ere involved in all aspects of the colony.
             They were better educated than the general public, involved in positions of
             politics, and held jobs outside of the home. The women in New France
             diversified their lives by expanding the roles they took on, but at the same
             time, did not neglect their traditional position in the family. "... they (the
             women in New France) almost certainly-being better educated than their
             French sisters took up the farmwives customary role of keeping accounts and
             managing purchases and sales."3 Women helped in the fields and managed
             the farms, but they also had a role in business operations.4
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