Women's Health In The 19th Century

Women who struggle with mental health have long been not taken seriously. This is due to many factors, several of which point back to sexism. It is strange how when you look into the past, many famous male writers would write down their thoughts about death and lack of meaning in life and were renowned as “deep,” yet you take Sylvia Plath who was thrown into a mental hospital the moment she began to open up. The treatment women has been completely disrespectful and degrading within that field. While women gained suffrage in the late 19th Century, it wasn’t until the late 1960s that women’s roles started being questioned on a larger basis. Throughout the first half of the 20th Century, women were expected to go straight into work after finishing school, and continue just that until they were married. (Text 8) This attitude towards women supported the belief that women are only meant to be fragile and docile. Psychologists are meant to be somewhat objective in terms of their studies, yet women historically have often been kept in mental hospitals for extended periods of time.
Because mental health has been almost entirely dictated by men, without much questioning up until the women’s health movement of the 1970s, psychiatric treatment was heavily influenced by societal standards as opposed to actual scientific research. Male therapists tended to overlook what female
We now understand that men and women are not different when it comes to psychology, and they are to be treated with the same sorts of medication. Women being accepted in the field of psychology has also made a tremendous difference when it comes to having a well rounded view of the human mind. There is no longer that same dynamic in which men overtake the entire study, causing women not to be taken seriously. The world of psychology is still yet be further studied, but within less than a century we made such