Women's Values in Past, Present and Future

Women's Values in Past, Present and Future

In the early 20’s, things like getting married at an early age while

you were still at your prime, building a family, buying a house with a

“white picket fence” were important.

Then in the 30’s, getting married and having a family was still the

most important thing, but also perhaps becoming a socialite and

presenting a good imaging.

*NOTE: It may be important to note that women were always expected to

‘keep up appearances’ or be perfect and project the right image. At

this point, having a career was relatively not important

In the 60’s is when women started getting out there and looking for

jobs. Although having a family/husband was still important, women

started getting jobs.

However, the jobs they were getting were not like the men’s - they

mostly had jobs like secretaries, teachers, nurses (jobs that have

become stereotypical.)

As time progressed, the importance of having a career and being

independent grew among women.

We definitely saw this in the early ‘80’s with women starting to break

into the business world. The importance of this to women was shown in

movies and music of the ‘80s.

Even in fashion, we started seeing women dressing like men - I.e.

blazers, pants instead of skirts, ties…careers, independence, and

equality became even more important.

During the ‘90’s and up until today, women still find family

important, but they recognize that personal stability, independence,

education and your career are #1.

* NOTE - We see this belief in magazines like Cosmopolitan magazine as

images as successful working women are portrayed.

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...e a comparison of how their roles at home and in

society have changed by revealing women’s changing priorities. Also

through personal accounts, statistics, historical findings from books

and the internet, we will “set the stage”, or describe what was going

on at the time to answer the other questions like the obstacles women

had to overcome ( ie. Unequal pay ), or education and opportunities

(ie. The growth of their opportunities or lack their of.) Our group

decided to answer the question of what women find important to not

only present the project in a more interesting way and not just report

the information, but to make it more personal. So far, we have had

success in our change in organization for we are finding it much

easier to systematize the information and that is, in turn, making our

assignment all the better.