Analysis Of The Essay 'My Mother Never Worked'

Is it really true that women are looked upon as slaves to men or housewives? Authors’ Bonnie Smith- Yackel, Judy Brady, and Rosaleen Love have shown in their writings how demeaning women are in the eyes of men and the rights of women are just as equal as men’s rights; they are more than just housewives. “My Mother Never Worked” by Bonnie showed how Bonnie’s mom worked her whole life with her eight children, and according to the government, she did not work a wage paying job;therefore, her family could not receive a death benefit check after her death. “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady was a classic short essay that was about how she was ironing and thought of her male friend whom had got a recent divorce. Judy put herself in a man’s perspective of women during that time. She gave multiple statements about why she wanted a wife and what she wanted a wife to do to meet her needs. “Evolution Annie” by Rosaleen Love was a short story of a girl who wants people to know that most of the stories females today hear of men are not true. Most people inferred that men …show more content…
As stated in the story, “My town-bred mother learned to set hens and raise chickens, feed pigs, milk cows, plant and harvest a garden, and can every fruit and vegetable she could scrounge. She carried water nearly a quarter of a mile from the well to fill her wash boilers in order to do her laundry on a scrub board. She learned to shuck grain, feed threshers, shuck and husk corn, feed corn pickers.” She learned how to do a lot of work but in the eyes of the government, working on the farm wasn't a wage paying job. Was it because she was a women? Furthermore, “In 1937 her fifth daughter was born. She was 42 years old. In 1939 a second son, and in 1941 her eighth child – and third son,” the story says. I speculate that working on the farm and having so many children to take care of was a lot of work even if she did not work outside of her