This implies that all people can be placed into either category, when it isn’t in fact this simple. Sex is an attributed status, whereas gender must be learned. The learned behaviours of what it is to be a ‘woman’ in society is one engulfed in many inequalities. In this analysis of gender issues, I would like to particularly focus on women and gender equality. The question to be looked at is ‘What does it mean to be a woman?’Although there has been some progress in the past 30 years, particularly in women’s education and employment equality, there are still many inequalities and also more inconspicuous issues affecting the women of today including domestic violence and rape and sexual abuse and I would like to look further into this.
In an age characterized by gender inequality, women were often told “your assignment, as wives and mothers, you can do in the living room with a baby in your lap or in the kitchen with a can opener in your hand” (Governor Adlai Stevenson, 1955). During the 19th century, women enjoyed few of the political, social and physical rights and opportunities that women of the 20th and 21st century have. Since then, women have fought for a more equal society and a more equal role by accomplishing a significant amount of goals that increased women’s opportunities. While political opportunities, working gender roles, and fashion are challenges that women face today, they are not as bad as the ones that women in the 19th century had to endure. Though not completely represented, women play vital roles in government nowadays as opposed to in the 19th century, when they were not even allowed to vote.
The women helped built up institutions that also included churches. Class impacted education as the poor women may not have been able to afford an education (or their family couldn’t.) which, I mentioned earlier. Class was a big deal, and separated the wealthy from the poor. But if a poor woman was actually able to receive a proper education her changes of marrying were good.
Women carry out the triple burden in the household; the domestic labour, emotional labour, and paid labour. As shown in the item most of this work is ‘unpaid and hardly recognised work at all’. Oakley argues the only way women will gain independence and freedom in society is for the role of the housewife to be removed aswell as the present structure of the family. Wilmott and Young believed the family is symmetrical and that both husband and wife have joint conjugal roles making the family a functional institution and their research showed that men do help women with housework. Radical feminists such as Dobash and Dobash also disagree with Willmott and Young’s theory that the family is symmetrical.
The main concept of this role of women was that their purpose was to educate their sons properly and to make sure that when they grew up, they would be functional and hopefully upstanding members of society. This was a major development, as it made sure women knew their place in the world; they were to serve the men of the world, and were not to get directly involved in any of a “man’s decisions.” This thought was also shared by Benjamin Rush, who stated that women should be educated just enough so that they could teach their sons about the principles of liberty and government (DOC B). While this did proved women with some educational opportunities, said opportunities were very limited, and their small amount of education could never land them a good job or allow them to be “free”, as Margaret Fuller wrote in “Woman in the Nineteenth Century” (DOC E). The Cult of Domesticity was probably the most dominant and most binding “institution” that developed in this era. It was based around four principal ideas: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness.
Margaret Floy Washburn History and Systems of Psychology Margaret Floy Washburn It is widely acknowledged that women have faced many obstacles when seeking the same opportunities and privileges enjoyed by their male counterparts. At the turn of the century, American psychology was just beginning to come into its own, and the idea of equal rights for women lay far ahead in the future. Women who desired to become a part of the growing field encountered strong opposition from both society and the profession itself. Many believed that women had limited capability, rendering them incapable of little more than the management of domestic duties. It was often felt that the pursuit of higher education interfered with a woman’s ability to fulfill the expectations placed on her.
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.
Women, were so unhappy without having rights and it made them feel less loved and wanted. With this theory being applied to this issue of Women’s Rights, they come out on top of the situation. It took 130 years or so for women to evolve in society. “Utilitarianism is a normative ethical theory that places the locus of right and wrong solely on the outcomes (consequences) of choosing one action/policy over other actions/policies. As such, it moves beyond the scope of one's own interests and takes into account the interests of others.” (Cavalier, 2002) With the Women’s Rights Movement, there were a lot of pros and cons that can about, mostly positives.
Other political factors could be education and how we are in such a shortage of nursing but nursing school is so expensive and getting funding to send individuals to school and for the schools to have the funding to create competent nurses. All of these issues affect nursing and nurses all around the world. I feel like sometimes we lose our drive to some of these issues we face, whether it be ethical or political we became nurses to help people and take care of people and having to deal with issues that we weren’t prepared for makes it that much harder to want to work at places that don’t allow you to nurse how you want
Catherine Yankiling Johnston English 4 Gender Role in India Research Paper Women’s equality seems like a standard here in America. Women in this country have come a very long way. Women were simply just housewives but now they are in the White House working side by side with their equal male counterparts running this superior country. It is easy to point out the rise of women’s right in the US, unfortunately it is not so easy to say the same in other developing countries. Though many are making the effort toward change, it make take decades for equal rights to take full force.