I would say that the market revolution did a great deal to
decrease the role that women were allowed to play in society. The revolution caused
them to be seen as economically useless and as fit only for work that did not contribute
to the family's economic well-being.
Before the market
revolution, women and men both tended to work at the family farm or the family
business. They had different roles, but both were working in roles that were important
to the family economically (that kept the family fed and
clothed).
After the revolution, men started going outside
the home to work. The home was no longer a site of work that brought money or resources
in to the family. Instead, the woman's role was to take money that the man had made and
spend it (to buy food, clothes, etc). None of her work helped the family economically
(in any major way).
So the market revolution made women
seem less important and pushed them towards a more secondary role in
society.
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