Talk:Women in Maya society

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This article sounds defensive regarding the place of women in Maya culture. Seems like the adjective "important" comes up in every sentence. The section on food is not even cited so who can believe it? And who knows if Lady K'wil was really "powerful". What kind of power did she have? It's not documented so it's just the writer's fantasy. I think the facts should speak for themselves (the archeological evidence not conjecture) regarding the role of women in Maya society and whomever wrote this should sideline their own blatant bias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.151.233 (talk) 06:41, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

Updating this page
I agree with the criticism of this article. It is in desperate need of citations. While I am at it, I will link this page to Mayan Textiles, because there is significant overlap between the topics. I will also add an additional section regarding Mayan women and their legal battle for collective intellectual ownership over the designs woven by their communities. These designs have been passed down through generations and have recently been targets for exploitation and piracy. This struggle of Mayan women for legislative protection over their designs is a fascinating intersection of indigenous resistance and neocolonial capitalist forces.

Dp153344 (talk) 09:26, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Time period
Without knowing much about the subject myself, the article is confusing: is it about women of Ancient Maya society, or present Maya women? It is important to separate the two because they are two different subjects. The former category belong to the study of Ancient Maya civilisation.--Aciram (talk) 00:14, 3 February 2021 (UTC)