~*~::{Reading Blog #32: Gender Roles}::~*~

Gender roles have many different effects on society, both positive and negative. In the renaissance period, also known as the Middle Ages, the men and the women had many different roles in society. If you were a king, you had absolute control over almost every aspect of life except for church. If you were a queen, you got all dolled up and and dressed up and you got to gossip with DA GIRLZ all day. If you were a nobleman, you devoted all of your worldly possessions to god and lived in a monastery with other monks and holymen to teach the children of things. The knights were protectors of the town and were the ones that would go off to war to protect everyone. If you were a peasant and were a man, you would be forced to work in the fields and farm, farm, and farm some more. They were not allowed to do much but farm and go to the tavern after dark. The women however worked as home-makers. They cooked in the house and made huge dinners for their men and watched after the kids. What I'm trying to say is that the role of women is equal to the work of men even though it is very different.