Women in the economy of Croatia and Hungary from a European perspective at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

This article examines the structure of women employment in Croatia between 1880 and 1910 in the framework of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Furthermore, it places the question in the international context by introducing data from Germany and France in order to prove that modernization and the employment of women in the modern sectors are connected. The more industrialized a country was at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the more women worked in the modern sectors. However, although modernization was more rapidly developing in Hungary than in Croatia, the differences found in female labour are not significant, except for the agricultural sector.