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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horwath" data-source="post: 7871013" data-attributes="member: 6801299">Oh, well. Let's poke the hornets nest here...There was not a lot of women in battles in medieval period unless it was a last stand situation and you are going to die either way so why not have a wack with an axe towards the enemy.there are several reasons for it.1st, upper body strength, women have 40-50% less upper body strength and about 30% less lower body strength.now, while sword or spear is a great force multiplier, as you do not need a lot of power to cuts someones throat, you do need more power for faster attacks, and more power to penetrate gambeson or chain armour.Good luck with plate unless you have warhammers that require even more strength than swords or spears to use with any effect.now, there were above average strong women in history, and maybe they were soldiers, but they were very tiny minority.2nd.Due to human slow reproductive rate, women were much to valuable to be risked on a battlefield, unless above mentioned it was a last stand.Women can have a child once per year if we are optimistic on medieval standards and if we calculate that 30-50%(depending on sources) chance of dying in childbirth, no society can afford to risk women in battles.Men are simply more expendable in reproductive terms.Man can impregnate a woman(lets be very optimistic also, but calculate for giving time for sperm count to go up in numbers and not every "shot" counts <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ), every 2 or 3 weeks. ballpark figures.That still gives one man opportunity to impregnate 20 women in one year, if situation appears that more than 95% of men died in battle.Yes, until next generation grows up there would be problem with manual labor, but women could manage that lack of strength. But, what would end that society would be another attack from foreign power.Now imagine opposite situation where 95% of women dies: how many generation would be needed to bring back the numbers?</blockquote>

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