Jane Smith
Dr. Sission
History 2020
7 March 2010
Role of Women in the Family
Throughout history women did not have equal right or opportunities like man. Being a wife and mother was regarded as the main priority of a women’s life. Even women’s education was secondary to a man because mothers only taught their daughters to cook, clean, and take care of their children to prepare them for married life. Women was regarded as the weaker sex because they were easily offend, unable to perform work requiring muscular or intellectual development because women are consider inferior to men; I guess giving birth to a child and house work is not consider to be hard labor. However, with all that said women roles in society began to change during the eighteenth and nineteenth century when women began to work outside the home during war time.
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth century women’s rights began to take center stage in the United States because women wanted the same rights as men’s. They also began to challenge laws that denied them the same rights under the law as men such as the right to hold on to their property once they were married to hold government offices, equal pay, and the right to vote and many others. During the 19th century women began to campaign for the right to vote in the form of the Women’s’ Suffrage Legislations which is the nineteenth amendment in the constitution that granted women the right to vote because at the time only white males could vote. However, even though the woman suffrage movement brought about the outspoken articulations of women's increasing demand to be given rights traditionally denied them. The lesser-known voices for gender equality and woman suffrage, especially from black women who suffered the prejudices of both gender and race, even from white women who often excluded black women from their delegations and conventions either as a result of their own prejudices of their listeners. When women was giving the right to vote they were now in a position of being involve in the political process and to try to hold public office. Woman began to see themselves as more than a housewife and wanted to go into the workforce so they could have some independence. They had to strive for equal pay in the workplace because they were paid less money than men and business was less likely to hire them if they were married
The role of women in the family in my opinion did not change because no matter what a woman does she will always take care of her family first because working is a means to make sure her family have all they need. Women would work eight hours come home and cook dinner and take care of her family because that is what she was taught to do at a young age, working outside the home is no different than doing housework; whereas a men would come home and be waited on after a long day at work. However, society wants to make women feel guilt about working telling them that their place is in the home and not in the office. There are those who say that a women who works do so at the expense of the family, can one say the same thing about a man working outside the home is he not just as important, will he cause the family life to suffer. Today we have seen more man who are staying home cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children, and the women are going to work how things have change.