... for men was seen as being more important than women's domestic duties, and what women did at home wasn't even considered to be "work," although it was an around-the-clock job. Jeanne Deroin excellently demonstrated this point when she described the duties of the average working-class housewife and the way that her husband becomes angry when he arrives home one day ... only the husband worked. In the event that the family needed more money, the wife went to work as well. Working in factories was particularly unfavorable to women. In The Women's History of the World, Rosalind Miles explai...

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