Women were expected to marry, have children and financially they were expected to be fully dependent on their husbands. Women rarely had careers and most professions refused entry to women. However, between the years 1850 and 1901 women’s role in society began to be challenged. There were a number of reasons for this,
Katherine Watson said “I thought I was headed to a place that would turn out tomorrow’s leaders, not their wives.” This highlights the expectations of women in the 1950s. After they leave college, they were expected to marry and be a good housewife and mother. They had no freedom of choice to do whatever they wanted; unlike the men. However, Katherine’s perspective was different than most people in society. She believed that being a good housewife was not everything in life, and that you can still have a career.
They now share equal responsibilities in homecare and rasing the family. Slowly the gender roles that were previously set are melting away. Since the dawn of the feminist movement women have been able to accomplish what many thought impossible. But in our modern era woman now face other challenges, such as negative sexual attention. When a man is referred to as a ‘slut” it doesn’t associate to the actual definition used by society.
The controversy that the film provoked of the second wave of feminism has led to decades to scholarly interpretation, study, and teaching. Both women are in unhappy relationships and depend on each other for the only good and solid relationship that they have in life. For the first time a film was released from the female spectator’s perspective, utilizing the new voice of women, dealing with unspoken subject matters. They gain authority throughout the film, take charge and enter what normally on the screen is viewed only as male characteristics. They become confident and fearless.
Apart from this, the most significant is that either male or female cannot replace each other. It is because that the male and female have different constructions and features of both physically and mentally. As for female, the most well-known character is having the ability to give birth to the offspring. Therefore, women have been regarded as the greatest role as the mother who provides the lives for our future. In the meanwhile, there are a large number of people insisting in the point of view that this situation must keep on existing, and female should live on the pre-given talent instead of developing some other skills.
During the turn of the century they were still defined as mothers and wives and struggled to earn the right to vote. Even in the Roaring Twenties, once women had gained to right to vote and had more freedom over the way they dressed and behaved, the still could not have fulfilling careers. The fifties marked a time when the American family closely resembled the values of the Cult of Domesticity with the ideal aproned housewife and working husband. Even today women still struggle to be paid as much as men in the same positions and to be seen not just as mothers and daughters. Though the Cult of Domesticity is long gone, we still suffer from the ramifications of it and the society from which it was
However they face the challenge and constant pressure to perform in all areas of their life whilst balancing domestic and corporate lives. This gives rise to the issue of being drained and burned out. Although women in the developed world have been blessed with more equal opportunities after generations of unfair inferiority, the pressure put on a society's women to be perfect at whatever they are expected to do is huge. Even with the enormous developments that have been made over decades, women must still constantly fight for the right to create their own identities, no matter where they're from or what they believe in. They strive to be like their precedents and in the bargain lose their self-identity.
Character Analysis of Giselle Levy The character of Giselle stood around all other characters in the movie Mona Lisa Smile, since she was bold and truthful to the cause of women’s liberation and all round prosperity. The movie was directed by Mike Newell and was released in 2003(Mona Lisa Smile). It showed the progress of feminine rights in the 1950s America. The main characters in the story were Katherine and her students Betty, Joan, Giselle, and Connie. The movie told of a beautiful and mature woman Katherine who taught “History of Art” at Wellesley College which was a conservative women’s school that wasn’t interested in spreading women’s freedom (Newell).
CHAPLIN TO CHURCHILL INTRODUCTION There was a time when women used to face many problems while living in the society. However, this trend has been changed but women have to follow various tactics in order to maintain harmony in the society and to stay at par with men. It took a lot for them to resolve the struggles of equal rights and to implement the same in real world without giving rise to any controversy. A few years ago women were never seen in influential roles due to many discriminatory factors but now the whole era has been changed and many women can be seen performing really well even better than men. This only has become possible due to the hardships faced by women in old times and how they fought for their rights
Female single-family units continue to increase in numbers even with the shrinking support promised by the federal and local government systems. There are no easy solutions to the challenges single parented women face. The stereotypes and bias single mothers face further complicate a difficult situation. However, when offered a choice to be a single mother or lose her child; 92% of mothers stated they choose to be a mother despite the circumstances, challenges, or demands (Jadva et al,