12 Responses to “Women in Ancient Egypt”

1. zahraa Says:
   January 26th, 2006 at 5:21 am

   Really, i am happy that is i am egyptian woman. Thank you for your story about egyptian women. i just like to tell that is she always supporting her husband with an arm around his shoulder to say I am the one who push you to be that famouse and that strong. she is the first one who said behind any strong man there is a woman stronger than him may be she is his mother, wife, lover or his daughter. Any way she is the one who recharge his power and wisdom to leave what we have nowdays.

   Thank you Caroline,
   Regards

2. mary bernadette crowther Says:
   January 26th, 2006 at 8:20 am

   i,really enjoyed your story,facanating & very interesting.i wonder if i,would have have like being a woman in ancent egypt.wouldent it be cool if you could go back in time for just a day to find out.we would learn so much.best wishes,mary.b.

3. elizabeth Says:
   February 2nd, 2006 at 7:04 pm

   this was a very fascinating story to read. i am glad to hear that women in ancient egypt werent treated like trash. you know, something you can just pick up and throw away. they had rights. i feel much better now. thank you.

4. Miss. Daisy Stratemeyer Says:
   February 4th, 2006 at 11:48 pm

   Your piece on Ancient Egyptian Women was well written and appreciated. My five year old is very interested in “old stuff” as she refers to it. I am hopefully raising her to be a strong woman also. Your piece was a wonderful combination of her interest as well as my own. We are even going to try some ancient Egyptian beautification rituals. Thank you.

5. Carolyn Says:
   February 6th, 2006 at 11:11 am

   I agree that Egyptian women were unusual in the ancient world. It seems to me that I read that in the Hamarabi code that women were granted similiar rights. Also that the women of Ancient Crete and other prehellenic Greece had much more power then after the Hellens. Comment?

6. Alain Says:
   February 8th, 2006 at 10:20 am

   Hello Carolyn,

   well this is not really the right place but…
   do you still maintain the egyptian part of your website (the kunoichi one) ?
   I tried to reach you by mail some months ago but just had no answer.

   Best regards
   Alain Guilleux

7. Julianne Says:
   May 20th, 2006 at 5:23 pm

   Dear Caroline,

   I don’t know why you write “Though they were not equal with men, women…”. According to Merlin Stone, author of “When God was a Woman”, a heavily researched and well-documented book, it was the women in Egypt who had high status, and it was the Goddess who was worshipped as the Supreme diety - for thousands of years! This female dominance in society and in religion was only supplanted by the male-dominated religions much later during which time both religions held sway and women were still highly regarded. According to the book the Goddess actually reigned supreme in many lands,(under different titles because of the differing languages) for at least 7,000 years and possibly up to 25,000 years - a lot of years considering it is only now 2006(re: AD, etc.)!

   Also your text did not specify dates or certain time periods so it is hard to comment, (in other words you may be writing about a later, and thus more male-dominated time in history) but according to the book I mentioned it was a woman who was the first known human to make markings, or write, on a tablet, and in the family it was she who was the mistress of the house, not the man. (The period she speaks of is from 3000 BC onward until her status slowly eroded with the incoming male-dominated religions around and up to 1570-1300 BC).

   Thanks for listening,
   Julianne

8. Natasha Says:
   July 18th, 2006 at 12:02 pm

   I think this story is very ineresting and I would like to hear more!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9. Kelsey Banks Says:
   August 18th, 2006 at 7:05 pm

   I am really glad I found this site. I never really new anything about the Egyptian women. She had so much power and yet so little. I respect them. Mostly because in a way she was so much better of a woman than the woman of today. She kept herself clean and neat. She took care of her family;she made most of the money and if her husband could not go to work she went to work for him. She really was a great woman.

10. marissa ray Says:
    August 22nd, 2006 at 5:54 pm

    I loved the stories that they you wrote on here. but it was very sad when the pharoughs killed themselves and the cleopatras.

11. Martti Muukkonen Says:
    December 5th, 2006 at 8:32 am

    A good story but unfortunately with one major fault: with lack of notes and biblography there is no solid argument. It would’n have been a big trouble to add a list of studies from where the evidence is collected.

12. hunter b. Says:
    January 19th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    this was a good spot I’m doing a school project for school on acient egypt and this was a very helpfull rescource I appreciate the hard work put in to this page

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