Wives take care of others and are ideally viewed as selfless beings. They will care for everyone’s needs and desires, saving themselves for last or sometimes not even being able to make time for themselves at all. More importantly, there are so many implications and expectations of filling the role of a wife.

Wives are expected to cook, clean, and care for children, monitor appointments, be attentive caretakers gracious hostesses, wonderful listeners, and the list goes on. Husbands are not expected to perform these duties and are permitted to exist outside of the home and outside of the title "husband".

For many women, being a wife becomes their identities. The expectation is often that women will stop working to be the homemaker and even if continuing to work, will perform all of the aforementioned duties. In traditional views, women are expected to sacrifice their careers and hobbies to maintain a home and have children.

The status of a wife’s home determines a woman’s worth and success, while men and their accomplishments are measured outside of the home and outside of the title of husband. Marriage often can mean forsaking identity for women as long as these conventional standards and expectations continue to exist. Instead of being defined by unique personality traits or career accomplishments, identity eventually comes to primarily be wrapped around the title of "wife" and "mother". However, women should not have to be expected to forsake careers in order to maintain a household without the aid of their partners.

They should still be able to have an existence and an identity outside of the home.

I object to the expectations that the role entails and the idea that a woman’s identity should become rooted in her role as a wife.

Additionally, I oppose the idea that women are the property of men. A wife is expected to submit to the desires of men and suppress any wants of her own. Becoming a wife implies that a woman’s identity is sacrificed not only to the needs of the home but also the whims of the husband.

Although expectations and the relevance of gender roles are not as extreme as they were previously, they do still exist. Men are praised for helping with cooking and cleaning, tasks that women are expected to perform willingly and without complaint. In an ideal and modern society, duties should be divided equally between husbands and wives.

In maintaining a home and children, both parties should have to make sacrifices. Neither should have to entirely sacrifice their identity.