My Mother Never Worked Summary

Women of the 1970s were strong and because them women today have a different stance in society as well as the world. The views of women in the 1970s were expressed in Judy Brady’s “I want a wife” and showed the strength of women in Bonnie Smith-Yackel’s “My mother Never Worked”. After some information about the past I can go into one of the many accomplishments of women today and share some facts about the changes of the views of women. In Bonnie Smith-Yackel’s “My Mother Never Worked” she talks about all the work her mother did on the family farm and it began with her on ther phone with the Social Security Office trying to claim her mother death benefit. Smith-yackels mother was an incredibly strong woman. Ms. Smith (Smith-Yackels mother) was born and raised in a town and married a farmer so she had to learn how to farm at 23. Ms. Smith had eight children to raise while helping her husband with a farm and she …show more content…
In Brady’s work she begins by talking about a male single father that she knows, he says that he’s looking for a new wife. She goes into a sort of dream wife or a wife that men want or expected of a woman in the 1970s.Brady goes on and lists a lot of things, women actually went through some of these things back then and some might go through some of those things today like women putting their husbands through school. The wife does everything taking care of the kids, holding down the house, working, cooking, taking care of his sexual needs and being completely fine if he decides to find another woman to lay with. Women were looked upon as servants, maids or a simple housewife. Although this story might not completely support my idea of strength many women have changed since these times and have their own minds, no longer looked at as a servants, maids or simple