Discuss biases related to women in agrarian society I the 16th and 17t

1.	Discuss biases related to women in agrarian society I the 16th and 17th centuries.
Answer» Solution :(i) Women in agrarian SOCIETY worked with men in fields as artisans, domestics, in elite homesand even went to markets if necessary. (ii)Mensurating women for instance were not allowed to touch the potter.s wheel in western India or enter the groves where the betel-leaves were grown in Bengal. (iii)The more COMMERCIALISED the product,the GREATER was the demand on women.s labour to produce it . They were viewed as child bearers in a society dependentone labour . Highmortality rates among women owing to malnutrition, frequent pregnancies and death during child birth were prevalent. (iv)Women in peasantandartisan communities unlike among higher groups were bought. Marriages in many rural communities required paymentof bride- price. (v) Women being LOOKED UPON as child bearing resource. There was growingfear of losing the women and they were kept under strict control and vigil by male members of thefamily and community. Draconian punishments were inflicted on women suspected of infidelity while male infidelity was not always punished.

Discuss biases related to women in agrarian society I the 16th and 17th centuries.