i thought the Hajnal theory suggests the opposite?
Depends on whether stuff like female access to lands, right to inherit, and so on, would necessarily be something accompanying the different marriage patterns, differences in literacy, human capital, and so on that the Hajnal line usually seperates.
Most of Eastern Europe never even got to restricting women's inheritance right during the transition from the middle ages to the early modern era, like what happened in the West.
Russian Empire had a lot of female landholding, Kingdom of Hungary I know had equal inheritance rights for all children since to this day it's causing problems here in Slovakia with how complicated and divided ownership of some properties is (and also, from what I've read, there were even some religious communities here in the 19th century who explicitly limited themselves to just one child per family because of this, which caused them to quickly decline in numbers), and the situation in Poland-Lithuania seems to have been similar to the one in Hungary. The Balkans were probably different, but I'm not sure, I remember an interview with a Polish female Balkanist professor, who was enjoying the fact that the currently most valuable properties in Croatia, the seaside ones which get all the tourists, were historically seen as worthless and so were usually inherited by the youngest
daughters of the families owning them, so at least Croatia and probably other parts of the Balkans not controlled by the Ottomans for too long were like that as well.
A woman's kingdom: Women and the control of property in Russia, 1700-1861 Remember boyos that whamen were ohppressed in the past:soy::foidSoy:, in ways you can't even imagine and don't you ever dare to even slightly doubt it or look closer at what the past was like:feels:.
incels.is
For Poland-Lithuania and Ukraine, I also just found this:
Unlike the rest of Western Europe, in Ukraine the social status of women depended not on the social status of her husband, but on her own property status. The women’s legal status was regulated by the Lithuanian Statutes, which criminal and civil rulings enshrined the principle of equal rights for men and women. By ensuring the property independence of women and their right to inherit the land, the Lithuanian Statute thus legalized wives’ equal legal status with their husbands. It is also noteworthy that divorces in Ukraine at the time of XVI-XVIII centuries was considered a mundane procedure, in contrast to the rest of medieval Europe, and it took place not only in cases permitted by the church but also because of the lack of consent in married life and even because of the loss of trust and love or chronic illness of one of the spouses.
Therefore, noblewomen, regardless of their marital status, sometimes possessed huge latifundies and had a significant social weight in their lands. This fact was also noticed by Mikhail Litvin, who visited Ukraine in 1550. He wrote that “Tatar and Moscow women have no man's rights, but our women rule many men: some are running volosts, cities and estates, others are making a profit and even getting inheritance.”“ Although living under woman’s rule is a shame even in private house,” said Litvin, “they rule our fortresses, even those bordering on Moscow, Turkish, Tatar and Moldovan lands, which should have to been trusted only to the men of great courage.”
And according to at least this data I found, commie-era Eastern Europe is, to this day, the most "gender-equal", as feminists define it of course, society in history.
This index is based on gender ratios across four dimensions: (i) Health; (ii) Socio-economic resources; (iii) Gender disparities in the household; and (iv) Gender disparities in politics. Higher scores denote less inequality.
ourworldindata.org
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