“’Who will hoe your farms for you while you have no husband?’”

“’Hamlet,’ I retorted, without thinking, ‘was old enough to hoe his mother’s farms himself. There was no need for her to remarry.’”

My understanding is that in most of the agricultural societies is hard “pick and shovel” type labor, women do the farm work, hoeing, harvesting, tending, etc. Hamlet if he had hoed would have been seen by the natives as less than a man?