What kinds of work did medieval women have to do?

Different classes of women would have done different jobs. The poor women would have worked because their husbands would not have been able to support them and their many children on his wages alone. She would have had so many children due to the high death rate because there was no cure for disease and there was no contraception. She would have taken any jobs she could find, for example gathering hay in a field and they worked with no shoes on their feet. – Source 0. Women would have helped her husband ploughing and even he would have been working for a farmer. She took her baby with her in the freezing cold. – Source 9. If she had of been a widow she may have taken over her dead husband’s job. This may have been a blacksmith, to do this job she would hav

Midwives often became skilled doctors and acquired many patients. Men obviously did not like this as the women were taking away some of their precious business- Source 7. Women also new a lot about disease and illness. -Source 21

Lots of women were very responsible and had extremely good judgement. People often came to them for advice. An abbess of the monastery of Whitby spent a lot of time studying the Holy Scripture and trained monk as well and these often became bishops afterwards. Source 2.

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