What jobs were common for women in medieval times?

Answer 1

For most of the middle ages, in most places, most people, men and women, worked their lives through in agriculture. The men plowed and did heavier work, and the women tended the children and the homes, as much as they could, but men and women planted together, weeded together, harvested together, and tended animals together.

Aside from that, women did jobs they could do at home or in housing shared by women. One such house is portrayed in Shakespeare's Henry V. Such employment included making and repairing cloth and garments, working on carpets and tapestries, and so on. Women did not tend to be chefs, but they worked in kitchens. They helped prepare food, clean up, and organize things. They also tended cleaning for higher born people. One job they especially did was to clean and repair the clothes of high born women, and for a job like this they had to be especially trustworthy.

A lot of women went into convents, which represented an alternative to weary work an child bearing. In convents, they provided medicine and healing. They did all the cleaning and cooking they might otherwise have done. They raised crops, but were more likely than serfs to raise such specialty crops as medicinal herbs. They prayed. I see no reason why they would not have transcribed bibles, just as monks did, but they might have thought differently in the middle ages.

Some women were the wives of lords and kings. They needed special education and training because they needed to be able to take over their husband's jobs if times required it. There were a number of women who were sovereign monarchs and there were also a number who were noted tacticians. Margaret I of Denmark was one such woman, and Ethelfleda of Mercia was another.

Answer 2

What women did during the Medieval times was...

• they had to sew the clothes for men and women
• pick the crops
• feed the animals
• pick grass to put in the house for bed
• did all the house work
• did everything by hand
• weren't given the right to do anything the men did.
• did the washing
• weren't allowed to make bread

Thats all I know. Hope it comes in handy. :)

Answer 3

On farms they would work in the fields when it was light. They also did the cooking, weaving, spinning, taking care of children and little animals, and also being able to use herbs when someone got sick.

Some women worked as servants.

Some would become nuns, who took care of the work in monastries, but also produced wine and honey and took care of sick people.

The church tried to forbid women from doing work that requiered them to read, but women would often work with their husbands in businesses or sell things on markets. As cities became more important, some women became masters in guilds, often after a husband died or if she was trained by her father.

Since women were often discriminated against, most women in guilds were employed by masters, especially in the textile industry and the leather industry, but also in many other professions.

Also, women would also frequently run inns or be midwives.

Noblewomen were responsible for the girls put in her charge. Whenever her husband was absent, she would supervise the adminstration and going-ons in the estate. Some even let the defense of a castle or served as regent for their sons, if they were still young when they became lords.

Answer 4

For the most part, they were housewives, doing chores or helping out with their husband's business. There were also some opportunities to become a servant, and many women (particularly during hte Renaissance) became prostitutes.

Answer 5

Medieval women worked along side men in everyday life. They worked in gardens and fields, took care of the livestock, and carried wood for the fires.