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    more traditional‚ middle-class‚ stay-at-home. Moms used to me the housewife in American society. Olsen’s story takes us inside the mind of the mother as she faces the role of a breadwinner was a female. The story also gives us overlook of the challenges that her daughter had to face because of she is being the breadwinner. Even though the mother-daughter relationship in Olsen’s story doesn’t fit stereotype that is in mainstream but rather explain the strong bond and their love for each other as they

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    television have an impact on people’s everyday lives‚ yes television has an impact on people’s everyday lives because it displays certain social expectations like gender roles for men and women. For example‚ in the 1950’s‚ TV shows depicted men as breadwinners and women as homemakers. Whereas today‚ many contemporary TV shows challenge conventional gender roles. The social expectations of gender roles led to the “perfect” family structure in real life and society used television to represent the structure

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    of a woman’s place took hold was during and after the First World War. World War 1 was declared August in 1914. This meant Australia‚ part of the British Empire‚ sent 332 000 men to fight for their freedom‚ leaving many more women to become the breadwinners of their families. During the war‚ Australian women were not permitted to serve in the military‚ except for nurses. The many women not qualified to nurse‚ wanted a more active role in the war‚ however‚ were discarded by government regulations

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    Gender roles are associated with the norms‚ or standards that are created by society. These roles have surpassed the expectations of what our grandparents and ancestors were accustomed to. Men are viewed as strong‚ aggressive‚ and dominant; while women are viewed as nurturing‚ passive‚ and subordinate. The changes have impacted the world in great form by defying the odds in household duties‚ education‚ and work. At a very young age women are told they are to learn to cook‚ clean‚ and anything

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    is that men are now expected to stay at home with their or spend a lot more time with their children and the woman is supposed to go out to work whereas in previous years the woman was expected to stay at home with the husband (being the primary breadwinner) and the father would be less involved in the child’s

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    structure. Often‚ they choose wives which seem as their equals‚ as opposed to someone who "does not bring home the bacon." Though‚ men today often feel threatened because they no longer solely own the breadwinner role. This leads to increased stress for men‚ who not only want to remain breadwinners‚ but also want to increase the time spent with their children. Yet‚ today’s families have come to face some big stresses dealing with institutions that have not advanced as far. Workplaces often do not

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    families‚ normal domestic duties are most likely to be shared by both parties and they are both very likely to be working. Thus it all undoes the tradition of the past in which a woman would care for the children and the home‚ and the man being the ‘breadwinner’ would head out and work. Some sociologists also argue that the decision making is no longer only within the man’s hand as it once was‚ but also in the woman’s hands‚ the symmetrical family has an equal partnership in decision making. All this

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    cherish one another until death. However‚ it has also been historically known to dichotomize and assign roles to each partner. In a marriage between a man and a woman‚ the former is traditionally designated as the leader of the household and the breadwinner. The latter is given the roles of mother and homemaker. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston‚ these gender roles are shown to be the bane of a happy marriage‚ especially for the wife. Both Gilman

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    24 marks The traditional nuclear family is defined as being a family consisting of a heterosexual couple with 2 or more dependent children (own or adopted) with a clear division of labour. Meaning the men are the instrumental role (breadwinner) and the women are the expressive role (domestic and caring/childcare). Over time this has changed and the nuclear family as become less dominant‚ some sociologists agree with this such as Rapport‚ however some strongly disagree and believe that

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    Abstract Through an analysis of recent reforms in three policy areas in Chile—pensions‚ childcare services‚ and maternity/parental leave—the paper seeks to explore how equity-oriented reforms deal with the triple legacy of maternalism‚ male-breadwinner bias‚ and market reform. Recent studies of “new” social policies in Latin America have underlined the persistent strength of maternalist assumptions. Feminist research on new cash transfer programs‚ in particular‚ has tended to see more continuity

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