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decimalenoughlast Sunday at 11:54 PM0 repliesview on HN

You're completely missing the single largest source of domestic work, which was clothing. Spinning thread and weaving by hand are incredibly time consuming and consumed 40% of women's working hours.

Here's an overview by an actual historian, who estimates that women in a medieval peasant household worked 3,760 hours per year, which averages out to 80 hours per week.

https://acoup.blog/2025/10/10/collections-life-work-death-an...