The period of 1950s was the golden age of America. Economy expanded after end of World War II. With lower unemployment rate. Income of everyone rose substantially. Americans in 1950s era were living better life than their parents. As mentioned in the 1950s Culture Document Packet, “Leisure activities, not work or politics, would henceforth be the happy hunting ground for the independent spirits” (262). When people has higher standards of living, more money to spend, free time that they can spend to enjoy their life is possible and highly predictable and inevitable. Clark Kerr and three other scholars presented the concept of the modern Industrial Society. They discussed in the article about what this Industrial Society will offer to individual. …show more content…
After World War II, families moved to suburbs, buying a house and wanted to live a happy life together. It nurtured a baby boom during this period. As per the author, Jennifer Holt “Women were considered domestic caregivers, with sole responsibility for the home and child rearing, while men brought home the bacon.” Gender based roles are followed through the world in some form. In Asia till today, women’s primary role is to take care of the house, children and family needs. This caregiver role is as important as the role of the men to earn money. Family is the corner stone, pillar of the community. If pillar collapses, it affects society and community since the most affected are the children of the family. So, to strengthen society, make it stronger, the first step is to make family stringer and women along with the help and support from husband plays a very important, crucial role in making family happier and healthier. Our society plays a role in defining gender roles and identity for example selection of toys, cloths, friends, rewards, punishments and activities. Children take this gender role as they see it and getting used to it in their surrounding environment. As mentioned in the article, “Studies of postwar culture found that government propaganda, popular magazines, and films reinforced traditional concepts of femininity and instructed women to subordinate their interests to those of returning male veterans” (Meyerowitz, 1994). This environment was created post World War II to justify the discrimination practices against women. In this period, due to cultural pressure and from society, women were constrained and accepted the role as a caregiver. This environment changed during 1960s where women were educated at a higher rate, birth control was also become available which increased out of home career option available to women. Jennifer Holt mentioned about
Due to the idealization of domesticity in media, there was a significantly stagnant period of time for women’s rights between 1945 and 1959. Women took over the roles for men in the workplace who were fighting abroad during the early 1940s, and a strong, feminist movement rose in the 1960s. However, in between these time periods, there was a time in which women returned to the home, focusing their attention to taking care of the children and waiting on their husband’s every need. This was perpetuated due to the increasing popularity of media’s involvement in the lives of housewives, such as the increasing sales of televisions and the increase in the number of sexist toys.
In many households, you can also see the husband cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children. Most of the married couples now share chores around the house. They respect as well as help each other during difficulties of life. Women can now raise children, educate them and direct them to a good life without the monetary support of the husband.
In many countries, there are distinctive gender roles. For almost every culture, there are male and female “traits and roles”. Men are usually seen as masculine and complete all the hard work. On the other hand, women are seen as fragile and meant to stay home and tend to the children. An example of this is in Indian culture.
In the 1950s the United States and the Soviets had a war in Korea. North Korea was with the Soviets and South Korea was with the United States. After, the war the United States and Russia were in what is called a cold war. When the korean war finished soldiers went back home and since they had not seen their wives for a very long time they consumed their love for one another often which is why they are called the Baby Boomers generation. Also, when the men came back they took the jobs that women had taken, when the men went off to war. This changed the role of women. It made women become housewives, which meant they had to listen to their husbands, they had to stay at home, take care of the kids, and well what a typical housewife does. But women were not really happy with this change. The image of a happy housewife in the 1950s was not accurate because many women were not really satisfied with just
In the 1950s, the biggest change happened to the lifestyle of the people. After World War II, the GI Bill gave money to the soldiers who came back from the war for college, businesses,
Henry David Hwang’s M. Butterfly highlights the stereotypical woman and draws a picture of the “perfect woman.” The perfect woman’s character traits include submissiveness, passiveness, modesty, beauty, dislike for sex, gentleness, and quietness, according to Hwang’s characters. These traits are shown in Song, labeling her as a perfect woman. The reader later finds out that Song is not a woman at all; she is a man. This challenges the image of the ideal woman. All of the female characters have flaws, proving to the reader that the concept of realizing the perfect woman is not possible.
Being a wife or a mother automatically comes with an enormous amount of responsibilities; as times have changed these expected responsibilities of mothers and wives have changed as well. These caretaker roles women play have come to define them and what they represent in society. Unfortunately to this day despite their immeasurable hard work women are still recognized as disposable material, unequal to men. But this does not under any circumstance demean the enormous accomplishments these wives and mother are capable of.
When Tinie Tempah, an English rapper, said, “At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being that I am,” he known that at the end of the day society cannot define who he is as a person. Tempah lived with challenges of being an English African rapper that faced the discrimination of society. Society shot down his dreams of being a rapper by stereotyping because of his English accent. Tempah can relate to the women stereotyping because he knows the emotional Rolla coaster one goes through when being labeled. In today’s American society, femininity has been expressed through media in various ways—in Lil Wayne’s “Love Me” music video— and lately the ideal woman is being portrayed as sexually submissive, weak, and dependent on men, causing women to believe this is what strong, wealthy, and powerful men really want, which makes women have less confidence and not strive for anything better.
Education is one of the major factors that influence the division of housework between men and women. Education plays important roles in society and to ensure the progression of the public, each person’s duty is to contribute to its development considering education is the greatest tool for accomplishing this goal. The basic ingredients of the society are men and women, however mostly societies think that w...
Women are socially promoted to be the caregiver of the house. Essentially, it is important for a mother to understand how a child feels; their emotions could help draw conclusions like if the child is sad or not feeling well. Another stereotype towards women involves the idea that most females like to fix things and/or problems. A common example in everyday life, the women will ask her boyfriend, “So, how was your day?” And the ideal response would be “good”.
Why are most of these responsibilities borne by women? The historical role of women is part of the answer. Despite the fact that we know instinctively that caregiving is valuable and important work, it has gone largely unrecognized and unacknowledged because we take it for granted. In the past, many parents felt that school education for girls was a waste of time, "A woman's place is in the home" was the traditional view. In those days, housewives had a tough life and were completely dependent on the men for money. There was a lot of drudgery in their lives and the men didn't help with the household chores, it was "women's work". The housewife worked from dawn to dusk and there was a lot of truth in the old saying; "a woman's work is never done".
Gender roles are extremely important to the functioning of families. The family is one of the most important institutions. It can be nurturing, empowering, and strong. Some families are still very traditional. The woman or mother of the family stays at home to take care of the children and household duties. The man or father figure goes to work so that he can provide for his family. Many people believe that this is the way that things should be. Gender determines the expectations for the family. This review will explain those expectations and how it affects the family.
Nowadays, everyone is working hard either men or women to support their life. Therefore, women want a men to share the family responsibilities with them to balance. With modern life, it is not only men can work and bring money to the family. Women have to work hard too. The independent in economics so, taking care of the children is not only the wives duty. Some times they want husband taking care of children when they are busy such as they are at work or doing housework. On the other hand, the husband might helps their wife in the kitchen instead of stand around and do nothing while wife cooking or doing something. It is not only wife can bring the family be happy and all members in the family have a good life, but also husband responsibility. For example, the good husband usually care about what his wife and his family need to support it. It can be money or solving problem. They should have a great idea to deal with
Does anybody know what the perfect woman is going to look like? Is she fat and tall or thin and short? Why are girls and women across the world judged on how they look, and what they wear, but males are not? Why do they show us pictures on hot men and women everywhere? Why do females fell they must put on tons of makeup and be gorgeous so society can accept them? There are major problems with our society today, and looks are a major role in our feeling and outlook on things. One of the biggest conflict society has made in our minds is how men and woman should look. It is everywhere! If you look at movies, magazines, and television shows, most of the people on them appear to be thin or good looking. Many men and women everywhere get the idea of they need to look like the models that are shoved into our faces. Most female models today are even becoming thinner just to reach the ideal body, and it is causing them to become sicker and destroy their body. According to Olds, 72% of girl said that models influence their idea of the perfect body shape (Olds 67). The media sends message eve...
In magazines stuffed with models and advertisements, billboards on the highway, and actresses on television, the message of what women should look like is everywhere. Advertising is a powerful force in our culture due to the exposure. The decided presence of these images in effect shapes the image of women today. It is very unfortunate that the media influences American society to the point that it defines the "ideal woman". The "ideal woman" is defined as someone that is thin, young, and beautiful.