174. (xvi) A man has his own duties and a wife has hers; a wife cannot take over her husband's duties, nor a man his wife's, and perform them properly.
There is no need to list the duties proper to a husband and to a wife, in order to demonstrate their existence; there are many of them of different kinds. Anyone can grasp how to classify them into genera and species, if he merely gives his mind to thinking about them. The primary duties by which wives link themselves with their husbands are the bringing up of children of either sex, and of girls up to the age at which they are given in marriage.
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