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Jill has clearly never met an actual Amish person in her entire life because it's a well-known fact that the Amish women work just as hard as the men, if not harder.
They're all taught to how plow fields, saddle up horses, drive carriages, and maintain them, to properly, and safely use farm equipment, and maintain it as well, carry hay bales, and heavy milk cans without throwing out their backs, take care of livestock, and crops, raise barns, etc.
Basically, they're all taught how to do at least the bare basics of pretty much everything so they can do it if needed, and if something happens where the people who would normally do it can't.
It's just like how you said. When you live on a farm, you have to pitch in as much as you can. It's not a gender thing. The Amish don't have that luxury. It's a practicality thing.
This isn't even to mention that in addition to all that, the women are also the ones who usually do all the sewing, the mending, the cooking, the cleaning, the laundry, the childcare, etc. Not that Amish men aren't taught to do the bare basics of that either, or help out with it, but regardless, the women are the usually just the ones that do it since the men are usually to busy with other work to do so.
Lastly, and on top of everything else, you're also completely right about them starting businesses and leaving their homes to work. Amish-run stores, and markets are usually staffed with mostly just women. There might be one, or two (more if it's after harvest, the place is particularly busy, some of them have finished up work early, or if the family/community is just that big that it has guys to spare) men in the back to help with the really heavy stuff, or whatever, but usually it's just women running the place. The men are usually back at home tending to the fields, and livestock.
Tl;dr: Jill knows nothing about the Amish, or how they actually live.
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