Women rights in

Egypt
How were women treated in ancient Egypt?

Women were seen as equal to men in Egypt, in ancient times it was different. When a higher leader in the
Egyptian hierarchy counted his peasants, Women were ranked lower than men. In this arrangement,
women were brought up to be completely reliant on their dads and older brothers, much as how peasants
were treated in the Medieval ages. Before women got married, they had to rely on their husbands for all
of their decisions while doing all of the housework themselves. Families of the husband’s employers
expected married Egyptian women to have children, especially males.

Married couples would frequently have children until they had at least two boys. For Egyptian women,
barrenness and the inability to have male offspring were grave misfortunes. Females who were the two
most well-known pharaohs in ancient Egypt were Nerfititi and Cleopatra. Nefititi was the chief wife of an
Egyptian pharaoh, Amenhotep IV. Nerfititi was known to be an active Egyptian woman in society, as
well as her children. Hatshepsut usurped the throne, she made trade the mainstay of Egypt’s economy.
Cleopatra VII was Queen of Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 31 BC, and its last active ruler. She is
a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian
Greek general and companion of Alexander The Great.