From the women's suffrage movement in the late 18th century to the present day, women have gained more rights outside the home. Walby notes that even though women gained legal rights, they were still restrained and oppressed in their own homes. Walby calls the household structure a “patriarchal mode of production,” meaning, in his words, that the structure “undervalues ​​the work of women in the home” and “undervalues ​​women in this role.” To make this concept easier to understand, Walby uses Marxist terms to illustrate what she means. Walby calls the women in these households “the producing class” and the husbands in this structure the “ruling class.” This means that wives in these households produce (perform domestic chores) while husbands do nothing (Walby