High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The roles and representation of women in Maya society has been a comparatively little-studied subfield of Mayanist research, which nonetheless has benefited from an increasing scholarly attention in the latter-half of the 20th century and into the present. Specialists working in the fields such as archaeology, anthropology, art history and ethnography have separately and jointly begun to address and expand upon what is known on the representations of Maya women in Maya art and literature, and their everyday lives- both for the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, and among modern-day Maya peoples.