Stanza 1 Summary

Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.

Women have no wilderness in them,
They are provident instead,

Let the criticism…begin. Right off the bat, our speaker tells us what women are lacking: "wilderness."
Sometimes being wild can be a bad thing. (We're looking at you, Shia Lebeouf.) In this case, though, this seems like a figurative way to say that women have no sense of adventure.
That idea is carried on when the speaker describes them as "provident," or carefully planning for the future.
In a nutshell, then, women are all boring, cautious, fuddy-duddies. We wonder if there's a catch to this critique. Let's keep reading.

Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To eat dusty bread.

And…there's no catch to be seen. Instead, the speaker describes women as "content," which doesn't really strike us as a compliment. In fact, this is followed up with a metaphor to describe the position of women as being in a "tight hot cell." Now, a tight hot cell might run you a few grand to rent one summer in downtown Manhattan or San Francisco, but otherwise it's not a fun place to be. The image here is one of confinement and discomfort.
And apparently "dusty bread" is on the menu. Women will apparently eat it without complaint, though.
All in all, this first stanza gives us a view of women as restrained and restricted. What's worse: our speaker sees them as content to be that way.
Before we move on from this depressing first set of lines, we should note that we have a little rhyme action going on in lines 2 and 4. Check out "Form and Meter" for more on that.