The phrase is used to describe women unable to function as responsible, adult mothers, either by (a) oppression and/or (b) failure by the female to meet developmental challenges and reach adulthood. įeminists often cite the phrase in a negative, socially critical context. However, the court also dismissed the remaining claims on summary judgment with respect to both discrimination and retaliation against DATCP for lack of evidence. September 18, 2003), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that a woman who allegedly overheard her manager using the phrase could take her case to a jury. Indeed, in the sex discrimination case of Volovsek v. Negative connotations Ī common assumption is that the expression relates to housewives not leaving the home, and thus not needing shoes. A comparable phrase, " Good Wife, Wise Mother", emerged in Meiji-period Japan (1868–1912).
The variation "barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen" has been associated with the phrase " Kinder, Küche, Kirche" (translated "children, kitchen, church"), used under the German Empire to describe a woman's role in society.
Hertzler from Kansas, who said: "Some vulgar person has said that when the wife is kept barefooted and pregnant there are no divorces." By the mid-1900s, the phrase had passed into common parlance, so much so that an article from 1949 states: "By early 1949, TWA was-in the words of its new president, Ralph S. The phrase "barefoot and pregnant" seems to have been introduced in the early twentieth century by the American doctor Arthur E. " Barefoot and pregnant" is a figure of speech most commonly associated with the idea that women should not work outside the home and should have many children during their reproductive years.
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