helpmeet

Example Sentences

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The basic point of the essay was that she had been groomed to be a certain kind of bright but compliant helpmeet, and she was spitting mad at herself for succeeding.

From New York Times

Greene's celebrity and ambition clearly alienate the mostly-male membership that still views women either as helpmeets or sex objects, not as equals.

From Salon

With an abacus and a slide rule, earlier helpmeets, you had to know something of the mathematical process.

From Washington Post

Ms. Gustern might have thought of herself as a helpmeet or second banana, but her students didn’t see her that way.

From New York Times

With the so-called colored convention movement that began in the 1830s, women were welcomed to public life, but mainly as helpmeets.

From New York Times