At the turn-of-the-century, very few women work outside the home. The traditional jobs for professional women are teaching, nursing, and secretarial work. The majority of working class women in Charlotte work in a laundry or in textile mills. Click [2] to see the different kinds of occupations women had according to the 1908 Charlotte City Directory followed by the number of Charlotte women in that profession and a brief definition. * At this time in the United States, it was more common for men to work as secretaries and wait tables.

Nurses from Presbyterian Hospital [3]

Music Professor at Elizabeth College [4]

Dr. Annie Alexander  [5](North Carolina's first woman doctor)

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