Women and Work Or How Women Save Civilization

Part of the point of women is to make sure that men don't work too much. Edith Stein writes in her essay, "Spirituality of Christian Women":

But the woman who "suits" man as helpmate does not only participate in his work; she complements him, counteracting the dangers of his specifically masculine nature. It is her business to ensure the best of her ability that he is not totally absorbed in his professional work, that he does not permit his humanity to be stunted, and that he does not neglect his family duties as father.

Men can easily tend toward monomaniacism with their jobs--concentrating more on the job than on their family. Women ideally help to ground men. Perhaps part of this grounding is in women making men attend to them, thereby helping to save men from abstraction.