Women Role in Prehistoric Britain

The history text, “Women in Prehistory” challenges the notation of a women’s role. During the B.C.E women were characterized by fertility, lactation, or childcare; therefore they were left at home. From an insight perspective, these assumptions were made from a scientific retrospect. The evidence from the artifacts, among other things, will prove or will not prove this to be correct. Abstracted from Adrian Novotny's work states that women were classified as “Second-class citizens” in the vast majority of the world’s culture. In the prehistoric period omen were purchased on an open market as if they were any other property a man would own.

Women were undetermined in leadership, development, adaptation, and settlement. 99.5% of human survival was because of the gathers and hunters; the sexual division of labor was determined. Women gathered and men-man-hunted, for the most part. Many believed that women didn’t possess any particular skills or abilities men may have possessed, such as speed, endurance, or, as some feminists say, aggressive tendencies. The simpler matter was human reproduction. Venus, the goddess of fertility, was idolized because women of the prehistoric era needed to get pregnant. Women were looked at as a structure to make babies. If a woman could not produce babies, they were looked at as undesirables. Most of the women spent most of their lives either being pregnant, nursing, or primary caregivers for their children. Significant gender inequities persisted throughout the period, as women typically had more limited life choices, access to employment and trade, and legal rights than men.