Role of Women in Ancient Egypt
• Egyptian women had many rights in their
lives. The women and men worked
together and treated each other fairly.
Today society's view on women is much
different than in Ancient Egypt.
What Could Women Do?
• Egyptian women shared the same legal rights as men
did.
• A women could have control over and, portable goods,
servants, slaves, livestock, and money. She could also
divorce her husband, and bring lawsuits to anyone else
too.
• Women could also go out freely in public; and they were
not forced to wear veils.
• Not many women committed crimes, but there were a
few, such as tomb robbers.
They Didn’t…
• There were also • Women were also
certain things that sometimes divorced if
women did not do. the husband found
Such as they were out they couldn’t have
not literate. Every children. This action
one woman in 20 to was, however,
30 men could read or frowned upon by
write. society.
Important Aspects of Life
• Marriage was a very • Children were also a
important part of very significant part of
Egyptian life. It was Egyptian life. The
almost portrayed as children were named
an obligation.
as soon as they were
• A divorce was a very born so that they
private matter.
would have a name in
• If a woman became the afterlife if they
pregnant she became
highly respected in died young.
the community.
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