In reality, without women taking care of these social expectations, the family dynamic and society as a whole would have collapsed. Duties, such as having and raising a family and providing for the needs of the community, are often overlooked and viewed with little importance because they have no economic value in wages. This makes it easy for Woolf to look back at 16th century women and assume that their duties had no value. However, these expectations were not necessarily seen as undervalued tasks, but rather duties and roles that women of the Elizabethan age took pride in