I think its stretching a little to think Mulan has anything to do with horse nomads. The Tang dynasty (618-907) marked a great increase of female freedoms and the China's only Empress that excised ...

Elite women, perhaps princesses, played a crucial role in holding the Xiongnu, one of the first nomadic empires of the eastern Eurasian Steppe, together, a new study suggests. The Xiongnu, who may ...

And high status didn't mean sitting around having your portrait painted. Penelope weaves; we can presume these women were involved in spinning, weaving, making leather goods. Do that for hours a day ...