Roles Of Women In The Renaissance Era

The brave renaissance women were strong enough to conquer the world. Throughout this paper I will be talking about all the hardships women in the renaissance went through. Women in the renaissance era were not treated fairly. They were treated more like property than an actual human being. The topics disgust will be women themselves, their families, role of daughters, their marriage, what happened after they were a widow, their religion, their jobs, and the education they received. Although women’s lives were not treated with as much care as a men would be, they still got through it.
The life of women in the renaissance era did not have it easy. Their rights were very limited. They did even have the right to vote. It took many years for them to be able to. Once women were able to vote they would not neglect their home duties (Spruill ,1995).Compared to women today we are very lucky and worth a lot more than what women were worth back then. Women were treated more like property than like an actual human being. Women had no

Becoming a widow can happen to a girl more than twice. Girls could become a wife two or even three times (Women in the Renaissance and Reformation). When poorer womens husbands died, they were forced into basic work, like cleaning or serving inns. Bur for wealthy upper-class women, or royal women, they often took their husband’s position and ran the family and their kingdom. Queens could also take over the kingdom if the king had no male heir. Husband’s could also leave their male children to take over. Women were very controlled compared to women today. Women generally have way much more freedom. In the middle-class, husband’s left instructions in their will what their wives can wear and how they act. Widows always showed her grief throughout her clothing that she wore. Women wore black everything, and they also wore a veil, that is where the name widows peak comes from.(Thompson,