Gender Roles In Society Essay

Gender roles are defined by the social-culture norms of any society. In most of the society the family system is based on the gender roles and it is the redesigned gender roles that help member of the family to run the family with bound responsibilities. According to Susan Maushart, she wrote a book call Wifework where she explains her own experience as a twice-married mother how she worked really hard to take care of the family but wasn't appreciated my her husband. But I think what she's really trying to say here is that marriage nowadays is completely unfair to women, and things HAVE to change.Who ever said men and women are equal must be blind.Women have always taken a back seat to men in American society. There has always seemed to be one set of standards that apply to men, and another set of standards that apply to women. This is evident in the home, workplace, and all throughout society.

Before women got throe civil rights they couldn't own proper, and their husband's they had no rights to shared property or even their own children.They had no right to vote or education beyond what, their after thought they needed to know to be wives and mothers which wasn't much. The women didn't have the right to choose who they marry. The man controls everything in women's life. For example, in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins gilam"He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the Barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stair, and so on"(609). The heavy bedstead. Barred windows, and the gate at the head of the stairs all provide a physical confinement that mirrors the narrator's societal confinement. The husband John controls everything in there her life.He orders her to ...

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...like policemen, firefighters, and running corporate establishments. Society looks at women and puts a negative, slide to them, because of most jobs like these having the image of male dominance or masculinity over women. They believe women cannot perform jobs like men do, because the American culture defines a woman as sensitive. As I explained before Women were once seen as only needed to bear children and take care of household activities such as cooking and cleaning, while their husband would provide for his family like bringing paychecks. It was common for a man to go out and provide for his family while the woman would stay at home and take care of all the necessary household chores and children. A married women always took the husband's status.Even though we are seeing more and more women succeeding in life, American culture still defines a woman as unequal.