Position of Women
►Widows were
permitted to remarry.
►Upperclass
women often were educated.
►Extended
family living was not common among the
peasantry; women worked in households and in town markets.
►At all levels,
however, women were subordinate to
men.
►Their most
vital social function was to produce male
children.
►Elder males
dominated households and males received
the greater share of family property.
►Political
positions were reserved for males.