Question

The picture shows medieval peasants.

Painting of medieval peasants hard at work.

What does the picture reveal about the work of peasant women?

Peasant women and men had very separate roles.
Peasant women mainly worked inside the home.
Peasant women mostly assisted men with their work.
Peasant women worked as hard as men.

Answer 1

Peasant women worked as hard as men.

The painting shows women doing heavy outdoor field tasks alongside men (harvesting, carrying, threshing), indicating they shared much of the same hard labor rather than staying only in the home or having wholly separate roles.