• Families increase and the role of women becomes important.

• Most families were farmers and they benefit from new farming technology such as fertilizer and irrigation​

• New produce such as sweet potatoes and corn

• Better nutrition means more stability and desire to settle and grow families

​Life improved for most Chinese

​- Play a significant role in the household
- Watch over children and their education
- Financial mangers of the home
- Some hold jobs as midwives or textile workers.

Women in Qing China