‪L’emploi et la protection sociale dans l’agriculture au filtre des rapports de genre‪. Les salariées agricoles aux xix e et xx e siècles

?The aim of this article is to examine the links between women?s access to different kinds of welfare, employment and wages in the agricultural sector. This research is based on administrative sources (for instance statistical surveys on agriculture, data about welfare institutions) and on some farms? accounts. From 1850 to 1918, women were massively employed in agriculture but social aid was the only kind of social protection they could get. During the interwar period, female workers became affiliated to social insurances but their financial contribution was disproportionate to their wages. After the Second World War, agricultural female workers? wages increased but women?s employment rate in agriculture decreased as mechanization became widespread. Increasing child benefit combined to a public allowance granted to households with only one salary ? ?(allocation de salaire unique)? ? led most women to quit their job in the agricultural sector.?