Women's Rights In The Renaissance

The women of the Renaissance were denied political rights and considered legally subject to their husbands. Women of all classes were expected to do the first and foremost the jobs of housewife. Peasant women worked in the outdoors with their husbands and controlled the work at there home. The wives of middle class shop owners and merchants mostly helped run their husbands businesses as also. Even women of the highest class attended by servants often engaged in the duties of the household. Some tasks they would do are sewing, cooking, and entertaining to others. Women who did not marry were not aloud to live by themselves. Because of this they lived in their male family or commonly associated with a convent.
A little bit of wealthy women at the time were able to break the bing and bing someone under their control to achieve at the least fame if not independence. Lucrezia Borgia is the daughter of Pope Alexander VI. As a pope Alexander VI tried to use Lucrezia as a leverage in his act of political power. To make his political thoughts he put together her marriage to Giovanni Sforza of Milan when she was thirteen in 1493. Four years later when he did not need Milan's
Like a young woman of her time, Juliet has a father who arranges the marriage to a young man of family and wealth. While other girls do not marry young because they must work for their families, fourteen is the normal age at which wealthy women are married. And, the father, like Lord Capulet, makes arrangements with a suitable young man, one who has a reputable name, position, and property. A dowry is paid to the new husband when the young couple are married. Women in The Renaissance were not treated with equal rights and for sure not able and freely do whatever they wish to do. The same goes for Juliet in her story. Women need a right for what they do and should have a