Women’s+Roles

**Women's Roles**


In the early middle ages in Western Europe, wives of knights and priests often owned land. In the 12th century, Cathedral schools did not allow women. Women were expected to be wives and work at home. Older women taught younger women about house work. Girls usually managed a house hold at the age of ten. Laundry was a lot harder in the middle ages than it is today. Women also formed a majority of hired farm workers, and earned 60% of what men did. Women ran their own estates while husbands were gone. European women expected to swears oaths of heritage when they bought an estate.

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