Small correction, in those days, women’s work is making thread. Not to say women didn’t cook, but that seems to have been a shared responsibility for all civilizations throughout history.
Note that I said thread, not cloth or clothes. Weaving and tailoring was often a man’s job, but making thread took a large part of the woman’s time. Though in 1679 the Spitting Wheel existed and that made making thread take a significantly less amount of time versus say a thousand years before when the Spitting Wheel didn’t exist and the drop l thimble was 12 hours a day every day for all women just to keep the family in enough warm clothes to survive. Depending on climate, of course.
Acoup.blog has a lot more on what history is normal women’s work in the day although realistically it isn’t much because those types of things weren’t written about in history. Still, we know enough to reconstruct and it had to have been that. It turns out women’s work is easy to figure out just because we know feeding babies had to be done by women (nursing) for the first couple of years and making thread is one of the few jobs that are compatible with having a baby around that needs to nurse at throughout the day. Once the baby was two you could say okay go with dad but by then women was used to doing it then there’s a good chance she was pregnant and couldn’t do a lot of the “men’s work” jobs that had to be done so she is left doing this women’s work things that needed to be done.
Small correction, in those days, women’s work is making thread. Not to say women didn’t cook, but that seems to have been a shared responsibility for all civilizations throughout history.
Note that I said thread, not cloth or clothes. Weaving and tailoring was often a man’s job, but making thread took a large part of the woman’s time. Though in 1679 the Spitting Wheel existed and that made making thread take a significantly less amount of time versus say a thousand years before when the Spitting Wheel didn’t exist and the drop l thimble was 12 hours a day every day for all women just to keep the family in enough warm clothes to survive. Depending on climate, of course.
Acoup.blog has a lot more on what history is normal women’s work in the day although realistically it isn’t much because those types of things weren’t written about in history. Still, we know enough to reconstruct and it had to have been that. It turns out women’s work is easy to figure out just because we know feeding babies had to be done by women (nursing) for the first couple of years and making thread is one of the few jobs that are compatible with having a baby around that needs to nurse at throughout the day. Once the baby was two you could say okay go with dad but by then women was used to doing it then there’s a good chance she was pregnant and couldn’t do a lot of the “men’s work” jobs that had to be done so she is left doing this women’s work things that needed to be done.