Jobs of the 16th Century

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Women were very important to the economy of the sixteenth-century because without women farmers couldn’t handle all the farm work and industry’s would fail, but many people didn’t see that, so has women’s rights in the economy changed? A lot has changed for women in the economy the most common things that changed are that women can have an education and obtain any profession they want. “…and female employment was often menial and low paid.” (“The Life for Women in The 16th Century”). This is another change because today women get paid equally as men and sometimes get paid even more than man. One thing that hasn’t changed is that women today are still working hard as they did back in the sixteenth century.

Jobs in the sixteenth-century were hard to obtain, but many people found employment in agriculture. Others didn’t want to do hard labor, so they got an education and got high paying professions such as studying the law, the church, and medicine. Women, on the other hand, had mostly household or factory jobs. Knowing the history of the types of jobs available to those in the past allows those who are pursuing careers today to appreciate how much easier jobs are to acquire and how much better they pay.

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