Gender roles in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
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Gender roles in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
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Gender roles existed in Mesoamerica, with a sexual division of labour meaning that women took on many domestic tasks including child-rearing and food preparation while only men were typically allowed to use weapons and assume positions of leadership. Both men and women farmed, but in some societies, women were not permitted to plough the fields because it was believed to symbolise men's role in the reproductive cycle. Evidence also suggests the existence of gender ambiguity and fluidity in pre-C
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