At home, the spouse was the best and the wife submitted to her husband's every need. Once married, most of her duties consisted of child-rearing and housekeeping; he very rarely received assistance from Mr. Wright. Mrs. Hale made it clear that she was very unhappy with the way she had to live now. Mrs Wright invested much of her energy in the kitchen, cooking, heating, preserving and stoking the stove fire. In her "relaxing" hours, she sewed, weaved, mended and knitted. Women who worked outside the home generally held occupations such as secretaries, agents, maids, caretakers, maids, laundresses and unskilled workers in