Changing Gender Roles In The 1900's

Gender roles have significantly changed over the past 100 years for women. From the 1900th century until now, gender roles for women have changed in the home, in the workforce, and in the government. Although they have also change for men, they have not changed as drastically as they have for women. In the 1900’s, work in the home was greatly accounted for by the women in the world. Women were expected to clean, to cook, to do the laundry, and to take care of the children in the home. The men were naive to the work that the women performed in the home. Although the roles in the home have changed since the 1900’s, women still do the majority of the work in the home. According to data obtained by the Edmonton Transitions Study, “Women tend to do more housework than their male partners, irrespective of their age, income, or own workloads” (Springer, 2017). Even though more men are helping in the workload of the home, there is still not as much change in the roles of the home as there has been in other areas of gender roles.
During the 1900’s, women often didn’t have jobs outside of the home. Some of the jobs that women did have outside of the home included being a midwife, a teacher, and a nurse (Schreiner, 2017). Men at this time were primarily expected to provide financially for their families. Families were often depending on one income, the income of the man in the family. Now, women in the workforce are more widely accepted. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, “Women own close to 10 million businesses, accounting for $1.4 trillion in receipts” and “47 percent of U.S. workers are women” (Dewolf, 2017). The women to men ratio is almost equal now. Compared to the workforce in the 1900’s, work is more evenly spread between men and