Women were expected to obey the will of their father, then their husband, and then their adult son in old age. However, it is known from contemporary sources that there were many deviations to this rule, especially in regard to mothers over their sons, and empresses who ordered around and openly humiliated their fathers and brothers. Women were exempt from the annual corvée labor duties, but often engaged in a range of income-earning occupations aside from their domestic chores of cooking and cleaning. COUNT 5
QSN1 Which gender was exempt from performing the yearly corvee labor duties? ANS1 Women QSN2 What emotional state would empresses commonly place their immediate family members in? ANS2 openly humiliated QSN3 What type of occupation did women commonly take part in? ANS3 income-earning QSN4 Who were women obligated to obey in their old age? ANS4 their adult son QSN5 Which parental figures often avoided the common familial rules? ANS5 mothers