Social Status of Women (According to the Ethnographic data of Imereti)

In the pre-revolutionary period of the Imereti population, women were involved in family and partly agricultural activities. Women’s rights in the family were limited by the husband in resolving certain issues, only men did not interfere in female affairs. The woman was not entitled to choose her husband on her behalf. Her marriage was a family affair. Entering a husband’s family with her own property indicates a woman’s favor, which should be considered as an indicator of a rather high level of her legal property status. Also noteworthy is the fact that a widowed woman returned to her family and remarried. In old times, adultery was severely condemned, while man’s adultery was not reviled. Even now, the attitude of the population towards the unfaithful wife is negative, but it is often no longer considered necessary to intervene in the family conflict.