A widow is a woman whose spouse has died. A man whose spouse has died is a
widower. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed
widowhood or (occasionally) viduity..]]The social status of widows has
been an important social issue, particularly in the past. In families in
which the husband was the sole provider, widowhood could plunge the family
into poverty, and many charities had as a goal the aid of widows and
orphans (often, not children without parents, but children without a
contributing father). This was aggravated by women's longer life spans,
and that men generally marry women younger than themselves, and by the
greater ease with which men remarried.
However, in some patriarchal societies, widows were among the most
independent women. A widow sometimes carried on her late husband's
business and consequently accorded certain rights, such as the right to
enter guilds. More recently, widow
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