The purpose of this paper is to examine how patriarchy oppresses women through the gender division of paid labor. Patriarchy and the gendered division of unpaid labor in the home hinder women in the paid workforce. The sub issues that will be explored are; how does women becoming associated with the private sphere take away from their ability to earn a fair income and how the upper class women are able to survive in the labor force working for a bad employer. Many Canadian women have been seeking work and although work is made available for women there are many ideological forces that have been encouraging women not to seek a position in the workforce. The reality is although women are willing, ready and certified to work most women work in a limited range of jobs and receive less pay. The result of these limitations and wage gaps date way back to the 17th century, where women were considered to be naturally suited to complete the task of domestic duties and maternal roles whereas men were given the role labeled as breadwinners. As Canada became more industrialize women's maternity and domesticity evolved. During the industrialization era the economy became more diversified because more families were moving in to play a part in wage labor to supplement farming (15). There was low wages paid to women, which made it difficult for women to support themselves. It was at this time that women gave into the idea of marriage, motherhood and resorted to domestic duties.  Females became associated with the private sphere, and males became associated with the public sphere. The private sphere was considered to be domestic duties that went not only unpaid but also unrecognized. Whereas men were strongly associated with the public sphere and were the sole income earners. As a result men being the only income earners, women were left in a vulnerable state, where they could not leave their husband because they had no income to support themselves. This idea of women being associated with the private sphere is a patriarchal dominant view. Living in a patriarchal society pushes women into a role that they did not choose but was instead socially constructed and it is because of patriarchy why women struggle to pursue their goals such as becoming lawyer. It has always been established that because of patriarchy women as mothers and wives would be responsible for domestic maintenance and men as husbands and fathers would be responsible for performing wage-earning work. This idea is so deeply socially imposed on society that challenging it becomes a difficult task and rarely results in favor of women.  As a result of females being labeled as being associated with domestic affairs they are treated unfairly in terms of paid labor. Although there has been a gradual change in the numbers of women seeking incomes and achieving it, there are still ideas reinforcing the fact that women were meant to work in certain occupations. Increasing numbers of women that were attending colleges were taught through the attitudes of male professors. These male professors taught a sexual division of labor was a necessary feature of family life because it created mutual dependency between family members. Education rose and more women attended universities and colleges but very few were able to apply what they l