During the Middle ages women played a large role. Peasant women had many domestic responsibilities, including caring for children, preparing food, and tending livestock. During the busiest times of the year, such as the harvest, women would join their husbands in the field to bring in the crops. Women often participated in vital cottage industries, such as brewing, baking and manufacturing textiles. Women would also use a distaff for spinning flax and wool. Women living in towns had similar responsibilities to peasant women in the countryside. Just as rural women helped with their husbands' work, urban women assisted their fathers and husbands in a wide variety of trades and crafts, like helping with the production of textiles, leather goods, and metal work, as well as running shops and inns.
They were expected to take care of the house and also the cattle if any. To bare children and also take care of them if they lived through childbirth. In this society many women became nuns to avoid the stress of childbirth. As many women were married off as teenagers. They were not allowed to be educated especially peasants but an Aires or princess was. These rules were extremely hard for midieval women to obtain power.
https://www.bl.uk/the-middle-ages/articles/women-in-medieval-society.
