SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Mesopotamian women in Sumer, the first Mesopotamian culture, had more rights than they did in the later Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian cultures. Sumerian women could own property, run businesses along with their husbands, become priestesses, scribes, physicians and act as judges and witnesses in courts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Generally speaking, though, Mesopotamian women had significant rights, could own businesses, buy and sell land, live on their own, initiate divorce, and, though officially secondary to men, found ways to assert their autonomy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Women in Babylonia like most ancient societies had few rights. A women role was in home and failure to fulfill her duties, as a wife was grounds for divorce. A woman who neglected her husband and the house could be drowned. If a woman was found to have committed adultery they could be drowned.