Abstract
One of the goals of the REFEMA research program was to try to delineate professions and professional skills according to the gender of their holders, as this distribution is not always as simple as it sounds. For the Neo-Sumerian period (XXIst Century BC), through examples from the Codex Ur-Namma and the general administrative records, this short paper tries to delineate male and female occupations. Dedicated to some new evidence regarding women at work, this paper also deals with professions for which gender is not immediately apparent and that are automatically considered to be exercised by men, while they could actually have been performed by women. Finally, it is observed that, during the Ur III period, women were able to perform occupations that one would not have a priori expected, as they were in most cases held by men.
