read two different ideas about women: that they should be pure and holy like the Virgin Mary; and that, like Eve, they could not be trusted and were a moral danger and a moral danger to men. Such religious teaching led men both to worship and also to look down on women, and led women to give in to men s authority.was usually the single most important event in the lives of men and women. But the decision itself was by the family, not the couple themselves. This was because by marriage a couple themselves. This was because by marriage a family could improve its wealth and social position. Everyone, both rich and poor, married for mainly financial reasons. Once married, a woman had to accept her husband as a master. A disobedient wife was usually beaten. It is unlikely that love played much of a part in most marriages.first duty of every wife was to give her husband chidren, preferably sons. Because so many children died as babies, and because there was little that could be done if a birth was wrong, producing children was dangerous and exhausting. Yet this was the future for every wife from twenty or younger until she was forty.wife of a noble had other responsibilities. When her lord was away, she was in charge of the manor and the village lands, all the servants and villagers, the harvest and the animals. She also had to defend the manor if it was attacked. She was to run the household, welcome visitors, and store enough food, including salted meat, for winter. She was expected to have enough knowledge of herbs and plants to make suitable medicines those in the village who were sick. She probably visited the poor and the sick in the village, showing that the rules "cared" for them. She had little time her own children, who in any case were often sent away at the age of eight to another manor, "the boys to be made into men". Women, of course, were peasants, busy making food, making cloth and making clothes from the cloth. They worked in the fields, looked after their children, after animals.woman s position improved if her husband died. She could get control of the money her family had given the husband at the time of marriage, usually about one-third of his total land and wealth. But might have to marry again: men wanted her land, and it was was difficult to look after it without the help of a man.in Britain since long ago there ve been women who managed to change the march of history, those who were not afraid to struggle for their rights, struggle against prejudices. And we would like to tell you about the most outstanding women of Great Britain whose names have become inprescriptible part of its history.
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