“The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so--concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.” TwoProblemJobsCareersRolesPatternsMotherhoodInvolvingDiscontinuity Author:Jessie Bernard
“There are two marriages, then, in every marital union, his and hers. And his ... is better than hers.” TwoUnions Author:Jessie Bernard
“No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.” WayChildrenHomePracticeEternalAssumingMotherhoodPermanenceChild Rearing Book:The future of motherhood Source: The future of motherhood
“Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill” MayDoeMarriedSickIllTraditionalHousewifeImpedimentsMentally IllMarried WomenTraditional Marriage Author:Jessie Bernard
