man the provider

[leo9]

The object is to keep women in a dependent childlike role all their lives. What's to oppose? For the working class, it certainly doesn't mean a harder role for men: the only difference between men's and women's work is that men's ends at quitting time, while women's continues till the kids have been put to bed and the dishes washed, seven days a week.

[thir]

The object is to keep women in a dependent childlike role all their lives. What's to oppose? For the working class, it certainly doesn't mean a harder role for men: the only difference between men's and women's work is that men's ends at quitting time, while women's continues till the kids have been put to bed and the dishes washed, seven days a week.

Well, you could say that the idea of the man as (sole) provider is oppressive to men.

As for working class people, I am not entirely sure that you are right. I am sure many homes take two incomes, but I think this group as well as for instance farmers may be very conservative in as far as these matters are concerned.