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sup /his/? I've been watching history lectures on The Great Courses Plus and wanted to talk about some of the stuff I learned.
Specifically I wanna talk about the status of women in history compared to now. I've watched several series including one dealing specifically with daily life for different ancient peoples. The more I learn the more it becomes apparent that, up until about the 20th century, women were basically property to be bought and sold. In fact, it was her father that would pay to marry her off. Going back to the beginning of written history, marriage contracts were little more than sales agreements. A girl's father would agree to pay a man "so-much" to take his daughter with a penalty if she can't produce a male heir. The practice of dowry stayed with us in western culture right up until the 20th century. Many eastern cultures still practice it.
Than modern medicine comes along and shifts the entire dynamic. No longer are women considered a liability. As soon as childbirth stopped becoming the primary cause of death for women everything changed. You see the suffrage movement, women gaining rights in the workplace and most recently the feminist movement. In just a century women have gone from being baby machines that you have to pay to get rid of, to the equal of men.
Funny how we got here.
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