Removing the creases in housework valuation Updated: Updated: January 21, 2021 00:59 IST The work women perform for the family should be valued equally with men’s work during the continuance of marriage Share Article AAA The work women perform for the family should be valued equally with men’s work during the continuance of marriage “The wife owes service and labor to her husband as much and as absolutely as the slave does to his master. This grates harshly upon the ears of Christendom; but it is made palpably and practically true all through our statute books, despite the poetic fancy which views woman as elevated in the social estate; but a little lower than the angels,” said Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman protestant minister of the United States.