Advice to Young Men

This piece opens up by describing in simple words what men ought to desire in his wife. Right away it gives woman that typical stereotype that most woman receive. Us woman are suppose to have beauty, cleanliness, good temper, and chastity. Woman back then were known to be the stay at home wives and to manage the cooking and cleaning. Back in the 1600s laws made woman "civilly dead". They were there to serve as domestic arena as a wife, mother, and keepers of home and hearth (247). They did not have the right to vote, they were excluded from the most professions and it was simply unfair. To me this seemed like marriage was more of a joke and not made up of the true love and happiness that is needed in most relationships. It was made up of rules, regulations, and stereotypes.
Now a day's sometimes woman and men have switched roles. Woman are the bread winners and the men take care of the home. It is not odd to see, but back then it would have never passed. Never once do they mention what woman should look for in a man or how men should act and what we should perceive of them.
I wonder how over time this has changed so much. It has obviously changed for the better because some woman performance at there professions better than some men could ever dream of.
I noticed in this reading, like I did with the last one that they being up infidelity is much worse for the wife. Both men and woman are in the relationship as an equal and I have no idea why this is perceived this way. In a way it would have been offensive to be a woman in the 1600s because woman could have felt left out and not good enough. All they knew were their home and husbands. I feel bad for the woman who had to live this way for so long! Do not get me wrong, nothing is wrong with supporting your family with a clean house and staying true to your husband, but woman had no rights back then, it is sad.