Ancient Gender Division

1A. One cause of the gender divisions in the ancient world is belief systems. It is seen that commonly, ancient societies put their faith into male gods, whether it being multiple or one. In his essay, Hughes writes, “Patriarchy triumphed when the Hebrews developed monotheism. Hebrew women were excluded from access to the covenant of males in a religion that allowed worship of only one male god” (Hughes 13). This gave more power to males because they shared the same gender with the god they worshipped, which led to a division of the genders. These types of religions caused females to be separated from males, especially when they were often times not allowed to pray alongside their gender counterpart. This in itself is an example of the gender division, because females were given less rights. …show more content…
Modern developments have changed the way ancient history is now studied. Before, women’s history was seldom researched, limited to only a couple ancient societies rather than the whole world. Even in the 1900s when there was an increase in these studies, women’s history was still only studied in a certain time period. However, modern society developed with the influx of new feminists who shined more focus on women from every time period, every society, and no matter whether the ancient people were known to be patriarchal or not. These modern developments allowed ancient history to be studied more in depth with the inclusion of all