What intrigued me about this author’s piece was how they used humor throughout the work. It makes it easier to get into the piece when it is entertaining. I found her translations humorous, but they were also very informative. When I first started reading, I thought it would be easier to do the housework yourself (65-67). He will not do it right, and nothing will get done around the house. Towards the end, though, when the author explains why the small comments about the housework and the husband’s dissatisfaction with having to do it added up to him not taking women’s liberation seriously. I am glad that she stuck with splitting up the housework since they both have jobs. Doing work around the house is not women’s work. It just works around the house. In an article by Mainardi Pat, the author highlights the ways women face sexism in the workplace through “office housework.” I tend to compare the same with Koedt Anne article on The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm. These are low-value tasks, such as mentoring new colleagues and taking notes during meetings (Desire, 112). Women are more likely to be asked to do these low-value tasks but are not likely to benefit from them. If a woman in the workplace avoids these chores, she is a bad team player, increasing women’s work hours and decreasing their access to more valuable work. Women are expected to play a secretarial role in the office even though that is not a part of their job. They are asked to fetch things such as drinks and food, and they are often asked to lead committees that provide no benefits. These low-value tasks are handed off to women because it is too trivial for a man to concern himself with these small tasks.

These articles showcase how women are often expected to do low-value tasks that seem to be too trivial for men to find worth doing. The social constructs we once had where a woman would only do housework and a man would work are still around us. Even though women work now, nothing is much better because small tasks that need to be done for a system to run efficiently are seen as women’s work and not worth a man’s time (Kar, Nilamadhab, 3-8). If the job is trivial, it should be simple to have a man do the same job at various times. It is unfair to expect a woman to do all of her work in the office plus more because she is not seen as a good employee or wife if she does not do it.