Minoa is a name for the many villages and settlements in the Aegean coasts in Corfu and Sicily. The ancient bronze age of Crete was a larger part of the Greek Islands between 1700 BCE. Onward, the Minoan culture and its religion was an icon depicting women as Goddesses to worship in paintings, sculptures, seals and stone carvings.

Women never ceased to play important roles in the public life of Minoan city; they served as priestesses, administrators, and functionaries, and occupied some of the most dominant positions in this culture, not forgetting they as well participated in all cultural sports activities that Cretan men participated in. Most of the sports in Crete were violent and dangerous i.e. Boxing and bull jumping.

Women participated in all occupations and traded freely as craftswomen and entrepreneurs, even in top bureaucracy and priesthood was cited to women too. The Cretan society was matrilineal in that Kinship descent was reckoned through the Mother. They wore robes that were open to the navel cord and with a short sleeve and layered flounces pair of skirts; they also had many options of wearing strapless bodice with emphasis on geometric designs.

Women were a symbol of worship: the Minoans worshiped Goddesses, a symbol evident by women although there are some evidences of male gods, Minoan goddesses outnumber their counterparts.

Examples of these Goddesses are the Mother Goddess of fertility, a protectress of Cities, Mistress of Animals, the household, the Underworld, the harvest and etc. In Minoan Culture women were not considered mothers but were placed in positions and higher capacities other than those associated with baby care givers. Women were in more public places, and they are given more prominent positions both during assemblies and processions, acting in religious contexts being either individually or with officials involved, dancing and conversing freely.

They also participated in performing religious rituals; most emphasis on women was put to the public other than domestic social life rather than biological life.

Women were more than likely to have held the most dominant positions in the Minoan Religion; not only did they appear in art in Crete and the surrounding islands of Crete but through art, they were an essence of beauty and continuity in the society, they seemed to be larger and prominent participating in activities with fervor and bravery than their male counterparts.

Women were equally represented and involved as crafts women, entrepreneurs, and priestesses; they were also the high echelons of the political life. Although the palace kings were male, the entire society was not Patriarchal.

The Minoan Women were a pillar of stability and prosperity in the ancient Greek Empire who was adored and echoed in all modes of life.