History of women in forestry and forest law pre 1700

I'm looking for books, websites, resources on women in land, agriculture, and forest law before 1700. Payment of taxes, professional positions held, awards, capacities, etc. Art also.
Particularly looking for history in the middle east, China, Brazil. Most historical forestry law research is centered around Europe, and of course, mostly men (Chaucer).  
Thank you!

Hi Rob and welcome to Permies!
Interesting subject and as you say, maybe difficult to obtain evidence of. I suspect most women in agriculture were labourers like most men. My own family include hop pickers from Kent in the UK. I may have a relevant newspaper clipping from the 1860s, but nothing before that. Have you tried parish records? They often give occupations, but maybe not as early as before 1700. I suspect art may be your best source of information. I'm sure I've seen a drawing online of medieval coppice workers that included women (can't find it now of course - I think I was looking up wheelbarrow history at the time) Good luck.

Welcome to the forum!

This is the best I could find for before 1700s:

Maria Sibylla Merian

https://www.osgf.org/blog/2020/3/4/historys-greatest-women-botanists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_in_the_Heritage_Floor

Here is a thread about "Women of Permaculture":

https://permies.com/t/27734/women-permaculture

I made a list here:

https://permies.com/t/176304/Honor-Women-Permaculture#1941556

Rosemary Morrow:

https://permies.com/w/leadership
https://permies.com/wiki/rosemary-morrow
https://permies.com/wiki/40727/Earth-User-Guide-Teaching-Permaculture

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/article/11-women-who-made-wilderness-history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_in_forestry

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2018/03/27/wonder-women-agriculture

Rob Fam wrote:I'm looking for books, websites, resources on women in land, agriculture, and forest law before 1700. Payment of taxes, professional positions held, awards, capacities, etc. Art also.
Particularly looking for history in the middle east, China, Brazil. Most historical forestry law research is centered around Europe, and of course, mostly men (Chaucer).  
Thank you!

Welcome to Permies!

I found the image I was thinking of - not online, but on the cover of a book on woodland crafts. Showing coppice workers including women. One is using a wheelbarrow, pulling, not pushing it, which is why I remembered it. It probably doesn't help the OP very much, but I thought it was pretty interesting.
The image is by Irene Hawkins c. 1948 after aquatints from W H Pyne's Microcosm 1808