The Femme Sole

Thanks to the Femme Sole the women during the Middle Age had the opportunity to work; it gave the women the legal right to work. “The term femme sole, simply put, referred to women who conducted business on their own. The term's application extended far beyond its literal translation of "woman alone" or "single woman" to encompass married women who conducted their own businesses apart from their husbands” (Western Carolina University, p1). One example of this is in one of my previous post about “Wife of Bath”, I talk about Alison a woman who got marry five times and thanks to her Femme Sole status she could have her own business after her husbands died.