Germaine Greer Quotes on Gender roles
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Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
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Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.
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The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, thought it is their dirt, it is not their job.