Two things related to comments earlier in the thread
1. Saw a documentary about arranged marriages and love matches in Indian society (including Indian in Britain) a little while back. There was one love match that had failed because they came from different backgrounds (can't remember the details) but it was the details that ended it. They couldn't agree on whose tradition/belief to use in things like cooking, house layout etc.
2. Skill sets - Guilds allowed wife and kids to work in Guild registered husband's business without having Guild accreditation themselves. Also, a woman's skill was her dowry. Wasn't always taking a skill useful to her husband's business, sometimes it was running her own business alongside. Either way, she was of economic importance. (Later with factories, women lost that economic importance particularly if at home looking after kids but making no money.)
1. Saw a documentary about arranged marriages and love matches in Indian society (including Indian in Britain) a little while back. There was one love match that had failed because they came from different backgrounds (can't remember the details) but it was the details that ended it. They couldn't agree on whose tradition/belief to use in things like cooking, house layout etc.
2. Skill sets - Guilds allowed wife and kids to work in Guild registered husband's business without having Guild accreditation themselves. Also, a woman's skill was her dowry. Wasn't always taking a skill useful to her husband's business, sometimes it was running her own business alongside. Either way, she was of economic importance. (Later with factories, women lost that economic importance particularly if at home looking after kids but making no money.)