The Importance of Female Labour in Agriculture

The plough was important, but not because it suppressed demand for female labour in the fields. The emergence of inherited wealth amid insecurity encouraged patriliny. And as these societies flourished, they built religions which sanctified female n on a recent trip to morocco,. i realize another reason why we might have been misled by the ethnographic atlas. Hiking through the atlas mountains, i was surprised to see village women tending goats and taking cattle to water.