Using Transkribus to Trace Women's Labour in Historical Newspapers

What did women's work look like in late 19th- and early 20th-century Estonia — and how was it advertised? This project uses Transkribus to systematically transcribe and analyse job advertisements across Estonian-, German-, and Russian-language newspapers from 1886 to 1939, building a comparable dataset that reveals the segmentation, framing, and evolution of women's wage labour over half a century of social and political upheaval.