“ The Political of Housework” by Pat Mainardi starts off with talking about the main differences between liberated women and women’s liberation. He tells us that a liberated woman is someone who has a career but takes part in a lot of sex, someone who isn’t your typical housewife. As for women’s liberation, they would fall under the more typical housewife who goes out to buy the groceries, cooks, and cleans the house. As for the man he is the one in charge, he is the one who is served and taken care of, nothing else. The main focus though is the oppression that women go through when being housewives. Not much help is offered and when it is offered some sort of excuse is made so they only do the bare minimum. For example “I don’t mind sharing the housework, but I don’t do it very well”. Mainardi gives us multiple examples of how men offer to help and the reasons they give in order to do as little as possible. Men can’t work they are strong and usually larger than women but when it comes to doing something as little as washing dishes, the idea of doing a small task 7 days a week just seems too much for them. We then continue the ready learning just how much oppression comes with women’s liberation. Oppression is built into the system and men receive all the benefits while women are left doing work. This reading taught me just how imbalanced gender roles are even when it comes to things such as cleaning and cooking, things that I would find normal because that’s what it has been made out to be over time.