Working Women in Medieval Times

Women in the medieval times performed different jobs. They worked on many jobs that could be done from their homes such as brewing and many more.Women are credited in beer's development. It was a woman who discovered beer. Beer brewers were mostly women up  until the medieval era. In the medieval era brewing was one of the housewife's frequent jobs, just like cleaning, cooking, and taking care of chidren. They suplied the families and others. This represented extra income for the house. Brides also brewed beer to sell in order to help with marriage cost. Another proffesion that women performed in the time was surgeon-barber in which women had the responsabilities to do eye surgery, because of the delicacy required for the work, removed teeth and collected blood. Women were esclusively who helped parturient mothers to give birth.