The economic transformation took men as producers out of the home into office or factory. This separation of job from home evoked a notion of separate “spheres” for men and women. Man’s sphere was the bustling, competitive, dynamic world of business, politics, affairs of state. Woman’s world was the home and family; her role was to bear and nurture children and to make the home a haven to which the husband returned from work each day to find love and warmth at the hearth. To the extent that this “cult of domesticity” removed women from the “real world” and confined them to an inferior sphere,
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