Women's Roles in Marriage

Women's Roles in Marriage

Many women today have faced inequality in their role as a married

woman. The traditional role of the expressive role by women and

untraditional instrumental role taken on by man is seen as the norm in

many households. But this has varied amongst many cultures, but the

traditional female role still remains in the ethnic minority. My aim

is to investigate whether there has been a change in attitude to a

woman’s role within the family, between younger and older Asian women.

The formation of new norms and values has been influenced possibly by

mainstream education with its emphasis on careers and achieving to

full potential.

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CONTEXT AND CONCEPTS

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A context for this topic is Bhatti’s findings about the Asian family

life. She found that the ‘ izzat ’ i.e. family honor was taken very

seriously, with particular emphasis placed on behavior of daughters.

Bhatti found that mothers saw their role as being of paramount

importance. This clearly indicates the traditional view of the

‘expressive role’, which is seen and accepted normal amongst Asian

elder women of the first generation. The effect of ‘izzat’ may have

forced the women to completely accept it. This meant that the men were

left to provide for their families as they too saw themselves as heads

of the households.

Statistics have shown that females, with great emphasis on those of

ethnic minority, are increasingly engaged in managerial and

professional jobs. This means that generations born in the range

1940-59 had only 25% of Indian women working. But 20 years later the

second generation, there had been a r...

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being kept confidential which make their answer to be a lie could

cause the low validity. They may have the influence of another

individual, which would make their answer not their own. The

respondent may not even realize the change in attitudes i.e. there may

think its normal for women to do housework and not work, even though

it’s about personal choice.

The misunderstanding of the questions could cause problems as they may

not really know what the question is asking, unlike the research

method like interviews where the interviewer is present to clarify any

queries, so they may put down anything or nothing at all leaving he

place blank. Another problem would be he questionnaires are not open

to people who are illiterate or disabled for example blind, whereas

other methods such as interviews could suit this.