Changing Gender Roles In The 1900's

Gender roles are what people assume they have to do based on whether they are male or female. Gender roles are seen in today’s society although it is not as bad as it used to be. In today’s time women are allowed to work and are not just seen as having to clean the house and take care of kids. However, women are generally do get paid less than men in jobs where they work the same jobs and the same amount of time. The gender roles of society today have changed from the roles in the 1900s. Women are having a growing opportunity to be equal to men. People are not born knowing the roles based on what gender you are. People are the ones who teach these roles although they might not be aware of it. The way people are raised are the way they will
In the book women are taught that sex is wrong and unnecessary and looked down on. Marriages were not based on love or attraction to one another. If you were attracted to or loved the person you were going to marry you were not allowed to continue the marriage. The Party did not want anyone to love someone other the Big Brother, which in return would make sure that the members were loyal to Big Brother all the time and never strayed away from him. In the book there was even a plant that was created to produce babies without the use of a mom or her womb so that sex would never be necessary by members again. However, if member had sexual impulses they were taught to harness it into Two Minutes Hate so that they could dismiss those urges. The thought behind the Party was to eliminate all differences in gender and try to make all people think the same so they would all be loyal to Big Brother. In our world today, men and women are in a relationship because they love one another and are attracted to each other. Different from the book sex is taught to be a beautiful act of love between a man and a woman. Men and women both play different roles in society and in