Changing Role Of Women In The 19th Century

During the last centuries, women were inferior to men, but things have changed and evolved, also women have changed through the time. The feminist movement and the women’s revolution started in the last 19th century because of the social justice and they did not like to be considered as the second citizen. They lived with the domestic sphere and have no role outside the home.
From this picture, the true woman was socially considered as a scared character in the society, and she was the angel of the home. Also, she was the queen of the home and she ruled. She is private, very control, emotionally sensitive. In addition, the true woman had the sense of family, she was taking care of her children on her own in the home while the man working outside
So the woman started to go out the home and try to clean the society from the bad behaviors like alcohol, violence against women, child labor, and health issues. Moreover, this revolved the woman to be dynamic, influential, self-reliant, and unrestricted, also a social worker. For example, Jane Addams and hull house, she was a social worker, she helped the immigrants to learn English, feeding them, providing a shelter for them, and helped them to find a job so they can rely on themselves. What is more, some women start to form some groups and do sports so they can have a healthy life, this lead to change the dress of the woman’s and hairstyle, so she can easily practice sports. All of this was a symbol of rebellion and
This was shocking to the community cause in the 1500s “ Victorian times” women were well clothed and shy and they were afraid of exposing their bodies. Now, women have changed, they have swimming suits so they can swim with men. As we can see from the image, women are equivalent to men and have social justice. Moreover, they have almost the same rights. Later, women start to go out with men and even have sex before marriage. Charles Dana Gibson drew this image, he was a fashion designer, and he was the responsible for the Gibson girl and the new dress of the new women. As we can get from the image, women start to have more functional clothes to do sports and exercises. This was a huge cultural step towards having good health and social justice despite the dispose of the old