Hakka women never bound their feet, and took on the roles of both mother and father, cultivating in women a "spirit of toughness" --of hardness, endurance, diligence, and patience under duress that was by no means less than that of Hakka men.
在沈重的生存環境下，歷史上的客家婦女不纏腳，並耕樵織炊，婦兼夫職，養成了強韌、刻苦、儉樸、耐勞，不輸客家男子「硬頸精神」的生命特質。