She also urged women to obey their husbands 'parents. Those today who are critical of the low status of women in Chinese society have always excoriated Ban Zhao as the one who first explicitly put forward the idea that weakness is a feminine virtue and that the husband should act as his wife's master.
千百年來，女誡被認為是具體規範女性「以弱為美」、「夫為妻綱」的始作俑者。