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Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you are saying peasant men had serious power disparaties over peasant women then you are right, the two are not progressing at the same rate; women have progressed faster.

For modern 'peasants' both work bottom tier jobs at the same wage; minimum. And women have better parental rights, so even if they had started at the same base level women have progressed faster.

You have a very romanticized (read: not accurate) view of the past:

Originally Posted by Divorce in Medieval England: From One to Two Persons in Law

Given the centrality of child support and custody to modern disputes, what is most astonishing about the medieval records of divorce is that they do not echo these aprenhensions: the court documentation rarely even acknowledges the existence of children.
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The overriding assumption here is that there is no evidence of custody award in the event of a divorce, because custody automatically went to the father.

Women in medieval times were also disadvantaged economically, so "both work bottom tier jobs at the same wage" was not in fact true:

Originally Posted by https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval-england/medieval-women/

Within a village, women would have done many of the tasks men did on the land. However, they were paid less for doing the same job. Documents from Medieval England relating to what the common person did are rare, but some do exist which examine what villages did. For reaping, a man could get 8 pence a day. For the same task, women would get 5 pence. For hay making, men would earn 6 pence a day while women got 4 pence. In a male dominated society, no woman would openly complain about this disparity.

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In medieval towns, women would have found it difficult to advance into a trade as medieval guilds frequently barred women from joining them. Therefore, a skilled job as recognised by a guild was usually out of reach for any woman living in a town. Within towns, women were usually allowed to do work that involved some form of clothes making but little else.

On top of all that they were also disadvantaged in many other ways:

Originally Posted by https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval-england/medieval-women/

The law, set by men, also greatly limited the freedom of women. Women were

not allowed to marry without their parents’ consent
could own no business with special permission
not allowed to divorce their husbands

could not own property of any kind unless they were widows

could not inherit land from their parents’ if they had any surviving brothers