Comment by watwut
5 hours ago
Women were working fields and were working with farm animals too. They did not done work that required physical strength unless they had no choice, but that does not mean they did not "worked fields".
Second, work being split by gender does not matter here. Women are, by definition, people too. And weaving, sewing, candles crafting were all literal necessity. A weaving woman would sell or exchange results of her work if she had an excess of it. They were not bored SAHM hobbies they way they would be now. This was economic activity just like any other.
The point is that the data we have is on men's work. No one said that women were bored SAHM hobbies. Just that pointing out extra tasks that need to be done in addition to the record we have of men working 150 days a year doesn't make much sense when that additional work wasn't done by men.
And I am saying that going by available historical records, you are plain wrong.The additional work was done by men too. Conversely to women worked fields", we have plenty of records of men doing work outside of fields.
We have records of both.
Weaving was very much women's work. There are some exceptions that prove the rule, but society's labor expectations were extremely delineated along gender boundaries for adults in the middle ages. There's so many linguistic examples of this persisting to today. Another example being "spinster", ie. that an unmarried adult woman was expected to spend her time spinning thread.
And we don't have nearly the same amount of detail in women's work. That's why even today it's referred to as invisible labor.