So please go home and tend to your own tasks, / the distaff and the loom, and keep the women / working hard as well.
Iliad and Odyssey
Hector's instruction to Andromache in The Iliad, clearly delineating traditional gender roles and confining women to the domestic sphere.
c. 8th century BCE
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