# A Servant — Women and Economics character guide

> A Servant in Women and Economics by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** servant

**First appearance:** 0002-women-and-economics

## Who they are

A generic servant figure used as an example in economic discussions.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_and_economics_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_professional_

The servant interacts frequently with the narrator, likely performing household duties and providing service.

### [Jean Ingelow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_and_economics_se/characters/jean_ingelow)

_social_

Jean Ingelow and the servant have limited direct interaction, suggesting a distant or incidental connection.

## In the story

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_and_economics_se/chapters/v)

Referenced indirectly in the context of slavery as a comparison to the sexuo-economic relation, illustrating how systemic conditions produce evils regardless of individual effort.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_and_economics_se/chapters/viii)

Referenced indirectly through the description of the 'cook-nurse-laundress-chambermaid-housekeeper-waitress-governess' as an example of the primitive combination of home industries.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/women_and_economics_se/chapters/xi)

Mentioned as an untrained, low-status domestic worker who performs cooking without the motivation of love.

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