For most of the year, a gendered division of labor prevailed in the village. The house and the garden were the domain of women; field work was the preserve of men. The chief exception came at harvest time, when both men and women worked in the fields. Even then, tasks were gender-specific. Men reaped the grain while women bundled it for drying and threshing.
Source: Nicolaes de Bruyn, The Harvest. Copperplate engraving (ca.
1620).
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