Wives were expected to obey their husbands.
Why is a trickier question, but most of it boils down to religion. Most religions rely on a firmly structured society, sharply defined by who has power over whom. There's God on the top, and then everybody else neatly in place in society like rungs in a ladder. And in that ladder women were placed lower than men.
There's no real reason for this that can be accepted today, but when it all started it was seen as self evident that this was the way things had to be.
in the "olden" days women were expected to obey their husbands, this was in their marriage vows, that has since changed during the 1950s.
their husbands, their husbands could do anthing to them basically and if they were not to obey they would be beaten.
Their husbands, because the wedding vows included the words 'I promise to love, honour and obey'.
there husband
The expectation of obeying the father was now passed onto the husband who could do anything to his wife including beating her.
They were expected to move out of their parents' house and move in with their husbands. However, husbands were expected to do the same. According to Germaine Greer's book Shakespeare's Wife, this raises interesting questions about where the unemployed 18-year-old Will and his pregnant wife lived after they got married. So strong was the prejudice against married couples living with their parents that Greer believes the newly married Shakespeares must have taken a tiny and cheap lodging on the outskirts of town.
Gandhi got married to a women called Kasturbin
Usually Frankish women got married around the age of 12.
well, medieval women got married, they wore dresses made of bear fur that was rare back then.
English women colonists could NOT own property after they are married. -APEX.
He got married to a women called Jane Burden in the year 1858
Indian women named Wootonekanuskd