Gender Equality In Ancient Egypt

Although many countries today have just accepted women’s rights and achieved gender equality, women in Ancient Egypt has experienced equal rights socially, politically and economically. The text Family will from Kahun dates back to 1800 B.C Egypt, it describes Ankhreni, a government official passing his properties of to his brother Wah through a will. Later on Wah, writes a will to pass on his properties to his wife when he dies. This enlightenment me to the role and status of women in ancient Egypt as they are able to own property. Considering England, one of the earliest country to modernise, had only granted women to own property in 1882 (UKParliament), it was unworldly that women in Egypt were able to own property in 1800 B.C. Social hierarchy …show more content…
Women in Egyptian society were granted with legal, economical and political rights that most women didn’t have in other parts of the world. Their role and occupation of women in Egyptian society was also not restricted to homemakers like that of Greece (Janet Johnson). In a male dominated political system in Ancient Egypt, women were able to thrive in jobs as supervisors, weavers and priestess. Socially women were granted with legal rights that protected them, in divorce the mother typically received economic benefits if her partner were to commit infidelity . Politically, queens of Ancient Egypt had major influence an empire (Joshua Mark 2016). Female kings like Nefertiti and Sobeknefru proved that political barriers for female that were not possible to overcome could be a reality in Ancient Egypt (Joann Fletcher 2011). Women in Egypt had the power to rule over a land that is mainly dominated by male in other parts of the world. The Egyptian society revered women and presented them equally with their male counterparts due to their contributions socially, economically and