In the excerpt from Weber, she shows us that women are bound to marriages in which they have certain roles such as taking care of children and keeping up with housework. She states that it is a huge problem because their dedication to wifely duties prevents them from earning a decent income. It would be difficult raising a house full of kids, ensuring the home is always clean and having a full-time job just for women to be economically independent. This requires women to lean on men for finances making economic autonomy not exist. She confirms this idea by the quote "economic progress, however, is almost exclusively masculine". Moving on to the piece by Gilman Perkins, she too discusses marriage, housework, and economics. She begins the excerpt by explaining the species of humans are the only species in nature in which females rely on men for everything and some men don’t truly care about women. She also goes on to state that due to the financial reliance on men by women, men have a tendency to use women for sex and women often become over-sexed. In the end, she wraps up by explaining that men must have decent finances in order to get a wife and a wife must provide sex in order to get a husband. In her piece, she comes to the conclusion that women are viewed as the weaker sex but she wants everyone to know that women are human and people, not objects.
