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by watwut 3 hours ago
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.

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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.