How did women contribute to the success of Jamestown and later to the

Initially in the settling of Jamestown, there were no women. Historian Alf J. Mapp speculates that perhaps women in the first group of settlers were not necessary. Popular views of the 16th century held that women were inferior to men and such work as settling a new land was not a woman’s job. But the idea that women were unnecessary for the success of establishing a colony soon was to be found erroneous.

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