This means women now have the choice whether to have a family or have a career. This have resulted in women having their first child at a later age as they have chose to focus on their career. The age that women now have their first child has gone up from 24 to 27.3 since the beginning of the 20th century. Laws such as compulsory schooling and the child labour introduced in the 20th century has now introduced the idea that children are no longer an asset to their families but an economic liability. This means children are now expensive to have and people do not have the money to have as many children as they used too.
A mixture of these factors led to the change in the position of women in society, the increase in equality, especially legally, including the right to vote (legal factor), the increase in educational opportunities (social factor) meant that women chose to educate themselves before starting a family, the increase in work opportunities with laws banning unequal pay and sex discrimination (social/legal factor)and changing attitudes in society meant that it was socially acceptable for women to be employed whereas traditionally the wife would be the housewife and the husband would be the breadwinner and would financially support his family. Recently, the number of people dying has also decreased in the UK as there is an increase in life
This is partially because women have started to go back to work and the economy in the present day is not very stable so supporting a bigger family is not easily done. Today, 51 percent of all marriages end in divorce and only 38 percent consider themselves happy while being married (Lebey, 2005, 1). However, there are a lot of efforts that show families are more resilient and more “loving today than it was in the past.” (Benokraitis, n.d., 17). The first piece of information that specified that families are stronger
When she then returned in the 90s she found that the list had flipped, with jobs and careers being in first place. This shows how attitudes have changed in a short time, making singlehood more popular. Another reason for the growth in singlehood could be the influence feminism has. More women are choosing to live alone, due to having the capacity to do so, as they don’t need the financial stability marriage once gave them. Feminism has
Divorce rates in the past 20 years have been declining the majority of that decline has been attributed to both men and women waiting longer to marry at a more advanced and mature age. Those who choose to wait until they are more mature to marry have a greater chance of being prepared to and have the ability to work through any issues that may arise early in the marriage. (Lamanna & Reidmann, 2011, 405). Perhaps more education can increase this likely hood as well, as often times during the education process most people would agree that they have had to deal with some sort of adversity weather that be a difficult test, the stress of having tons of work and very little time or maybe the class that is not going as well as you would like. Usually we learn not to give up but to try and isolate the reason for the stress and to find a solution to get through the issue(s) these lessons can also be
To what extent did women’s lives change 1850-1901? Women’s lives may not have changed a great deal between the years 1850 and 1901 but the changes that did occur did have an impact on women’s lives. Though there may have been some much bigger changes that came after this time period, it was the changes that happened in these years that kick started the change for women politically and socially. In 1850 women’s roles within society were extremely restricted and they had very limited opportunities. Women were expected to marry, have children and financially they were expected to be fully dependent on their husbands.
Children are now living with one parents (a lone parent family), with another family member or are being adopted. Divorce was extremely hard to come across in the past, it was very sociallly unacceptable, and took around three years before the divorce was filed. However in the more recent years there have been laws passing in order to allow divoce to be easier and cheaper for families. In 1969 there was the introcution of the 'Divorce Reform Act', making it easier for married couples to get a divorce. It is notivable that religioin is becoming a decline, so more people are accepting divorce as they believe religioin is less important, whereas in the past religioin was highly important and the church would not accept people to remarry.
Furthermore, Breen and Cooke (2004) suggest the variation in the gendered division of domestic labour by identifying three types of women and three types of men.Post-modernists reject the idea that family life in modern industrial societies is still patriarchal as there are generalisations and over-exaggerations made at the extent of men's power over women in society. Since the 1950s, women now play an important role in the labour market, and the change from manufacturing to service economies have prompted more women to enter paid employment. The increase in the number of self-employed and part-time employed women suggest that the dual employment of families have begun to transfer breadwinner and decision-making power to women, especially when the woman earns a higher income bracket than that of her husband.From a post-modernist perspective, the feminist approach to the patriarchy present in society is not sensitive to the difference between families. Bernades states that "the modernist view of the family is essentially a popular image of the nuclear family. Heterosexual couples, with a small number of healthy children, living in an adequate home," implying that feminism is arguing against an outdated model that does not take into account the great diversity that exists between family relationships in
If minimum wage was increased more money would be flowing to the pockets of working families, resulting in more people spending extra earnings on products and services contributing to the economy. By increasing consumer spending this would create more job opportunities. Minimum wage has not kept up with inflation over the year which causes the dollar to lose value. Many people are beginning to realize the importance of the minimum wage controversy. There are still many people who criticize and oppose the raising the minimum wage.
In studies provided by the Census Bureau, women proved to have worked more hours per week than men. Vanderkam feels the pay gap is reasonable considering women are beginning to work more hours, but some Americans argue that social inequality is now in favor of women. America is always going to have competitiveness with employee wages. While this is seen as social inequality, it sometimes is morally fair. If women are working more hours than men, many people find it reasonable for women to make more money.