ABSTRACT
Feudalism established the policy of subjugating women to the general levy of work along with male serfs and "free-laborers." Separate "women-houses" were maintained on some of the estates for unmarried women serfs who had no other place to live. Free peasants who had succeeded in establishing separate households expected their women to take part in the heavy farm work. The economic role of women continued to be important during the war. The agrarian occupations of women remained largely unchanged until the time of industrial development, which occurred rather late in Hungary. Significant involvement of women in industrial occupations did not begin until light consumer industries developed – a process that began in Hungary only around the turn of the twentieth century.
