C Turbull The forest people
And last but not least an article from the guardian paper based on inequality at home.
THE MAIN LAYOUT
We look at women and their roles in the last fifty years and realise that depending
On our culture or how we were moulded as children, women can have many different roles. The most common for women is attending to men, the house and bearing their children, this role is called the housewife.
We have always been expected to be weaker and maternal, some women have shown that they can be stronger than men by taking on their roles as well as their own but sometimes not by choice for example: single parenting, poverty (where no work for men and women work the streets etc), illness and even maybe religion.
Since equal rights and opportunities came into force, more couples are both working, more mums have help to go back to work, men are doing their fair share of the house work and also couples are making equal decisions. Women by now were also able to use contraception to prevent having a high quantity of children, which gave them a bit more freedom.
Since 1970 families have become more equal and privatised, it wasn’t a big change for men as from 1950 families started to slowly progress towards being symmetrical.
There are many benefits when families become more equal, it can take pressure off one another due to sharing roles and even if the wife takes up a part time or full time work this can help them financially but a vast majority of women prefer to remain as housewife’s this due to high maternal instinct.
Now a days children are listened to by their parents more, as before children they didn’t have a say in what they wanted to do, boys were sent to school to get a good career and girls were kept at home to learn house skills. These days both genders can get an education and its quite normal for children to go to crèche as young as 1 year old, this helps them to interact and to learn social skills
CONCLUSION
I feel that in 1970 women’s rights were recognised, they were now able to make independent choices. This gave women the freedom they wanted i.e. choice of using contraception and the choice to work.
I think this change was for the better as women are now treated equally and there is more of an understanding between families.
