It is often spoken of the moment in which women "joined" the labor market, but the reality is that women began to work much before than it is usually explained. The narrative that female activity consolidated with World War I has imposed itself, invisibilizing centuries of female work.

On February 10, at 7 p.m., at the Ona bookstore (carrer de Pau Claris, 94), Mercè Renom will converse with Olympia Arango about the evolution of women's presence in the labor market, from guild organizations to the present day. Both speakers will reflect on the productive sectors that women have occupied over time, with special emphasis on their participation in food supply, and on the inequalities and gaps that continue to affect women's work today

The starting point will be the recent study Revenedores. Gènere i treball a Barcelona (segles XV-XIX), in which Renom demonstrates for the first time the existence of a mixed guild in the city of Barcelona, the Guild of Tenders Revenedors. Through Renom's research and the book Women and Money, written by Arango, several false myths about gender and work will be debunked from historiography and economics.