The gender wage gap: present since 1819...
The wages of a man in harvest is two pauls, or nearly a shilling, besides four pagnotte, or little loaves, each weighing eight ounces troy weight, and wine, mixed with one-fourth water, at discretion. A woman’s wages is one paul and three pagnotte, with wine. They heighten the relish of their bread with goat or ewe-milk, cheese, onions, and garlic.
Poli, Italy, 1819
Source: Maria Graham (Lady Calcott), Three Months Passed in the Mountains East of Rome, during the year 1819, A. And R. Spottiswoode, London, 1820
Further links:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxj8tg
https://archive.org/details/journalofresiden01call
http://www4.ntu.ac.uk/apps/research/groups/2/home.aspx/project/154085/overview/maria_graham_project
http://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/content/maria-graham-and-large-earthquake-chile-1822
https://www4.ntu.ac.uk/hum/document_uploads/75932.pdf
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13555502.2012.686683