Summary Of 'Cleaning : The Final Feminist Frontier'

In the 1950’s, women were working and being transformed into the American housewife, while their husbands went off to corporate careers. In Ingalls and Johnson, women were said to have careers however, could only succeed at “motherhood substitute jobs” such as teaching, nursing, administrative assistive, and social work (I&J, 51). This culture portrayed woman as only being capable of household jobs. When looking for the perfect suburban home, General Electric said women would head straight for the kitchen because this was where she would be spending most of her time. General Electric’s Wonder Kitchen made it even easier for women to save time, space, and work, allowing for wives to have more leisure time. The Chase & Sanborn advertisement reinforces the culture of women having to do everything to please their husbands. The picture on the ad depicts a man spanking his wife across his lap because she disappointed him with flat and stale coffee. Not only are women conforming to this domestically pleasing life style, but men also had

The article “The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective” by Angela Davis addresses on the liberation of women from their socially regarded functions in society. She explores the idea of capitalist critique and feminism, and she argues that housework is annoying as much as it is disempowering women in the society and women need to be released and discharged from these duties (Angela, 2011). Angela's unique perspective on women's roles as housewives and history of house works gives us a clear perspective on the plight of women in society. The article shares a different perspective to the traditional view of women as housewives in the community. Instead of judging women on their femininity and history of their work

In this satirical article, Brady expresses the difference between the roles of women and men in the 1970’s by stating men’s point of view on women and women’s roles in society. Throughout her article, Brady emphasizes the roles of women. For example, women could now “work and...takes care of the children when they are sick”. Comparing the 1880’s to the 1970’s, there has been a big improvement. Many women had jobs outside their home, but still were responsible for most housework and childcare while their husband’s only responsibility in a marriage was to go to work and earn money to support the family. Society’s expectations allowed women to work outside the home to support college education for husbands; however,women had to know how to balance their time between their children and their jobs, making sure that their husbands “cannot miss classes at school.” During the 1970’s, women were still oppressed in many ways and had to follow society's expectations in order to live up to the men’s view of women’s roles in society. Even though society’s expectations of women had improved since The Awakening, most of women’s roles had stayed the same. In the article, Brady specifies how once a husband is “through with school and has a job, [he expects the] wife to quit working and remain at home so that [she] can more fully and completely take

Society has told us for the last hundreds of years that the woman’s job around the house as shown in Figure 1 is to cook, clean, and take care of the family. One man, Tom Junod, who

Women for years have been automatically given the role of the domestic housewife, where their only job is to cook, clean, and take care of the children. Men have usually taken the primary responsibility for economic support and contact with the rest of society, while women have traditionally taken the role of providing love, nurturing, emotional support, and maintenance of the home. However, in today’s society women over the age of sixteen work outside of the home, and there are more single parent households that are headed by women than at any other time in the history of the United States (Thompson 301.)

Whether it is the past or the present, there have always been gender roles in society. In most homes, it is the woman’s responsibility to take care of the house. This includes cleaning, meal preparations, raising and taking care of the children as well as the husband. Compared to the men who take care of the more physical activities, such as yard work. It was known throughout many years that it was a woman’s responsibility to stay in the house while the man would go out and look for work to provide money for his family. Although the intensity of gender roles has changed, it still exists.

Today, life is different, yet it is easy to see that some values we share today are still in place from the 1950s. Starting all they way from childhood, the person who does most of the housework leads into modern day. As a child, girls do more housework than boys. Males also get more money, as 66% of boys get allowances, while only 59% of girls get their allowance. Boys who have with sisters are 13.5% more likely to believe in traditional female roles. When grown up, we can see the effects of this. Women spend 3 hours more cleaning a week, and we can see this in the fact that 50% of women come home and do housework. Only 20% of men do the same. Although it might be insignificant, we can see the skewed standards. These standards have not yet changed since the fifties.

A lady's work is never done: numerous American ladies grow up with this platitude and feel it to be valid. One such lady, creator Jessica Grose, composed "Cleaning: The Last Women's activist Boondocks," distributed in 2013 in the New Republic, and she contends that while the men in our lives as of late began going up against a greater amount of the childcare and cooking, cleaning still falls unjustifiably on ladies. Grose starts fabricating her validity with individual certainties and respectable sources, refering to persuading actualities and insights, and effectively utilizing enthusiastic advances; be that as it may, at the end of the article, her endeavors to engage perusers' feelings debilitate her believability and at last, her contention.

First of all, I would like to extend my appreciation to you for addressing one of the major issue being faced by many American women and women across the world. Your argument’s validity is clear as the men in American society hardly participate in house cleaning and they prefer to take care of children or dishes such small tasks than splitting the housework. In contrasting with men and women’s participation in house cleaning, I think you have successfully used ethos, pathos and logos to both sides of men and women perspective across the world.

Many American women grow up with the saying “A women’s work is never done” and feel it to be true. One such women is Jessica Grose who wrote “ Cleaning:The Final Feminist Frontier”, published in 2013 on March 19th in the New Republic. She argues that even though men have started helping out more with the cooking and childcare around the house the cleaning still falls solely and unfairly on the women. Grose builds up her credibility by cititng many reputable Authors, authentic fact, convincing statistics and successfully appealing to her audience emotionally . However towards the end of the article her arguments credibility is weakend by her using unsophistacted language and tone in the writing to appeal to her readers

First, many people with a great majority of men believe that women belong in the house cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children, but this is far from the truth. For many years men and women have always believed that women weren’t

Dirty towels! Not much of a housekeeper, would you say ladies?”. This further shows how little this society thinks of it’s women, expecting them to only be capable of being housekeepers. This superiority that the men feel over the women is echoed throughout the

”Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. “~Andrea Dworkin. This quote shows how society has put this idea into the heads of women in every new generation that a women has to play the certain household role while men go out and work. It portrays that women can’t venture past the expectations that an earlier society put on women’s shoulders. Throughout time, women have played the role of the quiet house wife. Society enforces the expectations that women should follow society’s demands over their own desires. In Chopin’s story “A Pair of Silk Stockings” the main character, Mrs. Sommers, wished to escape the typical role of a busy housewife and wanted to live independently in the life of luxury. These writings are relevant today since feminism hasn’t prospered to the point that both men and women are treated as equals. Some may say that men and women are now treated the same since both are capable of the same duties; however, men can do the same duties but most chose not to due to early women’s roles. The fact that men and society form women into housewife roles even if they have jobs is proven in the article, More Women are in the Workforce-- So Why are They Still Doing So Many Chores?, when its states, “...new data suggests that women in heterosexual partnerships may be just as burdened with household chores as ever--” (business.time.com). Hence, women with jobs are still

From the beginning of times it has always been the women’s responsibility to rear the children and keep the house tidy, traditional wifely duties. Why? Because kids come from inside of women? Pew Research Center, reports that men spend 4.8 hours a week (in 2011) more with their children than they did in 1965 and six more hours a week (in 2011) on household duties and chores. Women actually spend less time than they did in 1965, a reported fourteen hours less a week in 2011 (USA Today, 2013) .Men and women are learning to work together. Work/life balance is becoming a shared priority which in 1965 was not as women spent most the time in the home. I do find it very interesting that men and women with children both spend about 10 hours less doing leisure activities with kids (USA Today, 2013); I find it interesting only because the number is so much higher than originally thought which suggests that teamwork between husband and wife is beneficial to everyone making better relationships. The percentage of stay at home dads has increased by 3% in 1989 to 7% in 2012 (Pew Research Center, USA Today).

Fourteen days into your cohabitating household joy, you may find that your accomplice's inclination for leaving toothpaste spots in the sink each morning drives you up the wall.