Women's Roles In Ancient Egypt

In accordance to written historical documents of this modern age, it can be seen that throughout the duration of documented artwork and written content that women have been forced to remained in a subservient status to men. The standard pattern follows, males are assigned the roles of protector and provider, whereas, women were assigned the roles of the domestic servitude. This pattern had been speculated on for various decades to discover the cause, and the main attributes have been summed up too, biological factors, religious ideologies, and the social customs of the time. Nevertheless, at the beginning of the excavation of the ancient world, it was believed that Egyptian culture would follow the same system of gender-based submission and
There has also been anthropological evidence that provide proof to the unusual circumstances that followed Ancient Egyptian culture that gave equal status to women in the form of notably, matrilineal inheritance, and a vast emphasis on the jovial sense of familial relations that prevailed over ethic purification.
As it would appear, the women of Ancient Egypt held the same legal rights as the men of the state, therefore, a woman could own their own properties and manage them as she was fit instead of losing them to her male counterpart later in life. An example of this would be the Inscription of Mes, that provided the proof needed to scholars that women were in fact equal as it courtroom act showed that women could manage their lands, institute their own litigations, and act as a witness in a court of law, which showed that women were free to take action inside and outside of the legal house without question. It
The murals themselves depict women standing next to their husbands to show equal status even in death, and at times, the women are also placed on a pedestal and seen as a more divine creature than the men in their lives both before and after death. As far as it can be seen there has been no archaeological evidence to show domestic constriction, and therefore, it can be assumed that daughters and wives of the time were free to live without the dominating influence of men. Unfortunately, there was one position that women were denied and that was the position of public office, although, there are surviving records that indicate that women of the time helped through correspondence in the Middle Kingdom. This was because position in business and government were passed down through the patrilineal system, meaning that it was passed from father to