The Role Of Women During The Society

The fight against sexism is not a new fight. Women have been fighting for equal rights, as well as fighting for their lives, culture, and values to be just as important as men's. On August 18, 1920, women were granted the right to vote; but this was only the beginning. From then to now, the role of women in society has significantly changed due to women standing up for their rights at protests and rallies, as well as on social media. While “The Good Wife’s Guide” focused on the promotion of the traditional gender role of women and defined appropriate emotions for women, “The Revolt of ‘Mother,’” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, represents the start of the resistance of the traditional gender role of women that we see in society today.

Traditionally, the U.S. family begins with a marriage, cohabitation and finally, children. However, the “typical” family is beginning to evolve very rapidly, just as in France and Quebec. In Quebec, it is more common to find couples living together that aren’t married than to find married couples living together. Surprisingly, only 3 in 10 families in Quebec are married couples with children under 25 living with them. In France, children tend to live with their parents until they’re in their early to mid-twenties. Quebec and the United States are generally evolving together. It is more common in present day to find couples living together that aren’t married, yet may or may not have children. However, in France, couples generally won’t marry until they’re in their thirties. My family is composed of the traditional American family: marriage, creating a home together, creating a family together. Although I was raised in an orthodox household, I was also raised seeing and learning from unorthodox living and parental situations. The role of family in the U.S., Quebec, and France nowadays are all transforming to purposefully cease all structure. Same-sex marriage is now legal in these areas, and this change has definitely produced the question of what is a “typical family” anymore. There is not a typical family anymore, there is only the family one was brought up in and one creates.

Stephanie Coontz in “The Way We Weren’t: The Myth and Reality of the Traditional Family” emphasizes that the traditional and ideal nuclear family widespread in media and textbooks are false and far from reality. In fact, it is common to see more similarities to the traditional family consistent of “male breadwinner and nurturing mother” (1) today than in the past.

The women did not have suffrage rights the right to sue or the right to own property. women right’s were extremely limited in the era.The topic is what’s the role for women in the era.The women’s role is to clean and take care of their kids. Women couldn’t own any property.The women did not have suffrage rights the right to sue or the right to own property. women right were extremely limited in the era.

Gender roles have had a dominant place in society throughout the century, different families emphasizing different roles. Society places certain expectations on men and women; allocating specific responsibilities to each gender. In Alice Munroe’s and James Joyce's short stories, the inexplicit social roles for women exist throughout society during these eras.

The roles of women during the Patriarchy Society influenced feminism throughout Shelley’s novel. Each individual woman in Frankenstein fulfilled a different role, therefore being seen in a unique way through the eyes of society in the story. This can be displayed through the actions of Agatha towards Felix when the monster states, “Soon after this the young man returned, bearing on his shoulder a load of wood. The girl met him at the door and helped relieve him of his burden” (page 97). This illustrates feminism through the view of the woman feeling that it was her duty to help the man of the house. Feeling that she needed to assist Felix, Agatha demonstrates the role that women play in a feminist environment. These specific roles are positively viewed through the eyes of each individual, as seen when Safie recalls the memories of her mother. The monster narrates, “Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her” (page 110). He states how “the young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced” (page 110) which in turn clearly illustrates how much Safie adores her mother. The role of feminism in this situation is positive due to the viewpoint being from another woman. Similarly, this role is also displayed when Justine stands trial for the murder of Henry Clerval.

In the Later Middle Ages in Europe, power was one of the main drives on society. The limited amount of people who had power in society gained it through religious or governmental affiliation. Since the church and the christian faith was the main aspect of, generally, everyone’s lives during that time, those who held religious powers played important roles in society. However, power was not even among the different genders of society. In a male dominated society, women scarcely could have power in society. Women could primary receive power through some type of religious affiliation, but could not hold powers in the government. Nonetheless, they were able to influence society through the little power that they did have. Their power derived from the prestige of being a religious leader. Nonetheless, the little power women had was often questioned by men. Source documents 11-5, 11-6, and 12-5 explore women in society during these times. Although similar in being in the time period of the middle ages, each document also has characteristic differences about women during that time.

“A Doll's House” and “Trifles” are very different plays, such as the number of acts, the styles used throughout, and the way characters interact. These plays are also very similar in that they dicuss and deal with the same type of situations and scenarios. Both plays helped change society in the way that men view the roles of women in their lives. Nora and Mrs. Wright both are in marriages that they must leave or get out of although they handled their situations very differently the two women in the plays set a precedent and changed the roles of women in society forever.

Women are important in our society. Every woman has her own job or duty in this

Gender differences and subordination are the main concepts that Feminist Theory tries to overcome. A core assumption in this theory is that women are oppressed, and that feminist theories are “an analysis of women’s subordination for the purpose of figuring out how to change it” (McEwen & Willis, 2014, p. 290). From a feminist perspective, there can be no pure biology, therefore, feminist theory views sex as a significant characteristic that interacts with other factors such as race and class in a relationship between women and the society (Chee & Im, 2006).

A role is defined as the function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation. More specifically, it is observed that each gender has a conclusive role within society. Thus, the question begs to be asked; what is the nature of these defined roles and why do people so strongly adhere to the roles of their gender? Research demonstrates that despite our modernized society’s vast advances toward gender equality, the implementation of gender roles from family, society, and media at youth create a society with defined gender roles. Though these gender roles are rigid, men and women serving more specified purposes in society produce a functionalist environment, due to the roles of men and women. Men and women can serve individualized purposes in order for society to become a system of interconnected parts that work together in harmony to maintain a state of balance and social equilibrium for the whole, as stated by the definition of functionalism.

Throughout history women have been viewed as people who needed to fit the role that a man predestined upon them. From cultural expectations to media, women are portrayed by the need to express who they are. Women are getting affected mentally and physically due to stereotypes because women are being portrayed as the weaker link in society.

During the early years of the Western countries, women did not have the same rights and privileges as men. For example, women could not to vote and they should surrender the control of their property to their husband because of marriage. In ancient China, women could not have any education. As the time passed, the world was changed, the rights of women are rising. The word “gender” in the dictionary is means “the physical and/or social condition of being male or female.” (Cambridge Dictionary). According to Gloria Steinem, “a gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves” (Steinem). In my view, gender should exist as a category in an equal society because we need gender categories and divisions for a functional society due to biological differences and culture. However, people should be free to be themselves and gender divisions should not be used as a basis for discrimination and sexism.

Myers (2013) states that, “There are many obvious dimensions of human diversity- height, weight, hair color, to name a few. But for people’s self-concepts and social relationships, the two dimensions that matter most – and that people first attune to- are race, and especially gender” (p. 162). Gender is defined by Myers (2013) as “the characteristics that people associate with male and female” (p. 162). Gender roles are the public images of being male or female that a person presents to others. Culture is what is shared by a large group and transmitted across generations- ideas, attitudes, behaviors, and traditions (Myers, 2013). Although much of what is learned about gender comes from one’s culture we also learn much of it through our genes and our predisposed biological sex. In most cultures across the world men and women are treated unequally and this inequality is sanctioned by custom and law (Kinias & Kim, 2012). Multiple factors influence the ways in which men and women combine work and family roles (Perrone-McGovern, Wright, Howell, & Barnum, 2012). These factors can include culture, genes and socioeconomic factors. Throughout many generations there have been many changes in cultures across the world and gender roles have changed, especially in western societies. More men are staying at home as “stay-at-home dads” and more women are going out and getting jobs outside of the home. Gender roles are influenced by a combination of both culture and genes.

Woman is a charming, gentle creation. They worship and hate women simultaneously. She is being studied, but nevertheless she always remains a mystery. Woman are blessed by nature with a special force. This force is invisible, subtle and gentle, but at the same time large and irresistible. A woman is the embodiment of all the beauty that we now have. Almost all cultural heritage of mankind was created through women and women's participation, because it inspires man for beautiful, noble and courageous acts, helping him to open up and develop himself. Unfortunately, at the moment, the role of a woman in modern society is somewhat distorted. The preconditions for this were created by many generations of previous centuries when a woman was considered a lower-level person, without the right to vote and without the right for self-fulfillment. Their main role was limited to the birth of children and households. Such a tool for the emergence of heirs of the family. If a woman tried to show herself in some other area, she was immediately silenced: burned alive, as, for example, in the Middle Ages, morally or even physically humiliated. Thus, men tried to defend themselves against the obscure nature of women and to emphasize their status as "strong sex." During XVIII century Mary Wollstonecraft challenged crowd with the revolutionary thoughts of equalizing women’s role in both educational and society’s status.