Married Women Stereotypes
Household education has also been a huge concept that adds on to why married women are stereotyped a certain way. From my observations, I have concluded that these stereotypes have been affecting women because the platform of the stereotypes has always been their household. Married women stereotypes did not appear overnight, they have been around for generations now. It all starts with how a woman’s parents raised and educated her. If she is part of a traditional family, she will most likely follow the same lifestyle. For example, my grandmother grew up in a traditional family; she grew up with the mindset that men are superior in a marriage and should always be pleased. Her childhood experience caused her to follow the same lifestyle and implement
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The reason married women have been stereotyped is because from the start of time women have given society every reason to back up their assumptions about women. In 1960, 70 percent of households were traditional families. It all started historically, because women never had the same rights as men, married women had the blind mindset that the only reason to prosper was to get married and be the perfect wife. However, the problem started when older generations of married women taught their children that this lifestyle was the right decision for every soon to be married girl. The education innocent girls received in their household led to them falsely believing that they never had an opportunity to be equal to boys because their mother had always demonstrated the fact that a girl’s future is to become a married women who obeys her husband and does everything to please him. This foolish idea escalated from one generation to another, in the same way that the stereotypes of married women continued to spread. For instance, Fredric Neuman addresses in the online article, Changing Gender Roles in Marriage, that certain things never change in marriage when he states, “ My reading of current expectations in marriage is that men still fix things and take care of the automobiles. Women still have primary responsibility for the proper maintenance of the home and the welfare of the children”. The most ironic part of all is that many families continue teaching their children this concept today, even though married women’s position in society has
The reason married women have been stereotyped is because from the start of time women have given society every reason to back up their assumptions about women. In 1960, 70 percent of households were traditional families. It all started historically, because women never had the same rights as men, married women had the blind mindset that the only reason to prosper was to get married and be the perfect wife. However, the problem started when older generations of married women taught their children that this lifestyle was the right decision for every soon to be married girl. The education innocent girls received in their household led to them falsely believing that they never had an opportunity to be equal to boys because their mother had always demonstrated the fact that a girl’s future is to become a married women who obeys her husband and does everything to please him. This foolish idea escalated from one generation to another, in the same way that the stereotypes of married women continued to spread. For instance, Fredric Neuman addresses in the online article, Changing Gender Roles in Marriage, that certain things never change in marriage when he states, “ My reading of current expectations in marriage is that men still fix things and take care of the automobiles. Women still have primary responsibility for the proper maintenance of the home and the welfare of the children”. The most ironic part of all is that many families continue teaching their children this concept today, even though married women’s position in society has