Gender Roles In Western Culture

Gender Roles The change in gender roles in western culture has been happening since 1697 and is still going on today in 2015. For example baby boys back in the day wore pink, while baby girls wore blue and before the two colors came along, most babies wore white. Time keeps changing and so does the way people act, dress, and the roles of people in society. The colors that children wear define who they are today, baby boys usually wear blue, and baby girls usually wear pink. This shows how society forces things onto young children and their parents. Throughout the world both men and women are stereotyped with these crazy ideas that society thinks everyone should follow. In the journal ‘An Academy for Women’ from 1697, the author explains
In June 1918 the issue of the Infant department said that the generally accepted rule was that pink is for boys while blue was for girls. But then came along Marco Del Guidice, a sociologist at the University of Turin in Italy, he performed a online search of many books in the United States between 1880 and 1980 and found that pink was always associated with girls and blue was always associated with boys. Guidice also found that pink has been a feminine color since the 19th century. The debate has gone on for many years, but in the world today blue is made for boys and pink is for girls, even if people disagreed with Giudice's
There were many untrue facts stated, for example “He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.” This is saying how women have no voice at all to state their opinions. There were many things resolved but the most important thing resolved was; “That woman is man's equal - was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she should be recognized as such.” The conference came to a conclusion that women should be equal to men, because God made all people equal. Even with all these stereotypes being resolved and talked about, many of them never went away and still are talked about today.
From the snippet of ‘Pink Think’ we read , it explains the different ideas and attitudes about how female should properly behave. The author explains how it was patriotic for a women to be an “exemplary housewife” and how pink think held the femininity that was necessary for a women to find and marry a man. Even many young girls started to follow in their mother's footsteps and play a game called, Mystery Date. Pink think focus on teenage girl was about dating and getting a boyfriend. The author also mentions many stereotypes of women back them, including how women are always gently soft delicate and