two very interesting posts. And thanks for the reading suggestions Lady Kiya.

It's important to keep in mind that although Egyptian women enjoyed freedom far superior to other women in other societies their status does not resemble that of women in certain civilizations of today. According to Joyce Tyldesley in Daughters of Isis before all else women had to be fertile in order to be productive and "complete". Their main areas of work were those related to the keeping of the household and children, for like previous posts said: as servants in other households etc. Although there were no laws that made forbidden for women to take part in *just to give an example* a certain business, they usually only did so in representation of male relatives or relations. So, Egyptian women had a relatively high level of freedom in certain areas and were not as restricted by law as their contemporaries, but still they were socially restricted in the roles they were to fulfill.