Women worked also before industrial revolution. For example there is a looooong serie about cloth production by the Romans https://acoup.blog/2021/03/05/collections-clothing-how-did-t... Most of that work was done by women, and [spoiler alert] he estimates that it was like 8 hours per day. HN discussions https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...