Wage-Earning Woman - San Diego, CA - Murals on Waymarking.com

This silhouette sculpture depicts a young woman in a long dress and wearing an apron. The silhouette holds a real lantern and is surrounded by 3-dimensional objects- a washbasin, pots and pans, a bottle and a kettle.
The sign below reads:

"Wage-Earning Women

Women had more opportunities to earn money in Old
Town than in the Eastern U.S. There were so few women
that they earned cash from single men and other families
by doing traditional women's work: laundry, baking,
cooking and sewing and tending to children and livestock.
Women's wages were sometimes the only support their
families had.

Women were also land and ranch owners, but most wage-earning
women worked in someone else's home. Indigenous women with an
exceptional talent for cooking beef, beans, rice, stews, wild game
and pastries were valued members of the household.

Women were physically strong. They hauled and chopped wood,
lifted 30+ pounds of wet laundry or full pots, carried children while
working and walked long distances to fetch supplies. They ground
meal and flour by hand and stirred huge pots with ladles sometimes
as large as themselves.

Women complained that mosquitoes bit while they worked and
there was never enough clean water."

City: San Diego Location Name: Women's Museum Artist: unknown Date: unknown Media: painted wood with real objects Relevant Web Site: Not listed

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Date Logged Log User Rating   08/30/2016 Metro2 visited it