One might picture the servant living in the past, an image of a humble and dutiful person tending to the needs of kings and queens, but the servant lives today, as in women's work. This inequality can become a trigger issue at some point in a marriage or caregiving situation.
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In her book "The Moment of Lift," in the chapter, "The Silent Inequality," Melinda Gates defines unpaid work as those tasks done in or associated with the home, childcare, caregiving, cooking, cleaning, shopping, and running errands. In some parts of the world gathering water and wood is also included. "For women who spend all their hours doing unpaid work, the chores of the day kill the dreams of a lifetime."
Statistically, women around the world spend more than twice as many hours as men on unpaid work. The progression of women entering the formal workforce just made for a more absurd reality as a woman would put in a full day at work and then go home and condense all the chores of the day into the few hours left until bedtime.
A researcher and an elected official to New Zealand's Parliament in 1975, Marilyn Waring, traveled around the world studying unpaid work and calculated "that if you hired workers at the market rate to do all the unpaid work women do, unpaid work would be the biggest sector of the global economy."
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In her book "The Confident Woman," chapter nine, "Are Women Really the Weaker Sex?," Joyce Meyer describes a typical bedtime routine of a husband and wife. While the hubby is watching TV, the wife completes over 30 tasks for the family before retiring including: making sandwiches, setting the table and preparing the coffee pot for breakfast, finishing the laundry, cleaning up after the kids, checking in on the kids, watering the plants, writing a note to the teacher, preparing a correspondence for mailing, taking care of the pets, and adding more things to her to-do list. She says "Raising a family, taking care of a man and being a good homemaker is a full-time job that requires overtime with no overtime pay."
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While the servant wife and mother is not normally viewed as a spiritual sin or stealing, it would be true that certain practices in the past would be viewed in the future as unrighteous. Of course, people come into this world bound to the ways and laws of the time. We have no control over certain things, and what is a man, a couple to do to make a life?, wanting to raise a family?, but have to accept the responsibility of it's not quite right that one person is not recognized as equal.
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SERVANT VARIATION - This is Funny