Fundamentally, Boydston believes that wave spheres were created to make women feel as if their responsibilities were within the home. A woman's domestic work was crucial not only to the family, but also to her husband. These men in the pre-war period considered paid work economically superior to unpaid work. If women stayed at home, they would not become a threat to men, their jobs or their superiority. Men did not want women to compete with them for jobs, resources, money, or in the marketplace. Women were expected to stay at home and depend on men. Men thought that women should remain behind the scenes and provide assistance to their husband's prosperity without any gain