Would any woman have a job during the early 1700s?

Yes, of course, women had to work in order to survive, just like they do now.

A great many women would have worked as domestic servants, which wsa the commonest form of employment for women. A great many were employed in the textiel trade, and a lot of women would have been seamstresses. Spinning was another way for a woman to earn a living, so common was this as a female occupation that the word 'spinster' was still used until quite recently to indicate a single woman. women did keep shops, and it would not be unusual for a woman to have a pie shop. Women worked at various other trades, though some were barred to women.

One of the most prestigious jobs for a woman was as a midwife. The midwife was a highly respected person in the local community, and was often paid quite a good salary.

Businesses in those days were usually family affairs, and a wife would often be involved in the family business, whatever it might be. Wives ran businesses while their husbands were away, like for instance Deborah Read Franklin ran all Benjamin Franklin's business concerns while he was away in Europe. And many widows continued to run businesses after their husbands died. For instance, Betsy Ross, who ran a highly succesful upholstery business with her husband, continued to run it for another 50 years after his death.

An educated woman might work as a governess, teaching girls in well-off families, or she might be a teacher in a fashionable boarding school for girls. Some women were employed as teachers in 'dame schools' which offered an elementary education to poor children.

P.S. Dr Quinn, medicine woman(mentioned in an answer above), is set in the mid-1800s, not the early 1700s, and there certainly were women doctors in the USA at this time. Dr Quinn may be a fictional character, but real women doctors certainly did exist at this period.

Actually, there are 'real' stories of women managing businesses then - not many, but there are some. Hester Bateman was an 18th-century silversmith that took over her husband's business after his death. There is quite a bit of debate as to whether she ever actually made the silver but the objects bear her mark and there is no debate that she was managing the business entirely by herself. Probably less controversial for her to be the manager than getting her hands dirty in the back. The thinking was probably more along the lines of why work if you don't have to but if a woman had to to support herself and her children then it was understood and it certainly happened.

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It was probably rare, as women were expected to be the house wives. Care for the children, the home, the food, and the chores in general.

She could probably have a career dealing with children, textiles and clothing, food service, prostitution or social administration. Of course, the marketplace has always encouraged freedom, so she could be a merchant if she could defend her territory.

More people worked in agriculture back then, but people still manufactured the same things that the industrial revolution automated, it was just more labour intensive.

probably not, except for on that show "Dr Quin medicine woman"

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