The role of the women involved them cooking, cleaning, tending their gardens and even working the fields with the men when need be.
Men !
Women were expected to influence their husbands and children to be good americans.
Under sharecropper agreements, women were often expected to contribute significantly to the labor required on the farm, including planting, tending, and harvesting crops. They typically managed household duties alongside agricultural work, often while also caring for children. Sharecropper agreements did not formally recognize women's contributions, leading to their labor being undervalued and undercompensated. This dual burden of work often left women in precarious economic situations, reliant on the agreements made by male family members.
produce children...............
No, but they expected the men to fight.
cooking, cleaning, and tending the garden
In sharecropping agreements, women were often expected to contribute to the labor on the farm alongside men. They were responsible for tasks such as planting, weeding, and harvesting crops, as well as domestic duties in the household. Additionally, women typically had little control over the crops they grew or the profits generated from their labor.
Women were expected to keep the homefront running.
- Women are expected to get married - Women are expected to have children especially boys to be an army - Women are expected to keep quiet when men are around and they are not allowed to interrupt them when men are having a conversation
Women were expected to obey all their male family members.
They were expected to take over men's jobs.
Between 16 and 20 it was expected for young colonial men and women to marry.
They were expected to work in factory jobs.
Men !
Women were expected to influence their husbands and children to be good americans.
Under sharecropper agreements, women were often expected to contribute significantly to the labor required on the farm, including planting, tending, and harvesting crops. They typically managed household duties alongside agricultural work, often while also caring for children. Sharecropper agreements did not formally recognize women's contributions, leading to their labor being undervalued and undercompensated. This dual burden of work often left women in precarious economic situations, reliant on the agreements made by male family members.
produce children...............