1. Women could not exercise much personal sovereignty
2. social structure defined women in relation to their families. Society viewed a woman as her father's daughter or her husband's wife and not as an autonomous individual.
3. Women did not often work outside of the house, but some held jobs selling wares they had created or worked as tavern keepers
4. 18th century introduction of the Code of Hammurabi gave women the ability to divorce and own property under certain circumstances, even though the code also treated women as property.
