Women in medieval society played the traditional women role. They cared for the children, attended the livestock, and also cooked the food. When it was time to bring the crops in the women would join their husbands in the field. Just as rural women helped with their husbands' work, urban women assisted their fathers and husbands in a wide variety of trades and crafts, including the production of textiles, leather goods, and metal work, as well as running shops and inns. Women were thought to be weaker than men because of Eve eating the forbidden fruit,which caused men to be banned from paradise. Back then the role of women was decided upon biblical texts. This forbidded women from teaching. Women that did have power had very little direction that their lives went.
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https://www.bl.uk/the-middle-ages/articles/women-in-medieval-society
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