Women were seen as in danger of getting distracted from religious righteousness by things of the world & needing to be reigned in.
Which genuinely was a full-time job when it required making milk & butter & ale & bread & all clothes etc.
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Indeed - he medieval housewife was also a baker, brewer and milk maid. But the (few) accounts we see re. other professions cloud this...
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...a chandlers or a smiths wife, for example, is (between child and home duties) also helping with the business.
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...hard work for the farmers wife or the chandlers wife (or the farmer, or the chandler!).
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