A big sweep of history to tackle, and a very wide brief, so it is not surprising that the treatment is often general rather than particular. One surprising factor to emerge is how medieval preachers used to lecture women regularly on how to handle and even feed their babies - they were particularly hostile to mothers taking a child into bed with them, apparently fearing that it would suffocate.
Female labour was less rare than we might think, and women were not necessarily paid less than men, though often they were. Female monasticism is investigated in some detail, showing that women who wanted to be anchoresses (that is to say, live the rest of their lives in cells or hermitages) had to undergo an arduous selection process. All in all, the Middle Ages are not easy to come to terms with from our modernist distance.