The Role Of Women In The 19th Century

As the great James Brown once said, "This is a mans world, but it would be nothing without a woman or a girl"(Brown, 2/1966). This quote in particular signifies the hardships and discrimination women were faced with in the 19th century. Women were often objectified as a housewife who did the typical cooking and cleaning while a man played a more dominant role in providing for the family. Due to the early era, the idea of woman taking on a man 's job was considered more of a comical issue. Of course women were unable to pursue a man 's career because their only skill set was to stay at home. Ebony magazine elaborates on the differences between the two roles and talks about the progression in jobs, education, and relationships the female role acquired.

During the Vietnam War men, being the superior role, took on the burden of going to war while the wives stayed behind. Ft. Riley was a housing facility that sheltered waiting wives who waited with the subconscious uncertainty of their husbands return. Within the walls at Ft. Riley, children of the families were often caught misbehaving, it was a job for the male role to have shown disciplinary actions. Mrs. Etta McAfee stated that before behavior

She too had been a woman of independence in the working field. Mrs. Langford however knew she was working in a man 's world. "This is not her only disadvantage. She is also black-black and female in a white-oriented, male-controlled society" (Ebony, 3/1969). Despite the various obstacles Mrs. Langford had come up against, she proved her intellectual endowment and showed the capability woman had. She was juggling the life of a wife, a mother, and was aggressive on issues of human rights. Even though Langford knew that in the courtroom she would always be seen as a woman of very little knowledge, it had only become the beginning of gender