Women in seventeenth century Colonial America were far less superior than men. They could not vote, own land or property, work outside the house, run for a political office, and the list goes on. Women were supposed to be the “property” of men. “A woman’s identity and property were always connected with the men in her life. Upon marriage, her identity and property then transferred to her husband” (“Gender and Sexuality in Colonial America”). Women were supposed to help the men in their lives at home. They took care of the household while they were gone. It was the man’s house. In the northern colonies, the man owned the house even when he died but that happened rarely because of “longevity of the New Englanders” (Kennedy 80). But in the southern colonies, “Since southern men frequently died young, married women retained their property and gave widows the right to inherit their husband's’ estates” (Kennedy 81). Women’s other jobs to men were supposed to be wives and child bearers. Men married women typically to bore their child, but there was love involved. In order to grow the colonies, there had to be families. At first, there were only men, so the colonies could not grow. So women came to have a family and bore children to cause the colonies to prosper. Today, women are not subordinates to men. They are strong, independent women if they want to