Gender Roles and Society

Changing Gender Roles in Our Society: Women’s Education and Employment Education and employment go hand in hand now a day in order to become financially successful in life. These are two unmistakably major parts of society today. In order to become successful a good job is needed, and in order to get the job a good education is needed as well. But women especially need to emphasize more in these two subjects than men; due to past gender discrimination which brought on Equal Employment Opportunity Laws and challenges dissimilar from men’s: such as physical problems which effect their earnings, and that change their education habits. The year 1964 was a turning point in America’s history when the Civil Rights Act was passed making it illegal to discriminate during the hiring, promoting, or firing process of a job because of their sex, race, color, and religious preference. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was passed afterwards making a person’s sex an occupational qualification for a job. This made it easier for women to get out of the kitchen and seek jobs opportunities with ease not fearing being rejected or bad mouth. The Act also lead to programs of affirmative action helping not just women but all people when they too are victims of discrimination. It did that by giving the victim a larger voice in a court of law against a large company or organization. This gave way to a large population growth of women in the work force, nearly doubling in just 50 years. In the 1950’s about one in three women worked. This number jumped to three in five women by the year 2000. In 1990 women made 45 percent of the work force. And in 2000 it raised 3 percent and now women make up 48 percent of the work force while makeup men 52 percent. Now that women are part of the everyday work force they encounter many other problems than men do. One of the main problems is their physical difference compared to men. Women are in average 5 inches