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How did ancient egyptian women spend their hours during the day?

I can't find any site about them. Like there are sites but they don't have what I need. I need something like this:

8am the women wake up

9am they cook breakfast.

So on and so fourth. I need like a schedule of the ancient Egyptian women's days. I need it for my social studies school project...Which kills... So if anyone has a good site or just the answers up front I'd be much appreciated.

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    Dear God, your teacher is an idiot.

    Egyptian women were very busy.

    Many worked outside of the home.

    Because they were such large businesses, the state ran the breweries and the bakeries.

    Beer and bread, huge industries that took many people to run daily.

    Women also worked in textiles and weaving.

    Some women were professional dancers and musicians.

    Some were priestesses.

    Egyptian women had many rights, their own property, and could divorce their husband if they found him unsuitable.

    Different social classes produced different circumstances.

    The workers --- worked for a living, general labor, they lived in workers quarters, the men usually worked in construction, the women, as domestics.

    The middle class was pretty much like our middle class - where many woman played "Mistress of the house'.

    Whether a woman ran a household for herself alone, for her farmer husband and children, which of course included a lot of work on her part, or she was the wealthy wife of an architect and directed the household slaves and servants, or finally a priestess or member of royalty and never lifted a finger to do anything ---- schedules, responsibilities, and daily duties greatly varied.

    You cannot have a daily schedule because one does not exist.

    Do one of a woman who was a member of royalty had everything done for her!

    She woke up

    She ate breakfast

    She took a bath

    She had her wig done

    She had her make-up done

    See what I mean?

    http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/women_in_anc...

    http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/wom...

    http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptianwomen.html

    http://www.mediterraneas.org/article.php3?id_artic...

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    The same as the men. The ancient Egyptians viewed men and women as equals.

    Like men, women would wake early to do farm work, collect crops, brew beer, raise cattle, make trips into town to sell goods or buy goods. If the woman was noble, she'd likely spend her time strolling through gardens, feasting, and attending social events. The noble women and men did little if any hard labor.

    Yes, making children was a goal in life, but it takes two to tango. The first answerers don't realize that if women are having sex all day, they're obviously with a man. So, men must have been having sex all day too.

    The ancient Egyptian Triad("Trinity" in our modern terms) was seen as a Mother, Father, and Child. Although it was a life aspiration to have children, there was most certainly not enough time to have sex all day. The majority of children never made it to five years old, thus most children were given the same name(after the parent) to ensure that one who survived was named after the mother or father. You would see a family of five sons named Seti and seven daughters named Nefertari.

    That's beside the point. I just wanted to make sure you saw the first answers as barbaric trolling.

    ~~ ††MeryKheper††

  • 4 years ago

    they're the two seen equivalent to adult males, relatively legally. women individuals in historical Egypt ought to very own components, enter into criminal contracts, carry extreme status positions and get divorced, only like we can now. Inequalities have been based lots extra on social type than gender, like in right this moment's society.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    making babies.

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    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    Sex.

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