![]() ![]() ![]() Not complying with this expectation would often lead to women being marked a bad wife or an unfit mother. Housewives baking fresh bread, pies, cakes, and other goods for their families every week. The example of changing diets that Cowan uses is the invention of a new type ofįlour, which could be used to make finer cakes and brought about the expectation of But after the development of modern appliances average diets diversified and expectations for women to curate menus arose, especially the modern One example of this is how cooking has changed, before the development of appliances average diets were basic and consistent of only a few items that were available from local crops. However, since these appliances were marketed to make life easier, societal expectations for housewifery increased so that women were allocated even more work. In her book More Work for Mother, Ruth Schwartz Cowan argues that the industrial revolution produced a variety of appliances marketed to make housewifery easier, actually made more work for wives and mothers since the appliances, in reality only could do the jobs previously allocated to children, men, and servants. ![]()
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