Similarly employees are encouraged to develop skills and take over increasing responsibilities. This also puts a different complexion on marriage. Inevitably in the first century a woman was married into a subordinate position where she was expected to bear and raise children. Christian love would mean that her husband did everything he could to free her to develop her gifts as a person in her own right. And in that model a woman is permanently subservient to men in the hierarchy.
Wives are to be permanently subject to their husbands in all things.
She or he may cook, do chores, mind the children, drive the car, keep the accounts and pay the bills, go out to work, cease paid work to pursue an education, become prime minister or president. And in each function either he or she may exercise headship. The old style management style was an autocratic hierarchy of men, each with a female secretary. In the most successful modern corporations the male or female Chief Executive Officer serves all the others in the team by freeing them to exercise as much creativity in decision making as possible from the bottom. Instead of a one man headship, headship is diffused all over the body, with every person in mutual submission to all others.