Females were expected to be modest, marry young, to have large families and as Roman matrons, to exhibit the feminine form of gravitas, this is to behave with a sense of dignity and awareness of their responsibilities…
The common practice of a woman in the 1600’s to be subservient to men and were to model themselves after “The Blessed Mother”, Mary. Juan Luis de Vives, 1523, wrote a book on the appropriate behavior of women. In this book he states that young girls were to pray, have humility and obedience. They were also to control their tongues.…
Men were not the best suited for it and women took to it with zeal. In…
Gender roles were shaped by the Domesticity and Private Spheres Ideology which said that women should devote themselves to their homes, their husbands, and their children while men were to go out and get jobs, take part in politics, and other aspects of the outside world. It was said that men and women had different functions to perform under God. Society’s peace depended on these roles and if women began taking part in men’s activities there would be crisis. Young girls were to be under the supervision of their fathers, or brothers in some cases, until they were married and then they belonged to their husbands. Married women were considered legal incompetents because they did not have a sufficient brain to participate in legal affairs. For a while people did not have a problem with this arrangement because it portrayed women as noble and superior. Around the 1850s church attendance became very low and many more women than men begin attending services. Women took over the church in a sense because while men had world affairs and politics, women did not have such commitments and so they adopted the church to have a place of their own in society.…
I think women were mostly just trying to escape the views of being inferior. They wanted the opportunity to do what they liked, but didn't want to actually do it. Women were more comfortable with the life style they had been living in. They were asking for equal rights, like voting. They were sick of being dependants of men, and relying on them to live. Once they obtained the rights they were asking for, most returned to domesticity. They didn't really know anything else, because they had been socialized to do those things. When you get right down to it, they were scared of change. It seams to be human nature when you look at the history of mankind.…
Women had many jobs, that weren’t very easy. They had to cook, long hours hunched over the fire, often times making something for their family to eat out of nothing. Their long dresses could catch fire and hurt them. Now, that would be bad considering they had to walk about 15 miles the next day.…
Women during that time period were considered to be trophies and property, not people. They were…
Oppressed and discontented by the treatment of men, the women decided that they needed to defend themselves and improve the inequality and wrongdoings in society. The women during this…
Men were thought of as the superior ones and the women were less of them, they were not able to work in the same positions as the men in work places, or have card night with a few drinks…
They considered inferior than men and had no saying in decision making. From this perspective of women is developed back in the 1600s and 1700s, but even modern day, the perceptions are still apply. For example, women politicians and entrepreneurs are few compare with men, and women generally make less money than men in…
Women were always considered naturally weaker than men. They were not able to perform the same laborious work as men. Most societies left the domestic chores to the women and the heavier labor to men. In the early 19th century, acceptable occupations for women who wanted to work was limited…
Women in the 1800’s were expected to be submissive to…
Men and women are considered discrete and are expected to follow specific gender roles, otherwise they are viewed differently. These gender roles are “derived from classical thought, Christian ideology, and contemporary science and medicine.” Since women were paid less than men and had certain jobs, the expectations for them were “derived from these virtues and weaknesses.” men and women, who were poor, sometimes had to do both types of jobs “in order to survive.” There were few cases when stepping out of the gender roles were accepted. Sometimes, men would crossdress and woman would dress as men “in order to gain access to opportunities.” In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries” the “separate spheres” began to emerge and many women who didn’t live up to the “mother's” expectation “were censured as prostitutes with uncontrollable sexual desires.” Citizens finally realized “women were excluded from some occupations and activities” so “towards the end of the century new jobs outside the home became available.” Many men were treated harshly if they weren’t masculine, so the expectation for them increased drastically. Though the majority of both genders (male and female) act differently, their “separate spheres” became less and less “separate” at the end of the nineteenth…
Although, there were a lot of things women had to go through if they were. You had to be married to do almost anything. For example, if you were not married, you couldn’t even get a bank account, and if you were married with a bank account you needed your husband’s permission to go in and out of it. Today, a woman can independently walk into a bank, and get her own bank account, without a husband or any man’s permission. I feel that it was pretty ridiculous that you needed your husband’s permission to go in a bank account with your name on it. But they felt that women were weak minded, and not able to make her own decisions. In the 1900s, women were not to have sex before marriage, and stepping outside of that marriage was illegal, only for women. It was also a struggle for a woman to file divorce, if a marriage ended it was her husband’s decision, not hers. If a woman got married or pregnant, she was to quit her job immediately and be a stay at home wife and mother. They looked at wives to cook, clean, and take care of the children and the home. Females today can stay at work until the week of their…
Women are usually discriminated against and women who try to overstep societies standards were usually classified as mentally ill. Women were not allowed to file for divorce so choosing the right partner was important.…
