What jobs did women or girls have in colonial times?

Answer 1

My answers:::Women and girls spent hour preparing food.They churned cream to turn it into butter. They dried fruits and vegetable and stored them in jars. This extra food helped feed families during winter. Women also made the colonists' clothing. They used animal fat to make soap and candles. They used pig hair to make brushes.

They worked at home around " A New England Town"

Other People Answer:During Colonial times, the women and girls cooked and were seamstresses.

Typically, domestic matters related to home and hearth were the domain of women. But if you mean "Jobs" such as ones that paid, you would have found women teaching school, nursing, cooking and so on.

Colonial widows were allowed to keep doing their husbands jobs. There were several women before, during, and after the Revulotionary War that continued the press shops (newspaper etc.), general store, farmer, tavern keeper. etc.

Other 'jobs' these women would have or could have held were midwifery (delivery of children & curing 'smaller' sickness), School dame (might or might not teach reading, writing, arithmetic but maybe stitchery, singing, spinning etc.) other 'menial' positions would be the maid, cook, seamstress etc.

Answer 2

They made clothes and cooked meals. They sometimes had to work in the fields or trade.

Answer 3

Answer

women had to do the house work and very rarely work in fields.

Answer 4

Women had jobs such as cleaning, cooking, tending to the garden, and taking care of the children. Girls Helped their mother as much as they could and servered meals to their parents.

Answer 5

they cooked and cleaned and watched the kids and did laundry and gardened.