Financially I think Jennifer and her husband are doing great. I believe if Jennifer would maybe cut her hours at work that she could start a family together. I also feel this would help Jennifer and her stress level. This is a huge decision that Jennifer and her husband would have to make together, but I don’t believe with Jennifer’s schedule that they would be able to throw a baby in the middle of Jennifer’s life. If Jennifer’s husband would want to cut his hours that would be great, but something has to give at this point.
As the former role was commonly seen as more valuable than the latter, this often meant that the husband held most of the power, such as deciding where they would live, how resources were distributed, etc. In theory, the distribution of power in the relationship has shifted due to both the integration of women into the workforce and the emergence of the “new man” who does a fair share of domestic labour. However, this is not necessarily borne out by the evidence. Dryden (1999) studied 17 married couples and found that women still do the vast majority of housework. This could almost be dismissed as a hangover from traditional values or the result of still-prominent stay-at-home mothers, except that it remains true when both members are working full-time, and even in some cases where only the woman is in employment.
June is another victim of patriarchal oppression just like Connie’s mother, a typical “house wife”. Both the mother’s and sister’s roles fully reflect how women were treated at that time. They were controlled by males, displayed a lack of confidence and did not have their own independent self-consciousness. Oates used Connie’s independent identity and rebellious behaviors to represent women’s dissatisfaction with patriarchy, but had no courage to make a change. When Oates starts the story by introducing Connie without a last name, Oates created a character with a clear independent identity, while at the same time rebelling against the patriarchy.
This displays his change of view, where he realized that time with his wife was more important than work. He thought that if he had died then that he would’ve wasted his life working and not with his wife. Secondly, a similar theme is seen in the article “Double Daddy” by Penny Parker. Ryan Streeter, a researcher at Hudson Institute in Indianapolis said, “[…] there needs to be workplace flexibility for men, but in general, corporations have the expectation for men to put business over family”. (1) This is true, men should have the privilege of being able to be with their family whenever it is necessary.
The Awakening During the time in which “The Awakening” was written, the expectations of women and the limitations of law allowed them little or no independence. Women were expected to perform the social role of a doting wife and mother. As one of these women, Edna has little or no opportunity to express herself in the ways that she wanted to. It’s as though she is trapped in world where she doesn’t belong and can’t find any escape. She feels obligated to her husband and children.
The conflict theory is used to criticize society, rather than explain it. Humanity is seen to be organized into groups depending on their social status, or power. In “The Family Stone” when Everett brings his girlfriend Meredith home for the first time there is a clear imbalance between the powers of her as an individual verses that of the Stones. Before Meredith had even arrived at the house there was a certain impression of her based on the opinion of Everett’s sister, Amy, who openly expressed her dislike for Meredith. When she came into their home there was an obvious difference, she was very proper, anxious, and stressed.
Males still see females as patriarchal women, not as leaders or decision makers. But there was a reverse gender role in the film. Miss Ratchet was the leader and convinces her higher ups to keep McMurphy to stay in the mental institution because she thought it was the best decision. The movie showed that her decision was wrong and she shouldn’t have that position in the first place because she supposed to be inferior to men. Moreover, men see themselves superior than woman because of patriarchy system.
The parent-like figures of Romeo and Juliet Like in this play, there will be many people in your life that will help you get through your problems. But the main people in this play were the nurse and friar. They have made the biggest impact in the love lives of Romeo and Juliet. The nurse is like a mother to Juliet. She can be inconsiderate, but caring at the same time.
And this contrasts with how she felt when she belonged and had her identity in America. However, Betty chose to convert for her husband as she loved him; however the shift in the attitude towards her husband decreased immensely as he started to treat her as an outcast and she never achieved the sense of belonging within the family. Betty and Elizabeth Proctor both respect the religions and cultures they have. However, Moody’s family are only interested in her as the mother of her husband’s child; her role appears as to be the infidel mother of an Islamic daughter, and never belonged within the family. In the scene where Moody tells Betty that they’re staying at Tehran she replies “You lied to me, you held the Koran and you swore to me that nothing was going to happen, you were planning this all the time.
Conjugal roles are the roles that are performed by the husband and wife and can be either joint or segregated. They say that by the late 1970’s joint conjugal roles were common and that this had allowed the emergence of the ‘symmetrical family’. They said that with spouses sharing work and leisure, there is greater equality. Young and Wilmott also touch on the idea of decision making within the relationship, an area often spoken about by Edgell. Edgell says that women do most decision making frequently on a probably daily basis, but their decisions go unnoticed whereas men make fewer decisions more infrequently but they seem to be the more important decisions such as moving house or buying a car or other serious financial decisions.