 Feast and rituals were visible and significant means used by competing Maya elites to demonstrate their status.Whether or not women were active participants does not belie the social, symbolic and political meaning of their contribution 

In addition to the ideological basis for high female's status, women exercised agency through their labor during the historic period.The labor of women was very important, both socially and economically but their participation in public ritual was limited; because of the potential ethnocentric and geographic bias.