In a working-class home it is the man who is the master and not, as in a middle-class home, the woman or the baby.
 George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). copy citation

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Author George Orwell
Source The Road to Wigan Pier
Topic home women
Date 1937
Language English
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“His home is impoverished but it is still a home, and it is noticeable everywhere that the anomalous position created by unemployment – the man being out of work while the woman’s work continues as before – has not altered the relative status of the sexes. In a working-class home it is the man who is the master and not, as in a middle-class home, the woman or the baby. Practically never, for instance, in a working-class home, will you see the man doing a stroke of the housework. Unemployment has not changed this convention, which on the face of it seems a little unfair.” source