World War 1 played a significant part in developing women's political rights in both positive and negative ways. World War one may have foiled the drive by women to gain political rights just as much or even more so then it helped. Pre war women did have working opportunities though very little compared to men, as they were seen as weaker and that their place was in the "home". Their employment was limited to the domestic service (cleaning or working as a servant) and secretarial work and not manual labor in factories or working class women often worked in the textiles industry. Women were lower paid and were restricted to do less skilled work, as they were considered incompetent.
Every Woman is a Working Women Women in America have worked hard to get to where they are now. The 1930s was a diverse time period, when thinking about how women lived their lives. Surprisingly, the success of women was usually determined if they were married or single. The women in the 1930s struggled to provide for their families due to lack of job opportunities, had husbands deserted them, but still looked for opportunities to become governmental figures. Women struggled to make money, which affected their home life and the things they did in their free time.
The middle class consisted of freeborn or freed citizens. Then at the bottom was the slave population. Despite the social structure of Pompeii and Herculaneum there was a significant difference between the social statue of men and woman. Woman influenced the social structure in many ways, although they were denied place in office they could still impact political affairs. Upper-class women who were well educated sometimes became conspicuous public figures due to personal wealth and helped build the once powerful economy.
Role of Women in Flatland Society Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott depicts a fictional two-dimensional world that “A Square” lives in. This two-dimensional world is used to satirize Victorian society and the strict social hierarchy. The role of women in Flatland’s society appears to be especially reflective of Victorian society at the time. As typical of Victorian patriarchal society, women have very few rights and are considered to be at the bottom of society. However, based on the breadth of women and other shapes in Flatland, it appears that certain shapes in Flatland have the same appearance as women from a distance making it an interesting contrast of women’s traditional role in society.
Roman women in ancient times, though discriminated against on ground of gender but was seen as the most liberated in the world of that time. When looking at the sources for ancient roman women many questions are asked and considered, such as, what was the role of roman women in their society? Were they considered citizens who had personal freedoms, or were given no or little education? Were there roles really important to society? Whenever we go through the records of roman women's status in society there is always a great consternation.
Roman women weren’t allowed to transact any business of importance without the agreement of her father, husband, or guardian (guardian is usually a male). Rome did not regard women as equal before men. The freedom a woman in Rome enjoyed depended on her social status and her wealth. The lives of the woman varied greatly on her position in society. Woman that came from wealth often
In the period of Victorian Britain, there already were different status between women; some of them were in a working class, others in the middle class and others were aristocrat women. Each one had a different role in their life, and it will be explained in the following section of this essay. WOMEN AND INDUSTRIALIZATION In this section the main subject is the industrialization. Queen Victoria tried to convert the nation from an agricultural into an industrial nation. The industrialization had a beneficial effect in the economic and social status of women, because the fact that they were earning money outside the home changed the relationship between husbands and wives.
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.
Daycare and nanny’s fulfill the role of caretaker. Today’s women are less than submissive in their role as wife. They have a voice and are not so dutiful. Another reason for the difference in women today, is the divorce rate. Women today are different than women in the nineteen-fifties, in motherhood, homemaking, marriage and fashion.
A professional career was almost impossible, and despite Britain’s ruler being female for most of the nineteenth century until 1901 when Queen Elizabeth died, women were second class citizens. In 1870, Queen Victoria had written, ‘let women be what God intended, a helpmate for man, but with totally different duties and vocations.’ Trint, S. History Learning Site 2010-2011. Women’s Rights. www.historylearningsite.co.uk [accessed 07122011] Women’s subordination to men meant that their prime duty was domestic. Children were an economic responsibility for women - providing food, housing and clothing until the child was independent and could go out to work to provide for the family themselves.