AZTEC WOMEN IN WORKFORCE

DOMESTIC DUTIES

• Sweeping
• Educating their daughters
• No childcare

DOMESTIC DUTIES

• Cooking food
• Making clothing

WOVE CLOTHING

• Ichtli fiber from maguey plant
• Cotton fiber

16TH CENTURY

• Merchants and vendors
• Farm produce, wild herbs, prepared foods, cloth etc.
• Some became wealthy
• Marketplace administrators, settle trade disputes, fair pricing

HEALERS AND MIDWIVES

• Disease
• Childbirth
• Herbal medicines
• Massage therapy

SWEAT BATHS

• Men and women visited sweat baths
• Women visited before and after childbirth
• Success reproduction

HEALERS

• Healers were highly skilled using herbal medicines
• 60% are considered effective treatments
• Western bio-medical standards

SPANISH

• Spanish were impressed by the midwives techniques
• Wanted the to convert to christianity
• Saw their practices as witchcraft
• Persecuted and Prosecuted healers as witches

EQUALITY

• Owned homes
• Land
• Moveable property
• Inherited assists equally

IMPACT

• Food, clothing, healthcare essential
• Enchanted human survival
• Possible for the population to grow
• Valley of Mexico population increased over the centuries

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www2.ivcc.edu/gender2001/Aztec_Women.htm
• http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/home/aztec-women