The Role Of Social Inequality In The First Civilizations

In the First Civilizations, social inequality was expressed through everyday jobs, gender roles, and social hierarchy. Your job took up most of your day so although it’s not every second, it still has a large effect on every citizen. One of the most prominent inequalities was gender because once you left work and went home, it was still there waiting for you. Everyone in these jobs, boy or girl, was ranked on a social hierarchy that determined their possessions, how their life was lived, and even sometimes the laws they followed. Overall, inequalities were one of the cons that followed the agricultural revolution and have followed us to this day. Jobs in ancient civilizations determined a person’s status within the society. Typically, men that had positions in the military, political, or religious part of society lived an upper class life with the finest things, while slaves, the lowest class, lived a poor and deprived life. Even inside of Jobs
In the first civilizations, gender inequality was a major part of everyday life, though it tended to be favored towards men, patriarchal, rather than favorable to women, matriarchal. Women were considered subordinate to men and sons were considered preferable to daughters. In Mesopotamia, laws were even written to enforce a patriarchal family that almost forced women into undoubtedly following men. Not only were laws written for daily life, but also for the difference of the sexual lives of men and women. For example, if a woman who was married was caught sleeping with a man that wasn’t her husband, she could be drowned but a man can sleep with all his handmaidens. A man could also control the sezual lives of the wives, daughters, and sisters in their families. If a girl was sexually assaulted or raped, the victim was considered the girl’s father/husband rather than the actually woman who experienced it first