Gender Roles In Ancient Rome

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Ancient Rome was one of the greatest empires in the world; Rome conquered hundreds of civilizations and lasted for centuries. Western Civilization is built on the ways of Rome, from architecture to societal values. The country most affected by the Roman culture is the United States of America. The ancient Roman's way of life has had an impact on western civilization; the most common impacts include gender roles, labor, economy, and the government.
Gender roles have always been a topic of interest historically, throughout the entire world. The Roman's gender roles were a bit similar to how early America was, women were viewed as the weaker sex; as Cartwright (2014) said, "they could not attend, speak in, or vote at political assemblies and …show more content…

"The widespread use of slavery in Rome is taken as a sign that Gemeinschaft dominated the life of the Roman republic and the early Roman empire" (Temin, 2004, p. 514). However, the Roman's did not have a great labor market because they had free labor and the United States still had a working class. Labor laws in Rome were substantially different from the United States; as Lawrence (2000) said, "the human life course tends to be viewed subjectively" (p. 443). Unlike ancient Rome, the United States disbanded slavery whilst the Romans kept slaves until the demise of their …show more content…

As Bodislav, D. A., Georgescu, R., & Rotaru, C. (2016) said, "Bribing voters was a common practice, but a form more perfidious of corruption began to spread in the form of games, fights with Gladiators in the arena, shows, what represented the price paid for popularity by those who held the power of the State"(p. 243) Similar to the United States government corruption spread first from sports like the NFL and how being popular allowed someone to receive more votes. Like having a movie star as a president aka Ronald Reagan or as a person becomes the leader of the country they immediately gain a star

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