Rower woman

Humorous drawing of rower women in Stockholm in their typical "weather hoods", preparing to battle the employed ladies from Dalarna and their fancy paddle-wheeled boats, published in 1855.

Rower woman[1] (in Swedish called Roddarmadam, literally: "Rower Madam") was a female profession in Stockholm, Sweden, from the 15th century until the early 20th century. It consisted of women who ran a form of early water taxi; rowing people between the islands of Stockholm, to and from the islands of the Stockholm archipelago, as well as to and from places around Lake Mälaren on the other side of Stockholm.

  1. ^ Allan Pred: Lost words and lost worlds Cambridge University Press 1990, page 69. Retrieved 2011-12-13