Anderson points out that despite continuing occupational sex segregation, a lack of appropriate child care, and the lingering negative attitudes regarding female employment, women persisted in gaining employment and opening doors for themselves and later generations. The necessities of wartime America undermined a somewhat sex segregated labor market and the ideas that perpetuated it. Lacking national uniformity, local municipal government and attitudes greatly influenced the breath of change. Such themes arose was mobilization where employed several rationales in convincing women to pursue employment among them patriotism, the prestige of war workers, and “a stress on women’s capacities for nontraditional work.” For women themselves, several factors encouraged them to find work. While patriotism remained one, others such as economic necessity, escape from the home, desire for social independence, and preventing loneliness or anxiety provide a few examples.
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.
How do Friel and Frayn present the role of women? In the novel 'Spies' and the play 'Making History' the authors Michael Frayn and Brian Friel portray the roles of women in different ways throughout each of the texts. They do this because they are trying to present both of these women in the stereotypical role of women but then also showing that they’re different. In the novel 'Spies' the women are presented as women who are dependent on men but they can also do a lot for themselves and they do have a bit of independence. Whereas in 'Making History' the women are a lot more dependent, although they do have to marry a man while they are quite young to fill the stereotypical purpose which was to be a housewife, so they would just cook, clean and have children.
The Handmaid’s Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, takes place in The Republic of Gilead where reproduction rates are declining. To counteract this, the remaining women with viable ovaries, called Handmaids, are assigned to high class households with hopes of conceiving a child. Feminism, a topic that is central to the novel, is the ideology of equality for women. However, the society in the novel is depicted as the exact opposite of feminism. By utilizing the Handmaids as a representation of the females in the Gileadean society, the author exposes the flaws of an anti-feminist society through objectification and the absence of agency.
Issues of Women’s Liberation from the Oppression Found in Society and Marriages Sherry Heide ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor: Louise Becker 09 January 2012 Issues of Women’s Liberation from the Oppression Found in Society and Marriages What is said of women suffrage is not always true today in America or other countries, what is the truth, is that it is based largely on the perception of the woman experiencing the suffering. Women throughout time have suffered from oppression in society and in their own marriages. Gender roles are not something we are but instead something we do. It is completely unnatural for women of today to be the money makers, everything to the children (taxi, disciplinarian, etc..),take out etc cook, housekeeper and so on yet still their husbands will is forced upon the entire family instead of taking his place with his wife as partners. Did the verse found in Genesis chapter 3 vs. 16 cause centuries of women's suffrage?
Poor quality of care is another persistent problem. Low wages for child care workers tend to promote high turnover and inexperienced providers, and a patchwork of state regulations inadequately addresses these concerns. The federal and state governments have a number of programs that try to address some of these issues, but many problems still remain unsolved. Most single head of households are headed by women and a disproportionate number are headed by women of color (Van Den Bergh & Cooper, 1986) and dividing families into categories such as intact or broken derogatorily labels mother- headed families; painting a picture that for women “our families come first” and one that suggests that men feel their careers come first. In actuality the rise of single fathers has seen its biggest increase in single headed households between 1990 and 2000 according to census data.
In the novel we see with one of Okonkwo’s wives that women face tough times, where they are seen as weak and even worth nothing but caregivers to the husbands unless they hold a higher authority. There is a difference in the level of respect with the women in the Ibo village and women in the our society today. To contrast between the two more women in our society hold authority than the women in the Ibo village. In the novel Things Fall Apart we notice women are treated much different which leads us to think about women in our world compared to women in the Ibo village. Okonkwo the main character in this novel has many wives, his wives play an important role in his life but from some of the passages in the novel it is as if they are there just to please him.
It was also the time when men and women are not considered to be equals. Women could work but there was a lot of discrimination at work, which made it tough on women. Women were given the option to study and work but the rest s society expected them to get married and start a family, which is different than today, where women prioritise working instead of raising a family. In the play Willy Russell shows the two main characters, Rita and Frank, story of their developing and changing relationships both as teacher and student and on a more personal level. Rita is a 26 year-old married, working class hairdresser.
Although firsly these effects form social life , also effects on economical areas should be concerned. Because any change in economical areas can result in social problem for females. It is obvious that women encounter with dicrimination in their lives, in terms of economical factors such as wage discrimination, insurance issues for female worker and discrimination against women during recruitment process. Although there are laws to protect women against wage dicrimination , there is still inequality between women and men’s payment. According to a study which is conducted by America’s Union Movement, “The average working