Those that did often lived to a ripe old age, which meant they were a burden on their families. So, rich ones were packed off to convents and poor ones accused of witchcraft and strangled at various points in history.
This is of interest. I was curious about the works of Margaret Murray, her witch cult theory. It isn't well liked by the scientific community. But there seems to be something to it.
The goddess Diana keeps turning up though in my readings of European folk mythology. Night rides, the Huntress/warrior.
It led me to this book, a real work by a modern anthropologist who was investigating historical household financial records. She started off not from a feminist perspective but simply looking at bookkeeping. She noted that, of course, records were much more frequent from rich households, but that there were indeed enough rural agrarian type things to make a proper study.
They painted a picture of high involvement of women in the running of an agricultural society. And too, a commiserate level of prestige. I may be getting a bit Wiccan here. But it made me think of Murray's work. We know of the cunning woman. The White witch who knew how to pickle and plant and predict the weather. Medicines, midwifery. Records show that women were involved in every aspect of agricultural life. The book went on to posit that it was the move to urbanism, and specifically the closed shop factory system that stripped women of prestige.
Murray says the Catholic Church, in order to consolidate power, hunted down the White witch. She is decredited. But we do know that the Church did exactly that with the Cathars. We too know that like any society Western Europe had flourishing folk mythologies that reflected thought and culture - and that female symbols, powerful, involved symbols were present across the whole continent.
A caveat: I can't remember the name of the aforementioned book nor the author.
Moreover, I am probably mansplaining to people with a hell of a lot more knowledge.