The first article “The Feminine Mystique” focuses on how women’s lives were planned for them, they didn’t have any say or opinion. As women grow up they are thought to be presentable to maintain a husband and that they need to get married and have children. Women thought the husband was the one who needed to provide and make decisions for them, such as when they should talk, wear, and get an education. Women were taught to keep their husbands happy, weren’t allowed to argue with their husbands, and to cook, clean, take care of their children, there should be no place to complain. The main job was to only provide money. Women weren’t allowed to be in politics or talk about politics. “ they wanted the men to make the major decisions. They gloried in their role as women, and wrote proudly on the census blank “Occupation:  housewife.”With women being taught those things it makes it difficult to choose their own opinion or have a dream because all their life they are thought to please men. Not being able to form an opinion makes it hard for them to protest. Most people are scared to state their poor because they are scared people will judge them or not support them. That kind of thinking makes them stay in their comfort zone, and keep being mistreated and being told what to do.

Pat Mainardi, “The Politics of Housework” focuses on the idea that men think that since they work they shouldn’t do housework and that housework is a woman’s job. “buying groceries, carting them home and putting them away; cooking meals and washing dishes and pots; doing the laundry digging out the place when things get out of control; washing floors”. These chores are not only a women’s job because it’s necessary to eat and live clean. There should be no gender when it comes to cleaning, it’s an everyday need. If a man lives alone and doesn’t wash the food or broom and clean their clothes, that house would smell and create bugs. A man is a grown man and not a child if he’s able to provide or state an opinion he’s able to take care of himself.  Men were taught that being a man meant only providing money. They weren’t taught how to take care of themselves or their children because it was known to be a women’s job. I think men should be taught how to take care of themselves and to provide for themselves, women aren’t maids or an object they can just boss around. Women have emotions and opinions.