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From Project Gutenberg e-text #44481 (public domain in the USA).
The home in its essential nature is pure good, and in its due development is progressively good; but it must change with society's advance; and the kind of home that was wholly beneficial in one century may be largely evil in another.
So long as the home is the workshop the housewife cannot, and the housemaid will not, even if she could, properly do this work for the neglected world.
From Project Gutenberg e-text #57913 (public domain in the USA).
But the salient fact in this discussion is that, whatever the economic value of the domestic industry of women is, they do not get it. The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.