A rise in divorce rate may put some women off marriage as they see this will increase the likelihood of the marriage ending in divorce thus resulting in trends in getting married later in life. Q3. Suggest three reasons for the increase in the number of divorces? Three reasons for the increase in the number of divorces are changes in the position of women, secularisation and rising expectation of marriage. One reason for women’s increased willingness to seek divorce is that improvements in their economic position have made them less financially dependent on their husband and therefor freer to end an unsatisfactory marriage.
1 Women’s lives after the two world wars changed, but there is some debate as to how much it changed. Their lives changed politically, with women gaining the vote, they changed in terms of employment, as they were now permitted to join certain professions and they also changed socially as a better way of living was set out for them. It is argued that women were given greater opportunities after the wars due to their exceptional participation on the home front. However, many historians believe that this change in women’s lives was simply due to the changing times and the progression in society. The historical debate surrounding this topic is wether women’s lives really did change greatly after the two world wars, or wether their lives simply went back to the way they were before the war started.
Twentieth century brought big changes in priorities of people and their expectations of relationships. Over the past 40 years people, generally, tended to marry later and didn’t consider creating the family as the most important thing in their life. Also more and more people choose living alone rather than with family and have freedom. And if before living alone gave negative status for women as they failed in finding partners, now views have changed and it is not blame to be alone. Also increasing number of people prefers cohabitation, that is living with a partner together but not marry, because it might help avoid conflicts.
By 1987, this figure had grown to seventeen per cent. Rise in female independence could be a contributing factor to this rise. Women may prefer to become economically independent before marrying. Rather than rejecting marriage, many couples may seek alternatives, such as cohabitation. Cohabitation has many benefits.
Feminist movements have challenged the traditional stereotype of a woman’s role of being a stay at home mother and caring for her family. Women are less willing to listen and obey their patriarchal husbands, and in a majority of households; there are dual working families. Although radical feminists argue that we have still not achieved equality between men and women; there has been major improvements. The way in which feminists, as well as women in general look at younger girls has also changed. In previous years; advice given by older women to younger girls would be to make sure that they get married and they are not ‘left on the shelf’.
Many middle class women were unhappy about this, and after the freedoms and empowerment of women during Weimar they did not like the new constrictions – it seemed almost like a step back for them. However, financial incentives were given to women to stay home and have children, and awards were granted depending on how many children a woman had – the more children, the higher ranking the award. They were told that it was their responsibility to provide soldiers for the future. As a result of this, many more women became mothers than might have down normally. Married couples were encouraged to divorce if their partner was infertile and many women joined Nazi women’s organisations.
While equality as a general rule has become more prevalent in society there are still stereotypes that women are encouraged to follow. These stereotypes can stunt the social developmental growth of women. Still to this day women are considered the main caregivers in households and are frowned upon when this does not always prove to be the case. There are also still many stereotypes concerning how a woman should dress, look, and the jobs that they should hold in society. This thinking has caused much heartache for young women across the world and could be rectified by further studying the differences between men’s and women’s social development.
since women are earning money now they can afford to make divorce petition and the divorces had become cheaper. There also had been laws like equalising the grounds of divorces making it easier for women to divorce men when as before only men were allowed to divorce women for any reason when as women had to prove that husband did something that let her divorce him. This also shows the changing position of women. Changing position of women had also change patterns in marriages and divorce .Allan and Cow had contribute to this reason by saying that marriage is
Women’s Idealized Beauty Image In the recent decades, with the improvement of the living standard, people have been paying more attention to their own physical appearances. Female bodies, most especially have become subjects to change. As bodies become the notion of changes, women are continuously being stigmatized and judged which leads to greater dissatisfaction with their body, shape and weight. Most women and young girls in our civilization are dissatisfied with the way they look and described ideal figures as what they see in television or magazines. These forms of media have been corrupting the minds of women and young girls for many years, thereby starting at an early age the unrealistic idea of being beautiful and attractive in order to fit in(1).Though it seems mere advertisement and entertainment, media does permanent damage to the self-esteem of women and young girls by constantly exposing them and hammering their own views of ideal beauty image into their minds.
However after 1920 the role of women changed. After the 1920s women were given much more freedom. They were allowed to go out alone, work, were trousers ect. Flappers were introduced which showed that women were actually allowed more freedom. Flappers were outrageous party girls.