Agricultural Society OR Early Industrial Society; Which was more oppressive of women?

Question

Agricultural Society OR Early Industrial Society during the Agricultural Revolution (18th-19th c.); which was more oppressive of women?

It have been said in pre-industrial societies of Britain before the Agricultural Revolution, women played an equal role of bread winner whereas this role had become greatly reduced since the AR/IR. Could this change have been the main cause of gender ineqality?

Which was more responsible for gender inequality?

A: the pre-Industrial agricultural mode of production? or

B: the intensified mode of production during the British Agricultural Revolution?

Answer 1

Probably early industrial society - one reason being that women were robbed of birth control (see book by historican John Riddle: "Eve´s Herbs - a History of Contraception and Abortion in the West).  

The dogma of the mercantilist era was that many people were a source of the "wealth of nations", so women were forced to have more children than they themselves needed or would have had if they could have chosen freely.