No they didn't.
Somali women back home who are nomads look after the goats and sheep, whilst Somali men look after the cattle, camels and horses. The duty of Somali women was also to set up and dismantle the aqal every time they moved destination which was hard work.
In Europe, historically men and women both worked on farms. Even today, women make up 50 % of agricultural labour in Africa and East Asia.
Women only shortly stopped working after the industrial revolution, and that changed after WW2.
Ah okay interesting. You're right. I was mostly thinking about Georgian and the Victorian period. Also, my people are city folk back home. My great grandmother, grandmother ect were housewives.
On top of all of that was the woman expected to do all the household chores and child rearing as well? Funny you didn't mention that.
So they had to help their husbands outside with physical labour?
Therefore women worked both out and in the house.
Men only worked outside of the home then?
I know about Somali nomad women being hard workers there was a part a
Footpath to east Africa in which Burton describes Somali women doing more work then their men.