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Cocksure women and Hensure men In D.H Lawrence’s essay “cocksure women and hensure men,” he tells us that women should stay home and take care of the family while the husband goes out and supports the family. He noticed in his time, (1920’s), women were starting to fall out of that specific lifestyle. Women were becoming independent, opinionated, and entering the work force. Lawrence gives us an idea of how a woman should be in his opinion when he says, “The demure maiden, the demure spouse, the demure mother-this is still the ideal.” We notice that Lawrence still believes that women should follow that old standard of a woman, a housewife. She should have kids, cook, clean, be beautiful, and submissive. Lawrence has two ideas of how women are: hensure or cocksure. The hensure woman is the demure housewife. She is agreeable and loving. She has children and happily raises them and that is her career. Her family is her job and her fulfillment in life. The cocksure woman doesn’t have children. Instead she has a job and an opinion. Lawrence gives us his impression of a cocksure woman when he says, “A really up-to-date woman is a cocksure woman. She doesn’t have a doubt or a qualm. She is the moder