What was the role of women during the Second Ice Age?

Question

What was the role of women during the Second Ice Age?

Answer 1

There have been five major ice ages in the Earth's history.  Humans didn't exist until the most recent one.

So during the second (the Sturtian/Marinoan glaciation) women didn't have much of a role.  Neither did men.

Answer 2

Make the babies?

Answer 3

they were useless

Answer 4

Look up the definition of "pre-history".

Answer 5

Dunno dude.  They hadn't invented beer yet and the whole place was cold so there wasn't any reason to tell them to get something from the fridge?

Answer 6

Hitting men on the head with a d***o like object.

Answer 7

People during the Ice Age were hunter-gatherers.  Men did the hunting, women gathered plant food, nuts, berries, roots etc, and if they were near the sea they would gather shellfish, and perhaps go fishing, which in some societies is a female activity.  They would be responsible for preparing the plant food, shelling nuts, cooking roots and tubers in the embers of a fire etcThey would also probably prepare animal skins and make them into clothes, since making clothing was a female activitiy for most of history.  And of course they would be caring for the children.

Their lives were probably comparatively relaxed compared to the women of later agricultural societies.  Women in agricultural societies generally work very hard, tending the fields, picking crops, grinding corn etc, while women in hunter-gatherer societies tend to lead less exacting lives.  Agriculture is much harder work than hunter-gathering.