Women In Ancient Rome

Women are an important part in any society In a society where men do much of the hard work, women must stay at home and therefore become very important in social and private life. The main roles they play are the caretakers and the centres of the home. They are responsible to have children and provide children with basic knowledge and support. They mainly teach their daughters how to be wives and mothers. And then the daughters will pass on this knowledge to their children. Women in Ancient Rome were defined by the men in their lives and were seen as property to their husband or father.
Women in Ancient Rome were often viewed and treated as property and there was a big issue with gender inequality and discrimination. A woman was at subject to the authority if a man. Traditionally it was their father before marriage. At that point, authority switched to their husband, who also had the legal rights over their children. In any cases where bother her father and husband dies, she became the property if one of her husband’s male relatives. A father held the power of life and death over all children, though this power was rarely used. A father could also …show more content…
Although some Roman women were allowed more freedom than others, but there was always a limit, even for the daughter of an Emperor. Though some women were still capable of standing up for themselves. Some women were able to sustain a good job. There were records found of there being a few female doctors, clerks, secretaries, hairdressers, teachers, and the occasional fishmonger, vegetable seller, dressmakers, and wool or silk merchants female workers. But they were unable to be active in politics, so nobody wrote about them in the 1st century. Neither were they taught how to write, so they couldn’t tell their own stories. And they received only basic education. If any at