2. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Home: Its Work and Influence is an extraordinary observation into the manner of the treatment of women in the late 1800s. Home is a place where an individual or group of people habitat (p. 15). The wife’s role is never valued. The woman’s significance within the house was first cooking, cleaning and caring for the children. The estimated average time a woman spent in the kitchen cooking and cleaning up was six hours a day (p.95). The tasks of a woman are not limited to cleaning, sewing, nursing the sick, and tending to the home. The one task that was left off the list is tending to the children (p. 95). In today’s society women are stronger and more masculine than women of the past. Working women
