Reading this essay relly made me think. I do think the status of women has changed but not that much. Some men really do expect women to carry on as if they were a piece of property and had no live of their own. I think it's the woman's responsibility to defend equality. If you allow one to take advantage that's just what they will do. The main point of the authors argument I felt was; who wouldn't want "A Wife" someone that does everything with the exception of taking a breath for you in their lives. I did get the sense that she was arguing that men also have these qualities in them that would allow a women to benefit from.