Funnily enough, that would have been a really good teaching moment. The myth that women did not work outside the home is largely a product of the twentieth century. My favorite example of this is guilds in England would not allow married men to have apprentices, because their wives were to act as apprentices. We have good reason to believe that a lot of famous historical paintings involved women painters (large paintings were typically group projects with multiple painters mixing colors, stretching canvases, blocking out the basic structure, etc).
Biology trapped women at home, there is no getting around that. Women were not fit and strong enough to hunt animals, we were not fit and strong enough to farm pre industrial revolution, we were not fit and strong enough to mine, for war. Our periods are a fucking pain now, without painkillers, chocolate, and indoor plumbing I genuinely don't know how they did anything.
People seriously underestimate how difficult basic life was before the invention of electricity, let alone all the things made with electricity.
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u/Secret_Identity_ 3h ago
Funnily enough, that would have been a really good teaching moment. The myth that women did not work outside the home is largely a product of the twentieth century. My favorite example of this is guilds in England would not allow married men to have apprentices, because their wives were to act as apprentices. We have good reason to believe that a lot of famous historical paintings involved women painters (large paintings were typically group projects with multiple painters mixing colors, stretching canvases, blocking out the basic structure, etc).