Women's Rights In Ancient Egypt

Without men in their life, women in ancient Egypt would not have been able to have any sort of social, legal, or economic power because men were always there to provide it. Women were able to own property, do what they pleased with it, make money for themselves, and have equal rights under the law as men. However, now that women had been exposed to freedom, they had to take credit for any wrongdoing or beneficial task that they did for the society around them. The perspective that citizens had concerning the women did not reflect the rights that women had.
Throughout different social levels within the Egyptian communities, the way women were perceived was by the class that they were in. Women in ancient Egypt had access to jobs and other forms of making money but the original class in which they born into was determined by their fathers. For example, women could not make enough money to earn their way out of the class that they were born into. These women could marry into a new class however,
Their husbands provided status and a consistent salary. Within any class women could make money, and this money could come from the properties and land that they inherited from their parents or the jobs that they had retained of by being dancers, servants, or merchants within the local economy. The majority of the property that women inherited was either from their parents or they gained from marriage. Women had the legal right to do whatever they wished with this property, but these legal rights were not always recognized. Though women were seen as equal to men in law, women were not defined by this. The way in which women were seen did not surround what power they did have and what they could do, but rather what they lacked and needed. These needs could be easily provided by the men in their life, making women dependent on