Women's role at Deir El-Medina

1. Women's status depended on? = male connection (marriage or relatives)

1.1. Women buried? they didn't have own tombs Buried - in husbands/ relative tombs

2. Jobs: - Servants - caretaker of husbands - entertainers; musicians, dancers

3. Marriage: - Monogamous (only 1 partner) - forbade adultery

4. unequal to men

4.1. Legal rights

4.1.1. Had little political power

5. Wife of tomb owner = most important

5.1. Depicted in art, such as paintings on tomb walls

6. Some of their legal rights - could own property (depended on their status) mostly royal - could initiate divorce - could borrow money (loans) -could be a witness in court - Could become Pharaoh