Put into the proper context and era that this piece was written, it would appear to be a rather accurate portrayal of attitudes toward gender roles at the time. The author is a wife and mother, she establishes her credibility in the first couple of paragraphs of her argument. "I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am A Wife, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother." which further demonstrates that not only does her being a wife make her creditable, but that she herself has been subjected to this type of discrimination and is able to speak from …show more content…
Perhaps the ultimate irony used is that, as portrayed in Brady’s essay, women were almost superhuman in the sheer magnitude of responsibilities required to be a wife and mother, yet as implied in the essay through the dictatorship of the gender roles, women were considered the inferior sex.
Judy Brady uses irony to address the issue of gender inequality in the marriage relationship in the 1970’s, to illustrates a skewed attitude toward women and the irony between a man’s expectations of women and vise versa, to address the lack of empathy men had towards their wives, and to indicates the demoralization of a woman in a male dominant