But you could free yourselves, I guess, if you worked hard enough, but I certainly wouldn't want to be a slave in any circumstance. Now there is a slight difference in the way that men and women were viewed in Sumer than they're going to be viewed afterwards. It certainly is a patriarchal society. In a sense, it's run by men. That's what patriarchy means. It's run by men. But unlike civilizations that occur afterwards, women could basically have any job.