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Gender Discrimination In Ancient Egypt
RAWAN TAHA
HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

ANCIENT WOMAN OF EGYPT Unlike many women from different regions of the world, Ancient Egypt’s women have the same equivalence with men. They had a better status if not the best at that time, was even better than Europe in that era. In manuscripts found, Egyptian women would have enjoyed the same legal and economic rights, at least on paper. The problem in ancient Egypt was never about gender discrimination but about social hierarchy. You might not get to enjoy the same rights not were not born royalty but not because you were born a female.
Women in Egypt could almost do anything like any man, do not need a male representative to do or speak for them, they didn’t need male consent or authority even.

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