Compare and Contrast - Women
Compare contrast women 100 years ago and women today.
I. Intro
1. Women's lives have changed enormously this century and the actions of women themselves have played a vital role in the transformation. Putting women back into history is about giving individual women their history, but it should also be about making some collective sense out of women's divergent experiences.
2. At the beginning of the century most women were invisible in society, whatever their class..
II. Clothes
a. Clothes
1. 100 years
Very conservative
Head to toe
Not comfortable
2. Women Today
Barely there
Comfortable(give or take) colorful b. Shoe
1. 100 years
Not comfortable
2. Women Today
Comfortable
III. Jobs
a. Opportunities
1. 100 years
Didn’t have much of a opportunities
2. Women Today
Have a lot more opportunities
Career Option: Back in the beginning of the 1900s, having a career as a woman was almost unheard of. Of course, one may stumble upon a woman who was locally famous for taking care of her family through work in the absence of a male provider or husband. Women were expected to stay at home, take care of the children and let their husband bring home the pay check. Most of them were dominated by the man of the house; providing whatever the man dictated, food on the table when they came home, house cleaned, kids taken care of and anything else handled. Today women are not necessarily staying home but are out making their own money. They now have the option to work at home or to go out and have a successful career, economy permitting.
Women’s greatest victory over the past 100 years is probably the level of education widely available to American women. Education opens the doors and is in some ways the great equalizer in the job market. And even if a mother can’t stay home to raise her kids and trade mommy stories with friends and family, she is blessed with the miracle of the Internet to keep on top of the best practices to follow in her personal and
I. Intro
1. Women's lives have changed enormously this century and the actions of women themselves have played a vital role in the transformation. Putting women back into history is about giving individual women their history, but it should also be about making some collective sense out of women's divergent experiences.
2. At the beginning of the century most women were invisible in society, whatever their class..
II. Clothes
a. Clothes
1. 100 years
Very conservative
Head to toe
Not comfortable
2. Women Today
Barely there
Comfortable(give or take) colorful b. Shoe
1. 100 years
Not comfortable
2. Women Today
Comfortable
III. Jobs
a. Opportunities
1. 100 years
Didn’t have much of a opportunities
2. Women Today
Have a lot more opportunities
Career Option: Back in the beginning of the 1900s, having a career as a woman was almost unheard of. Of course, one may stumble upon a woman who was locally famous for taking care of her family through work in the absence of a male provider or husband. Women were expected to stay at home, take care of the children and let their husband bring home the pay check. Most of them were dominated by the man of the house; providing whatever the man dictated, food on the table when they came home, house cleaned, kids taken care of and anything else handled. Today women are not necessarily staying home but are out making their own money. They now have the option to work at home or to go out and have a successful career, economy permitting.
Women’s greatest victory over the past 100 years is probably the level of education widely available to American women. Education opens the doors and is in some ways the great equalizer in the job market. And even if a mother can’t stay home to raise her kids and trade mommy stories with friends and family, she is blessed with the miracle of the Internet to keep on top of the best practices to follow in her personal and