What was women called in the old days if they ...

The term most used was likely barren. And they were viewed mostly with great pity.

Such women wre described as barren and were treated as social outcasts, cut off from inheritances and so forth. To have a child was to be of a higher social status as it was the child  that would be expected to become an heir and carry on the family name.

Such women wre described as barren and were treated as social outcasts, cut off from inheritances and so forth. To have a child was to be of a higher social status as it was the child  that would be expected to become an heir and carry on the family name.