Women in the Economy: Life stages and contribution to household income DOCX

Title	Women in the Economy: Life stages and contribution to household income
Author	Frances Cox
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Women in the Roman Economy: Life stages and contribution to household income Looking at Roman society through a traditional elite lens shows women to be silent and passive participants in both social and economic history. This may have been the reality for elite families, but plebeian women would no...

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Women in the Roman Economy: Life stages and contributon to household income Looking at Roman society through a traditonaa eaite aens shows women to be siaent and passive partcipants in both sociaa and economic history ihis may have been the reaaity oor eaite oamiaiesr but paebeian women wouad not have had this auxury ihis paper wiaa aook into the epigraphicaa evidence oo work undertaken by oree womenr and how their work evoaved as their sociaa responsibiaites aatered ihrough this examinatonr wiaa aaso discuss how much income couad have been generated through work peroormed by womenr and io gender bias paayed a roae in women's income...