How have attitudes toward the roles of men and women changed or remain traditional (like in the 1940's %26amp; 50's, stay at home moms, rosy the riviter, etc)? For example, my mom is now an owner of a jewelry business, 60 years ago or so, and that wasn't even possible, just crazy to me. ANyways, if any of you have some more examples that would be cool too. I got like hilary clinton and Sarah Palin so yeahh :DGender roles, how have they changed in your opinion?Deezy, I do not think the roles have changed so much as the options and choices have changed. Once women were expected to marry, have children and take care of the home...a very important and laudable role. There professional career choices, if they were to have any, were being a nurse or a teacher, though a few did break through those barriers into other fields.
Now, I think that there are more choices and options available to women...like your mom owning a business. Women are pretty much accepted into most career fields and can even choose not to marry or have children.
Conversely, most women are still women and men still men. Equality is about have options and choices in our lives that are not controlled by stereotypical roles.Gender roles, how have they changed in your opinion?The roles of females have reallly changed a lot since the 50s and even the 60s or 70s. Today ads for jobs cannot say male wanted etc. Nor can employers pay women less in public sector work...they are not supposed to be able to do this in the private sector, but it continues to occur because salaries are supposed to be secret and until the men start discussing their salaries and complain about how low they are, I don't know that mine is lower yet...or unless someone else finds the data and shares actual salaries.Gender roles, how have they changed in your opinion?Here's an example: My Mom was a young unmarried women in the late 40's, early 50's. She told me it was rare for a young women to have an apartment by themselves. They either had roomates, stayed at home, or got married. She said there was a stigma associated with a single, independent women then, as if that women was %26quot;loose%26quot;.
Now that sounds crazy to me.I think it is a wild exaggeration to say that it wouldn't have been possible for a woman to own a jewellery business 60 years ago. Of course women could own businesses 60 years ago, they could own businesses 600 years ago come to that. There may have been fewer women running their own businesses in the 40s, but it certainly wasn't unheard of.
There were more stay-at-home mothers in the 40s and 50s, but personally I think that was a good thing. Better than shoving your children into daycare, in my opinion.
As for women in politics, one might argue that Frances Perkins, who was Secretary of Labor in Frankin Roosevelt's administration throughout his tenure of the White House, was a more significant political figure than either Hilary Clinton or Sarah Palin, since in those days if a woman got a job inpolitics it was on her own merits, rather than simply because she was a woman. There was no 'positive discrimination' back then.
