We do know a little, however. Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard women as equal to men before the law. They received only a basic education, if any at all, and were subject to ...

Pope Francis has criticized the Church as 'too masculine' and several women have been placed in positions of responsibility ...

Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...

Female family ties were at the heart of social networks in Celtic society in Britain before the Roman invasion, a new analysis suggests.

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

Much remains mysterious about society in Iron Age Britain ... and not like good Roman women?” Cassidy said. “Julius Caesar wasn’t a trained anthropologist, and how much you can trust ...

Genetic evidence from Iron Age Britain shows that women tended to stay within their ancestral communities, suggesting that social networks revolved around women ...

But it does suggest that women had some control of land and property, as well as strong social support, making Britain’s Celtic society “more egalitarian than the Roman world,” said study co ...

Women in Britain 2,000 years ago appear to have passed on land and wealth to daughters not sons as communities were built around women's blood lines, according to new research. Skeletons unearthed in ...

But it does suggest that women had some control of land and property, as well as strong social support, making Britain's Celtic society "more egalitarian than the Roman world," said study co ...