helpmeets

Women were not seen as "helpmeets," but as essential members of family work units.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

But an ingrained religious worldview makes it hard for them to be anything but handmaids and helpmeets.

Diane Winston: Did Mad Men Get Religion? Diane Winston 2010

But an ingrained religious worldview makes it hard for them to be anything but handmaids and helpmeets.

Diane Winston: Did Mad Men Get Religion? Diane Winston 2010

What I can do, though, what WE can do, is simply keep on keeping on with Faith that God has the whole thing under control and sees things we cannot and will not ever see, doing our part as wives and helpmeets - helpers that meet our husbands in the way, helping carry the load, doing our bit on the journey that is marriage.

An Enduring Marriage 2009

But an ingrained religious worldview makes it hard for them to be anything but handmaids and helpmeets.

Diane Winston: Did Mad Men Get Religion? Diane Winston 2010

The Holy Spirit said that women contribute the most by being helpmeets to their husbands, and it shows them how to do that by guiding and guarding the home.

The First Year At Home 2008

The Holy Spirit said that women contribute the most by being helpmeets to their husbands, and it shows them how to do that by guiding and guarding the home.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

The work that mothers can't manage usually falls to their eldest daughters, who learn early that their role in life is domestic, as helpmeets to their parents and later their husbands, and as mothers to many children.

Extreme Motherhood 2009

I am telling you this because the point is, they did this because they were being true helpmeets to their husbands not because they were on some feminist joy ride.

The Homemaker's Time 2007

Their daughters were educated at home but it was an education that went way beyond learning to be dutiful homemakers and helpmeets to their husbands.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009