The role of the woman was as the homemaker; she was responsible for affairs of the home and the well-being of the family. ... It requires time to abandon long-held traditions and attitudes and adopt more unifying and equal ideals. ... Few women worked outside of the home; they were mainly teachers, nurses, or in such professions that were considered appropriate for women. ...
For example during the war it was debated whether or not a general election was going to be held, this was a problem because most of the men who qualified as householders, with twelve months continuous residence at a given address, had left their homes to fight or work in another part of the country. ... They proved that they could be reliable in a time of crisis and that they loved and respected their country enough to give up their homes and go to strange places and use machines they had never even seen before. ... They campaigned, marched, held meetings and rallies; they even used violence...
*Assumption of parenting and step parenting roles: Most heterosexual and homosexual parents held unrealistic notions about parenting and their place in it. ... Issues like who they will be inside the home and outside the home are discussed. ...
You began to see a host of June Cleavers, and Harriet Nelsons on television parading happily around their spotless homes. ... In many cases depression sets in, causing the victims problems at home, and in the workplace. ... This sometimes leads to bad job performance, acting out at work, and the carrying over into the home. Spouses are often victims themselves, since it is unprofessional as well as unacceptable to display anger and violence in the workplace they may do it in the home. ... Shattering the glass ceiling is a process in which women and minorities are attempting to break throug...
It was essential that the wife create a home, care for the children and generally run the household... The work of the upper and middle class woman was limited to the home and family. ... As far as other as other occupations go, upper class women are said to have held office. ... The title most frequently held by women was "mistress of the house." ... Becoming a widow held similar stipulations. ...
With the infamous potato famine wreaking havoc back home, the United States, having far better economic opportunities than Ireland, became home to the largest independent female migration in American history. ... In addition to factory jobs, Irish women also worked in mills and took up domestic work in American citizens' private homes. ... Although not all followed this way of living, some Irish immigrant families adopted a more traditional American behavior in their homes (if they could afford to do so), dividing the men and women into gender role stereotypes; the male was the primary pr...
She attempts to instruct women in how to protect themselves from the pressures of the world outside the traditional home and services and yet also stay true to God. ... She also declares that Eve should not be held more liable than Adam, based simply on the facts that should women, or Eve specifically, is the reason for the fall, and then logically speaking, men, or Pontius Pilot, should be held responsible for the crucifixion of Christ. ... Lanyer uses logic to try and dispute the history of women's positions, she demonstrates that men have no true reason to devalue women, and that in re...
Throughout many decades women have been struggling to be equal to men, both at home and in the work place. ... Others believe that women are better off taking the traditional gender role and staying home to take care of the family and household chores. ... Before 1981, women held no place on the U.S. ... Women in Muslim societies are supposed to stay at home, without an education, cover their faces in public, and stay segregated from men altogether. ... But this "glass ceiling" that has held women back for so long is slowly getting broken. ...
The seventies marked the beginning of the Woman's Movement and the end of the ideals we held on what it is to be a "man" and what it is to be a "woman." ... Industry has been taken out of the home, and large families are no longer economically possible or socially desired. ... The roles of men and women in the home are becoming more co-operative than in the past decades. ... Today, it is not uncommon for a man to come home and fold a load of laundry while his wife is cooking dinner. In successful homes, the roles of all family members are changing, the roles of mom, dad, and the children....
They have been held back and their opportunities taken away from them because of the fact that they were women. ... The fact that women work a lot more also have created a less stable family because of the fact that women aren't at home with their families all the time. Even though they work more outside of the home, they still do most of the household work, which still has not changed. ...
In the last half of the nineteenth century, Victorian ideals still held sway in American society, at least among members of the middle and upper classes. ... The true woman's place was her home, devoting their lives to creating a nurturing home environment. ...
Leaving home at eighteen to go out on my own and start my own life, there were many things I wasn't prepared for. ... By allowing this man to make me lose my temper, I had also given them a validation of the opinions they already held: that women didn't belong in their line of work; they were too emotional and physically unsuited for the work. ... Like me, most of them had been raised in families where Dad worked and Mom stayed home with the kids. ...
The current views and the beginning of change in those views that some of society held towards the independence of women in the late 1800s can be seen through the character portrayals in "A White Heron." In the opening of the story, Sylvia is alone in the woods driving home her cow when she runs into a young man. ...
The current views and the beginning of change in those views that some of society held towards the independence of women in the late 1800s can be seen through the character portrayals in "A White Heron." In the opening of the story, Sylvia is alone in the woods driving home her cow when she runs into a young man. ...
Bronte wanted to bring up the fact that men can do what ever they want and get away with it, and women are not held by the same standards. ... She contradicts later texts by Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe in their essay The American Woman's Home, by denouncing domestic feminism and domestic isolation within the home, and encouraging women to go out and stir it up. In the American Woman's Home text, Beecher argues in favor of the "physical and social separation of the population into the female-dominated sphere of home life and the male-dominated sphere of work and agg...
A women position in the family has typically (in the past) been at home. ... This change made a need for factory workers .Women started to join the workforce out side of home. ... They may have a family and not be forced or required to be a stay at home mother . ... I feel the values held by citizens of the United States have gone through negative changes. ... Children are not created out of wedlock and are raised in a torn household or a broken home. ...
Women have always been expected to fulfill the role of homemaker and does not do work outside of the home, while the men have been imposed with the role of the breadwinner or the creator. ... Continuing in today's society, it was all right for a woman to venture out into the world outside of the home, but the expectation of "dinner needing to be on the table" was still upheld. ... Nevertheless, some kind of genius must have existed among women, although it never translated to paper due to the place women held in society. ... Due to this mentality, millions of women feel the ...
On the other hand, assumes the power to feel, nurture, serve and manage domestic and interpersonal life of the home. ... The deprecatory phrase "I"m just a housewife" typifies the low esteem in which this position is held in our society. ... Similarly, the ability to care for themselves and their homes has not been developed in most men, in such tasks, which they none the less regard as necessary for their own well being are disdained as "woman's work" - the chores of the inferior sex. ... They are not interested in vital interpersonal communication when they return home after a day&#x...
The women living rural country at that time would not be highly educated and normally be relegated to hearth and home. ... To the men the kitchen was messy with dirty towels and a broken stove, none of which held any significance to the case at hand for them as Mr. ... They do not see beyond the cheerless home into John Wright's sour nature, nor does the run down furnishing and Minnie's threadbare clothes clue the men into John's frugality. ... The men only saw the surface of Wright's home, never reading into anything they viewed. ...
Men today are held to a certain standard of appearance and skills that acknowledge if they meet the requirements of being a man in today's society. ... Even though these wrestling matches presents itself as unnecessary violence, there is a deeper meaning behind it, suggesting that this is how men act in their own arena at home and at work. ... These cage matches, represents everyday life in the work place, and even at home. ... The cage matches are very symbolic by expressing the ideas of how men should act within their work, home, and towards women. ... The wrestling matches exemplifie...
Her place was in the home, on a veritable pedestal if one could be afforded, and emphatically not in the world of affairs " (Altick 54). ... David Copperfield and Jane Eyre had very similar childhoods, Jane was orphaned David lost his father, Jane lived in an abusive home, David lived in an abusive home, Jane was sent off to a boarding school and so was David. ... There would have been more education in the running of a home from Clara. Also, chances are David would have stayed at home or attended a school nearby to receive all the education a girl needs. ... Reed constant put down of the poor...
Since the early 1900's women have been fighting against the suppression of gender inequality, whether at home or in the workplace. ... In a nut shell, social functionalist think that women will be best off carrying out traditional gender roles, which includes staying at home to take care of the family and housework. ... For 19 years, she worked at the Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., one of a handful of women among the roughly 80 people who held the same supervisory position she did. ...
