Judy Brady's essay about the taxes of being a wife and a mother shows how hard this maternal job really is. As Brady outlines the jobs and duties of a wife and mother, it is effective in showing how physically and emotionally demanding being a mother and a wife really is. Also, for a husband to put even more strain on the wife by not taking his role as being the head of the house and the main breadwinner shows what a lack of responsibility and laziness seen in men more and more. Brady does a very effective job in persuading the reader to realize how much women in a working position, while also being a mother, are being taken for granted. The only thing I really admire about this essay is the way it accurately describes the jobs of the wife being the adhesive to keeping a family together. However, Brady does write in a tone that is slightly sardonic and criticizing of her own sex if a women decides to be a stay-at-home mother, even though she outlines the work of a wife and mother to be just as demanding as a "real job" which is hard to admire or condone. 

In comparison to Medea, Brady's essay really shows how much of a victim Medea is to her indifferent and neglective husband. She implies in her essay that women are expected, or cursed, to love their husband, while the husband is left with all freedom and opportunity to do whatever he choses, leaving the wife to simply deal with it. Although, if a woman reacts in any way other than understanding, they are the ones ostracized and labeled as "over-reacting". Even though Medea's actions are way over and beyond the injustices done to her, the reader of Medea does empathize with her and her plight to exact revenge on her husband. These two written works, however different they and their aims are, work together to show how much a wife and mother really do.