You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
As unto the weaker vessel ...  Modern women resent such a view as this; but the unanimous opinion of all mankind for centuries confirms it as a fact.  Plato said, "Lighter tasks are to be given to women than to men because of the weakness of their sex";[11] and as long as golf courses have one set of rules for men and another for women, every country club on earth bears continual witness to it.  In those lands where women do not enjoy the chivalrous preference and honor which Christianity has brought to them, their status is invariably one of progressive reduction and oppression.  In turning away from Christianity and staking all of their hopes upon a newly won legal status, the great mass of womankind will eventually find that they have been woefully short-changed and cheated.