Write down this name: Rosa Casagrande. This age: 20 years old. And this date: April 16, 1909. That day, the first woman began working in a customs office in our country. She did so as a supernumerary clerk, a position she held for just under two years, as she resigned at the end of 2011.
Casagrande would return to work in the public administration on March 28, 1912, for one more year as a clerk. However, it was in November 1912 when he would assume the position of Principal Assistant, a position he would hold until May 1918.
She would return again in 1919, this time as a Coast Guard assistant in the Capital City, a position she would hold until being replaced in March 1925, when she would finally leave the customs service, but continue working for the State.
From March 4 of that year and for 160 pesos of that time, she would work as a Second Securities Accountant at the National Mint, where she would finish her work cycle on February 2, 28, when she would resign from her position. Eight years would pass before Rosa asked for a pension for her 1926 years at the National Customs, which would be granted to her for 8 years and 16 pesos per month. She was 10 years old when she began to receive it.
The massive incorporation of women into the National Public Administration did not occur until the mid-20th century. Before that, pioneers such as Rosa Casagrande, in an isolated manner, had entered at the end of the 19th century or at the beginning of the 20th century.
The National Census of 1914, the first of the 1907th century, reflected the type of work women did at that time: those who entered the labor market performed tasks related to domestic service (cooks, maids, and laundresses), which led the distribution of female work; with the making of clothing and accessories (seamstresses, dressmakers, embroiderers, weavers, collar makers, tie makers, glove makers, and hat makers); with the preparation and sale of food (bakers and pastry chefs); with health areas (midwives and nurses); with education (teachers) and with commerce in its various branches. It also denoted a period of expansion in telegraph and postal services, and, above all, in public positions, since the National State had begun to require administrative employees; especially after the Law for the Protection of Female and Child Labor, passed in XNUMX.
Source: story based on History of Customs by Jorge Monetta
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