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

The middle class may have worked as teachers this shows they were well educated and would have been able to afford their education. -Source 4. The way they were educated shows in another way as well: Eleanor, Countess of Leicester, kept accounts for the king before, Simon, her husband rebelled. This shows that they were educated in this way as well. - Source 16

There was a very big difference between the rich and middleclass of women: for a start the rich did not have to work bas the poor and middle class did.

The only way for a woman would be able to divorce there husband was if they had bad breath, if they had an incurable illness or they could not leave normal married life. If a woman had an affair she would have had to of given her husband three cow and if it happened was entitled to leave her. If this did happen a woman would not have been given anything that was hers before she married and would nave been left penniless, as all her property would have become the property of her husbands as soon as she married. - Source 20 and source 3

In the Middle Ages women were considered to be without souls, like animals. In a society, which was so religion-based, it is not difficult to imagine what

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