Journal 11- examine the degree to which traditional gender roles and expectations have changed in your culture over the last 30 years. The traditional gender roles and expectations in Hong Kong over the last thirty years have changed a lot. 30 years ago, women in Hong Kong were with lower social status and had little power; they were assummed to be weaker and more passive; whereas men had higher status and power; they were supposed to be stronger and more assertive. However, as the society evolves and people’s expectation towards gender changes, gender distinctions between men and women are no longer that large. Women nowadays can work in labour intensive career, fix machines, or do whatever only men could do back in 30 years.
Essay on the changing role of women as a consequence of WW1 Before 1914 Many women stopped at home and worked by doing the washing, sewing, and looking after their families, which were the normal activities of a housewife. Before WW1 just over half of all single women and one in seven married women worked outside the home to make money. The men were the breadwinners of the family, and were basically the boss; this was the way the hierarchy in the family was before 1914. Women in paid work weren’t treated the same as the male workers. There was a lot of sexist employers as most of them thought a ‘women’s place’ was in the home.
Historically, women have always been considered far inferior to men, which caused early movements for women's rights. When compared to the past, today's equality is much better, but as feminism attests, America has yet to reach equality. In spite of what these various movements have tried to do, equality in the United States is unattainable because of the drastic differences between men and women. America should pay more attention to women’s basic human rights by treating them equally. Since the beginning of time, there has been a struggle for equal basic human rights between different races, ages, and genders all over the world.
| | A look in to the changing American Family | | Wendell Moore (Coach) | 11/27/2013 | | Before We Became Civilized Long before we were civilized, men and women have worked together to sustain the family structure. The men did the hunting and heavy lifting, protecting, finding and building the home, and bringing home the proverbial brontosaurus bacon. Meanwhile the women did the cooking, cleaning and child rearing along with taking care of the man’s needs. The face of today’s family structure has changed. What happened and why?
Once I had my son, I had to start work to afford all the things a baby requires. My husband worked also and I had to put my son in daycare. Working from eight to five and having a baby at home, I just could not see myself starting school. “As more women have elected to attend college, they have been faced with making choices concerning education and family roles. While men have increasingly been faced with the same choices, women's continuing greater responsibility for household tasks, including child care, means that the choices are of greater consequence” (Teachman,1989).
One important point to be made is the delegation of domestic labour. While men typically take on the responsibility of being the breadwinner, the one who goes to work to earn the income that supports the survival of the family, women are left with pretty much if not all of the housework. Women tend to cook dinner for both the husband and the children, all of the cleaning be it clothing or the general mess of the home and are responsible for childcare. Emotional labour is also very unbalanced. Radical feminists argue that its the wives and not the husbands who are looked to in times of distress or when problems occur, Radical feminists would describe women as more likely to listen, to agree, to understand, to excuse and to flatter.
Women are generally getting married later as they are pursuing a career before settling down. This has changed as 40years ago women would normally have to stay at home and have children and look after the house, but now women have the same rights as men. This is affecting fertility rates and they have started to decline, which is not good for our population. Since the 1960’s there has been a change in attitude towards marriage and a decline in religion. There has been less social pressure.
Gender Roles Changing in The Last Century Women have come a long way from being confined by the idealized image society held them to. The routine by which all women must live or deny their femininity and stand up for what they wish to do in life. From the necessity to only be the housewife, mother, and wife in which they must be cooking, cleaning, washing, and bearing children they have now become bread winners just like the men and can provide for their families if they choose to and not because that is how society sees it. If a woman would like to break out of being the housewife and work then she shall do so! Women in the work place began with World War I, around 1914.
The Roles of Women throughout History Selina M. Turner HIS103: World Civilizations I Professor Scott Maxon January 7, 2013 The Roles of Women throughout History From the beginning of time, gender roles have been in place. No matter how people have fought against them, men and women, while potentially “seen as equal” are not. We all see the obvious physical distinctions between men and women, but that’s not the only thing that sets them apart. Today it is common to see men and women working side by side in the business world, or sharing household duties, but roles were much different in ancient civilizations. Unfortunately, not all societies viewed women as equal.
They could go out and get any job and be considered for the position. However my parents work extremely hard, they get up before the sun comes up to go to work and return when the sun is down. Their backs hurt, their fingers hurt, everything hurts. They work hard for the clothes on my back and the food on our table. What do your parents do”?