Did you know that "gossip" originates as a noun from the Old English term "godsibb," meaning "sibling in God"? A gossip was a woman who attended another woman during childbirth, that intellectual part of society was all that stood between women & unchecked maternal mortality.

1/ Sex is a division of labor (& nothing else). Women's work in Old English society was spinning, weaving, gardening, cooking, childrearing, caring for the ill & elderly, all of which was communal. Women in feudal societies retained preclass leadership in these specific sectors.

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