Answer :
There were 6 social classes in the Elizabethan Era (Monarch, Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, Yoemanry, and Laborers). A social class is determined by fame, wealth, skills, and birth. One can change rank through recognition, increase or decrease in wealth, or marriage.
In Elizabethan times women belonged to their fathers (or their brothers if their father died), and then to their husbands. Women could not own property of their own.