Abstract
This article has a twofold objective: first, to rescue the women's activity in the urban sector of services, usually very dull for the statistics, and second, to analyze the socio-economic and familiar framework of those women holders of small and medium family size businesses in the great city of Bilbao. Through crossing a municipal financial source (Industrial and Commercial Registry from Bilbao in 1895,) along with the Municipal List of Inhabitants in 1900, it has been able to locate self-employed women, actives to the eyes of Municipal Treasure, but remained hidden in population statistics, primary source for measuring the female labour force participation rates. As a result, we discover a significant number of women carrying on commercial business of all kind, as innkeepers, or in craft workshops, while sustaining their families well as support for their husbands or fathers, or since the loneliness of widowhood.
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