Oh, definitely.
Whether plowing the fields, tending the animals, carrying loads, she was to be his partner in every way.
I just listened to a sermon about how women treat their men in public nowadays...tearing them down rather than building them up.
I was raised to be a man’s “sidekick” from day one.
I was never treated as some feeble, inferior being.
Everything my dad did, I was expected to do....from baling hay, cleaning barns, butchering cows to hunting food.
I’m a very useful [if “oddball”] wife, now...LOL
[wanna see my wood shop tools or go “pop can plinking”?]
Most farm girls are raised that way.
We had no time for ‘the vapors’.
If a calf or foal was breeched, you had to get that thing turned around and outta there...in your best Sunday dress, if need be.
LOL
OK, that last is an amusing mental image! A serious situation though, no doubt.