Treatment of Women
- Created by: GummyBear
- Created on: 09-05-16 17:52
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- TREATMENT OF WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
- PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY - men dominated everything, this had to be accepted
- ROLE: to support her husband and care for her family and husband as she was seen as his property
- IMPORTANT TO PRODUCE A MALE HEIR
- Unfair treatment at work - women paid less for doing the same job e.g. for reaping a man could get 8p a day whereas a woman would get 5p
- If they complain then they would face punishment
- Medieval trades' guilds - limited women's roles, barred from joining them, skilled job was usually unavailable for women, only allowed clothes making
- LAWS AGAINST WOMEN
- Not allowed to marry without their parents consent
- Not allowed to divorce their husbands
- Couldn't own property of any kind unless they were widows
- Could not inherit land from their parents if they had any living brothers
- MARRIAGE
- Girls from richer families tended to marry earlier
- Poorer families needed workers
- RICH - usually married to someone as a political gesture or because it was an advantage to the family
- GIRLS HAD NO CHOICE OVER WHO THEY MARRIED
- MARRIED THEY CAME UNDER THE CONTROL OF THEIR HUSBANDS
- Girls from richer families tended to marry earlier
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