Has the role of the wife really changed that much?

In the 1950s a good wife was expected to cook, clean and rear children near singlehandedly. With TV presenter Davina Mc Call admitting that even when she’s exhausted, she keeps things hot in the bedroom so her husband won’t stray, Ailin Quinlan asks has the role of the wife changed that much?

WHEN they were a young, married couple, my grandparents caught a nasty flu. The doctor was called. After examining them as they lay feebly together in bed, the doctor explained to my grandmother that, although she was just as ill as her husband, she’d have to get up and look after Johnny.

Weak as she was, up she got.