So during the Salem witch trials it was mostly women who were accused of using witchcraft but barely any men. I know that a majority of those women were single and either powerful or wealthy and that's a main cause for why people accused those women of using witchcraft but what other resins led to a majority of women being accused of witchcraft and not as much of the men?
Also sorry if there is any bad spelling, I've been off my game today.
Carol Karlsen's landmark study of Salem, The Devil In The Shape Of A Woman showed that 89% of those executed were women from families where they had interrupted the standard male lines of inheritance- for example the only daughter of a dead father, or the mother of a dead son without heir, and so forth. She describes these women as 'aberrations in a society designed to keep property in the hands of men', and while it's hard to argue that those convicting witches in Salem realised what they were doing, it seems clear that this was a factor. Anxieties about inheritance seem to have been at the heart of most witchcraft accusations in the North-East of the USA in the late 17th century, and Salem provides a very interesting example of subconscious sexism.