A housewife and mother are words that describe the typical woman in the 1950's. The mother and wife was seen to have a very specific set of responsibilities to fulfill. Those roles and responsibilities have drastically changed since then.
An excerpt, from a 1950 home economics textbook, was founded on "How to Be a Good Wife." It gave nine suggestions to women on how she could please her husband. Before her husband came home from work, she was expected to have dinner ready and on the table. She was also anticipated to prepare herself by putting make up on, doing her hair, anything that could make her look refreshed upon his arrival ("The Good Wife"1). Not only was she to pamper herself, but she was supposed to coddle her children, whether it be giving him/her a bath or changing his/her clothes. Since she was a housewife, she was to insure the house was spotless. The noise level was to be minimized. This did not only mean for the children to be quiet, but rather all noise from the washer, dryer, dishwasher, and vacuum were to be eliminated ("The Good Wife"1).
The woman was to remember that her husband just spent a long, hard day at work. If he wasn't present, she would have no source of income and therefore would be at a state of financial ruin. Therefore, she was to avoid bothering him with problems or complaints. Her duty was to listen to him ("The Good Wife" 2). She was to guarantee that the evening would be peaceful, relaxing, and catered towards him. The main goal for the woman was to make the house a place of serenity and order where her husband could renew himself in body and in spirit.
Women's roles were confined to a small list of responsibilities. As a result, they were seen as a minority. Society convinced women that they weren't capable of performing any work outside of the home. They were to stay home to cook, clean, take care of the children, and any other aspect involving the home. This was their sole responsibility. There wasn't anything else they were allowed or expected to do. Unfortunately this frame of mind developed in women and until only recently has this mindset been challenged by the female gender.
In the short story ?Why I want a wife? by Judy Brady, she goes into detail what being a wife is like. The tedious details of day to day activities, the strain and hard work of being a ?good wife?, and the unappreciated service a wife must perform to be accepted by her husband. This story made me feel like, the author
Like stated earlier, gender roles in the 50’s were very strict and narrow-minded. That being said, women were extremely limited in their role in society. First of all, women were expected to be homemakers. By homemaker, I mean the women w...
Men have a broader, more masculine figure compared to women, being less manly and more feminine-built. These physical disadvantages are the reason why women stayed home to care for their family because it was thought of as too dangerous to be doing the hard “men’s work.” Women were also considered to have been less intelligent, more emotional and less decisive than men. Women had low social status and fewer rights than the men. History states that women are the child bearers who nurse infants which led to the assumption that women hold the responsibilities around the household, while men went out long distances to do the tough work....
The process of mitosis can take place in either a haploid (23 chromosomes) or a diploid (46 chromosomes) cell. Before a cell can be ready for a mitotic division it must primarily undergo its interphase stage. Following the interphase stage several other stages come into play. These stages are prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. During each specific stage certain sequences of events take place that assist to the completion of the division.
In the Prophase, chromosome as double threads joined at centromere and then shorten and thicken. Then nucleolus and nuclear membrane disappears. Fibrils of astral rays extend across forming mitotic spindle. After that centriole divides into two.
In the 1920s-1940s, women were encouraged to step outside of the home and work, but on the other hand, women were also encouraged to be stay-at-home mothers. Women should stay at home if they have the ability to do so. However, women should not feel like they have to be isolated from the rest of the world with chores and children all day.
Times have changed significantly from the 70’s when I was a child. My mother was a stay at home wife for the first 10 years of my life. She cooked, cleaned, and made sure my brother and I were off to school daily. Although she didn’t have an outside job, she as well as many women believed a stay at home mom was a full time job.
In prophase the nuclear envelope breaks down and the nucleolus disintegrates, then the centrosome which is known as the microtubule organising centre, copies itself and these move to opposite poles of the cell and these help to form the mitotic spindle. The chromosomes supercoil and are seen as two identical sister chromatids held together by their centromeres (GENIE, 2010). The next stage prometaphase involves the chromosomes lining up in the middle of the cell on the metaphase plate, the mitotic spindle fibres then bind to the kinetochores of the chromosomes. These are associated with the centromeres on the chromatids (GENIE, 2010). The kinetochore is the centre of the chromosome. The third stage metaphase involves the chromosomes aligning themselves on the metaphase plate ready to enter anaphase. Then anaphase is where the centromeres divide and each sister chromatid is moved to opposite poles of the cell. The spindle fibres are involved in this. They are now referred to as daughter chromosomes. Telophase is the last stage and it’s where the chromosomes relax and nuclear envelopes form around each one, then the spindle fibres break down and the cell divides by cytokinesis. Before cytokinesis though, there is karyokinesis which involves the separation of the genetic material (GENIE, 2010). Cytokinesis is where the cytoplasm divides in two involving a contractile ring
This is sickening because females are humans just like men. This part of her essay begins to weaken because Brady diminishes the pride from the “wife” and treats it in an inhuman matter. To replace a human such as having a divorce requires paperwork and the partner doesn 't deserve a kick to the curb because they have imperfections or seem to not have all the qualities a wife should have. It 's the imperfection in our personalities that makes the human population unique and to treat it as something to be taken for granted is not right. It 's the norms of society that grows us up to think this narrow minded way in believing that women particularly wives are mandated to always cook, clean and go to work, it 's everyone 's responsibility to keep a home clean, men and women. To be pressure to grow up and follow the rules society has been brought up retrains the freedom of individuals to be
Each of the cells have precisely half the number of chromosomes from the original cell. There are many different processes go in this phase so the cell has time to prepare for the second part of meiosis. The only persistent thing is that genetic material does not copy, but in its place it continues to get divided. The next stage is prophase 2 during this phase the chromosomes start traveling to the metaphase plate again, which is at the midpoint of the cell. The next stage is metaphase 2 the chromosomes line up along the center of the cell before it breaks up into two. Then the chromatids point towards the opposite ends of the cell. The next stage is anaphase 2. This is the second to last phase in meiosis and it has many events that happen. The first event is when the sister chromatids separate and move towards the opposite ends of the pole. When this is happening the spindle fibers will lengthen and make the cell bigger. Then the paired chromatids will begin to detach from each other. Now every chromatid pair is considered to be a full chromosome. Now anaphase 2 will start getting ready for the final phase of meiosis. Both cell poles start to move even more apart and now it can be seen as splitting. By the end of this phase each pole
One chromosome has been donated from each parent cell in order to create a homologous chromosome pair. These chromosomes have identical lengths and gene placement but can contain different alleles. When homologous chromosomes attach at the centromere they create a tetrad, which is defined as a pair of sister chromatids. Once the sister chromatids are attached, the non-sister chromatids participate in crossing over. Crossing over is the transfer of genetic information in order to create greater genetic variability. In metaphase I, the centromere of each tetrad attaches to spindle fibers. These spindle fibers slowly shift the tetrads position to the center of the cell until they are side by side. Immediately after they line up, homologous chromosomes are separated by microtubules called kinetochore fibers that are used to pull sister chromatids to opposite poles of the cell. Once the sister chromatids are on opposite poles of the cell, anaphase I is complete and the cytoplasm of the cell begins to separate. This is known as cytokinesis and occurs during telophase. Once meiosis I is complete, meiosis II begins and repeats each step, however, instead of two haploid cells there will be a total of
“Women’s roles were constantly changing and have not stopped still to this day.” In the early 1900s many people expected women to be stay at home moms and let the husbands support them. But this all changes in the 1920s, women got the right to vote and began working from the result of work they have done in the war. Altogether in the 1920s women's roles have changed drastically.
“Husbands’ contribute to housework rose significantly in the 1960s through the mid-1980s, when it topped out at about one-third or one-half of what the average wife did. Men, moreover, tend to gravitate toward more recreational forms of housework, such as yard work and playing with the children, while wives are far more likely to do the essentials: cooking, cleaning, dishwashing, and laundry. Wives are also much more likely to be in charge of organizing and planning family life, creating menus, arranging for child care, making doctors and dentist appointments, and keeping in touch with kin, for example. (p.125)
...and they are too good to clean the house and take care of the children. Women were thought of as the ones to deal with everything and anything that happened to the house during the day while the men worked. Men in society believed women were only meant for simple things like housework.
The role women play in today’s society is a drastic change from the previous role. Women used to be confined to the superiority of the man. Physically, mentally, and emotionally abused, belittled, embarrassed, and silenced. These are just a few examples of the emotion from the isolated treatment of the past. A woman’s role in today’s society is more valued than ever before.