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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is a wife determined?  Are they infertile?  It doesn’t make sense that Esther was a wife (and fertile) but then demoted to Handmaiden.

Whoever earlier said Esther was raped, I totally missed it.  [/quote]Esther was demoted to Handmaid as punishment for helping the escaped Handmaids and poisoning the Commanders. If her husband had died of natural causes and none of that had ever happened, I think she would’ve been reassigned as a Wife. [b]I’m not sure how Wives are chosen initially.[/b] [/quote]

All I know is they have to be "virtuous"--no affairs, divorces, questionable occupations etc. But not sure how they distinguish between commander's wives and econowives, who may or may not be fertile.[/quote]

Econowives were already married, and living a virtuous life. Think SAHMs.  They weren't reassigned to a commander if they were raising kids, and living a good life. Definitely like a caste system.

Career women were punished, by becoming handmaids if they were fertile.  Marthas if they were post menopause or interfertile, but compliant.  Non-fertile but young were Jezebels. Noncompliant...hanged or worked the fields. [/quote]

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