Rural Buenos Aires, as many other regions of what constitutes Argentina today, underwent some radical transformations during the course of the nineteenth century. We here study San Vicente, a rural area where micro-family households were predominant, in order to explore two complementary aspects of the changing social environment. First, the possibilities women had of being the heads of households as well as the resources available to them to earn their living by different means. Secondly, how their position in society evolved during this period. Our main sources are data gathered from the register of inhabitants of 1815 and the National Population Censuses of 1869 and 1895, which we will complement with data from the economic census carried out in 1895. We will see that when competition intensified, there came to be fewer opportunities for women to head households or businesses.

农村布宜诺斯艾利斯与今天阿根廷的许多其他地区一样，在 19 世纪期间经历了一些根本性的转变。我们在这里研究了小户型占主导地位的农村地区圣维森特，以探索不断变化的社会环境的两个互补方面。首先，妇女成为户主的可能性以及她们通过不同方式谋生的可用资源。其次，他们在社会中的地位在这一时期如何演变。我们的主要来源是从 1815 年的居民登记册和 1869 年和 1895 年的全国人口普查中收集的数据，我们将与 1895 年进行的经济普查数据进行补充。我们会看到，当竞争加剧时，