He was talking about centuries ago. I'm not sure "jobs" was an option for women back then, or men either for that matter. It was a tribal time. Humans are experienced based. Back then, no one had ever contemplated a world without chattel slavery, or women as chattels. It took the English Enlightenment to get the West out of that. Many societies today still labor under the old pre-enlightenment ways, India with its castes, Islam with all its foolishness and treatment of women, China with parents killing girl infants because boys are valued more. What is frustrating is that backward societies seem resistent to enlightened ideas. As if they don't want to improve, or what we see as improvement they do not.