The convents were closed and banned from accepting any new members, while the existing members were allowed to leave and marry or return to their families if they wished. In practice, there was often some difference in how the convents for men and women were treated. While monks were often evicted from their convents immediately, nuns were in practice often allowed to stay in the former convent buildings on an allowance for life, provided that they did not accept any new members. This was likely due to the consideration that it was more difficult for women to support themselves if they were evicted in the male-dominated society of the time. Another factor was that nuns often came from the nobility prior to becoming nuns. One example of this was the suppression of monasteries in Sweden, where female convents existed for decades after the reformation such as Vreta Abbey, where the last nuns died in 1582, and Vadstena Abbey, from which the last nuns emigrated in 1595, about half a century after the introduction of reformation. In England, Elizabeth Zouche, abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey and Cecily Bodenham, abbess of Wilton Abbey, were both given allowances along with their nuns, and in Sweden, the former nuns of Sko Abbey lived on state allowances as well as managing a school for girls.