He is portrayed as the decision maker. ... A woman, according to the gender roles of the society in the time in which the book was written, is supposed to be helpful in and around the house: "I mean to be such a help to John, such a real rest and comfort, and here I am a comparative burden already"(94). ...
This is taken from the book - "I made the breakfast, took her to work, did the hoovering, washed the floor downstairs, and changed the furniture round. ... The book then goes on to say there is a considerable loosening of gender stereotypes in the family and both of them have joint responsibilities for the money. ...
As Rosemary Evans comments in the book Women: Changing Canada: "Emily Murphy [was] the woman at the centre of the Persons Case."" ... Macphail was also a pacifist, she was against war, she opposed armies, gun makers and military parades she said that it was "stupid to make little boys dress up in military uniforms and strut with guns and swords it was foolish- (Brown video). ...
