WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Spartan women had more rights and enjoyed greater autonomy than women in any other Greek city-state of the Classical Period (5th-4th centuries BCE). Women could inherit property, own land, make business transactions, and were better educated than women in ancient Greece in general.

Detailed explanation-2: -Unlike other city-states from Ancient Greece, in Sparta, women were not mainly responsible for domestic duties such as cooking, producing clothes, and housekeeping. Instead, these tasks were carried out by the serfs, the Helots. This explains in part why Spartan women had the time to enjoy more freedoms.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Spartan ideology, the primary role of adult women was to bear and raise healthy children. This focus on childbearing was likely responsible for the emphasis on physical fitness in Spartan women, as it was believed that physically stronger women would have healthier children.

Detailed explanation-4: -Unlike other Greek women, Spartan women had equal rights with men, except for voting rights. Since men were in the military and often away from home, the women had full authority over their households. In 404 B.C. the Spartan army was able to conquer Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

Detailed explanation-5: -Men would be elected to be kings or ephorate of the government and it would be changed very often. Sparta women’s main role was bear strong and heathy children, to do that women needed to keep fit and exercised a lot. Spartan women could have their own lands and stood up for themselves.