Digital helpmeets like Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana are fitted with nonthreatening feminine voices and programmed to respond to sexist comments with cutesy repartee.
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The wives of artists in movies and literature tend to be doormats or helpmeets, and their psychic anguish and creative fire rarely move from background to center stage.
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For the sociologist Jean-Pierre Le Goff, the women of May '68 were restricted to roles as secretaries and helpmeets to men, "consigned to tending to the Maoist and Trotskyite male warriors" of the uprising.
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I didn't try again to reconcile with P. The shock of feminism came none too soon for guys, including me, who had lorded in a sixties bohemia that mandated women be doting helpmeets to their entitled—because genius—men.
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And across the Thames River, in the unfortunately misfired inaugural production of the new Bridge Theater, female comrades laboring in the cause of economic revolution in 1850s London are finding their roles are limited to helpmeets, harem girls and amanuenses.
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The revolution, whether it was waged by the Yippies or the Black Panthers, left little room for women, who were viewed as not much more than helpmeets and playthings — La Maman et la Putain of Jean Eustache's 1973 movie, The Mother and the Whore.
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In the 19th century goldfields, women played significant familial, labour and entrepreneurial roles, such as wives, mothers, prostitutes, business owners and service providers and ‘Colonial Helpmeets’ (wives who worked alongside their husbands).Dickinson, 1993. Women within these communities were young and single, or married with a family, although the community was predominately male, female family never having intended to move to the goldfields until towns developed with hotels, stores and schools. Yet, there was a female presence in this environment from the start of the gold find in 1861, at Gabriel's Gully.
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This further enraged Zeus, who sent the first woman to live with humanity (Pandora, not explicitly mentioned). The woman, a "shy maiden", was fashioned by Hephaestus out of clay and Athena helped to adorn her properly (571–574). Hesiod writes, "From her is the race of women and female kind: of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who live amongst mortal men to their great trouble, no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth" (590–594). For his crimes, Prometheus is punished by Zeus who bound him with chains, and sent an eagle to eat Prometheus' immortal liver every day, which then grew back every night.
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Indian Empire in 1915 (Pink areas indicate those under the control of the British Raj and grey areas indicate those princely kingdoms which managed their own internal affairs) In the 1890s nationalism arose in India with the founding of the Indian National Congress. The advent of World War I and the use in propaganda rhetoric of terms like 'self-determination' gave rise for hope among middle-class Indians that change was imminent. For English-educated elites, who had predominantly become urbanised and depended on professional income, British rule was beneficial, but they also recognised that restrictions on their wives impacted their own careers. The practice of secluding women meant that they were unable to educate children or serve as hostesses or helpmeets to further their husbands' advancement.
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