Women stayed at home to take care of the children and do the housework, which consisted of cooking and cleaning. Since women didn’t work and stayed at home, this became more difficult when husbands and sons that were old enough were drafted to the war. That means that the household was now being deprived of one or more sources of income. That was the case with Walter Glass, soon to be 74 years old; he’s been through it all. From World War II to growing up without a father, the life of Walter Glass always had
Coontz believes it is not a good decade for people to remember there was change in values that caused racism, sexism, and discrimination against women. Viewers today would not turn to sitcoms to compare their lives to the sitcoms. For example, the viewers do not want to be a teenage single father living at home with parents with no education as in the show “Raising Hope.” People watch sitcoms now for entertainment. In the 1950s sitcoms the mother stayed at home to look after the children and the father was the one off to work to financially support the family. As shown in sitcoms, “gender roles became much more predictable, orderly and settled in the 1950s” (Coontz 31).
Women were once only seen in homes cleaning and cooking and the era of Rosie was the first step in women’s rights. Though at the end of the war men returned to their old factory jobs forcing women out of their maculating jobs, they showed women as a whole that they could do the same thing men could. While women did not end up reentering the work force until the 1970’s they were not in such high demand at this time either
In the past, women were not able to work or vote. They were supposed to stay home to cook and clean. Men thought that women were not capable of working and doing the same jobs men did. Men thought that women were beneath them. Flatland is a fiction book whose world is like the American world today.
After bringing Ben back to the house the children started to stay away from the house. Jane was quiet and to herself but went to her friends house after school. Paul did come home but he was often in tears, whined alot and stared for long hours at nothing. He was too thin because of his malnutritioned appatite. He didnt concentrate on important things, he daydreemed and mooned restlesly.The problem with Paul was that he didn’t have a mother at the time when he was growing, which is why he turned out this way.
Sexism Sexism caused a lot of problems in history. For example during the industrial revolution women are prevented to have a job that is paid equally as a man does although they do more work than a men does, and this lead to women rights movement. In ancient China women were not allow to go out they couldn’t have a job all they do is stay at home and do housework. It’s not really because their religion didn’t allow them. It’s because Chinese people think after women get married they will live with their husband and they will become a part of the other family.
Love is believed to grow with time by living together and adjusting to each other’s personality rather than being a product of passionate attraction. While the relationship between husband and wife may not be as romantic and passionate as in love marriages, there might be more satisfaction from family life. In arranged marriages, children are mostly regarded as the main source of emotional satisfaction. So, there is less focus on one’s partner and less unrealistic expectations. Furthermore, there are no children conceived or born out of wedlock.
They believe in patriarchy – men are dominating over women and think this isn’t fair. Delphy and Leonard argue that women provide 57 varieties of unpaid services for men, including sexual desires. They also feel that women contribute more to family life, by things like the birth of the children, but they get fewer material benefits of family life than men. Oakley found that only 15% of husbands had a high level of participation in housework and only 25% had a participation in childcare. This shows the majority of families have segregated conjugal roles – men are primarily the breadwinners and the females are the housewife/ look after the
During their research they found out that in 72% of cases men actually did housework other than the washing up every week. Young & Willmott see this as a positive move and described it as a “march of progress.” By this they mean that men in the past had been lagging behind women in terms of domestic labour and gender roles but now have caught up and are more or less equal or symmetrical. Feminists have severely criticised the work of Young &Willmott, one feminist in particular Ann Oakley claims that, “housework is exclusively allocated to women.” She describes housework as, “unpaid, isolated and makes women economically dependent on men.” Hobson takes this a step further by saying “housework is repetitive compulsive and endless often with no physical separation between work & Leisure for the housewife.” Oakley claimed that full time housewives spent an average of 77 hours per week on housework. Oakley argued that although 72% of men do housework was impressive this was only based on the question “do you help at least once a week with the cleaning for example making the bed or ironing? The problem is a male who ironed a jumper once a week would be included in this 72% even though they are hardly making a contribution to the housework at all.
Parents spent most of their time for their jobs and conducting business, leaving less time for their children. Some reasons mentioned above could make it impossible to generalize about the typical American family. The culture has been changed largely, because Americans have so much freedom and they don't care for each other like in the old days; American family becomes less communication. We are living in the twenty-first century, where the typical American family may consist of divorced parents, three kids that live with mom during the week and stay with dad every other weekend. Often, at least one parent has remarried, and lived their own life.