Tabulate roles each for men and women in relationships and weather they have changed over time
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Changes of the Roles of Men and Women in the Last 30 years
The roles of men and women have changed in the last 30 years. In this report I intend to explain what the roles of men and women were like 30 years ago and what the roles of men and women are like now. I will also give details of why these changes have occurred.
30 years ago the roles of women were very different to that of today. At the start of our nation's history, women were socialized to attend exclusively to home and family tasks.
For a woman, marriage was considered to be a girl's destiny. Their academic curriculum reflected preparing girls for their life as a housewife and a mother, having domestic sciences instead of the more …show more content…
Men were the sole bread-winners. They were also the disciplinarians, which meant women had even less power.
'Father' worked hard, demanded respect and obedience from his children, and saw little profit in personally involving himself in their nurturance. The image of father was a role model. About 1969, Social Learning Theory posed the father conceptually as the role model for masculine traits in their children. Sons learned to be men from their fathers, daughters learned to want this type of man for boyfriends and husbands (Bandura, 1969; Skolnick, 1992).
30 years on there has been a lot of progress for women, for example equal wages, which is because of the legal pay act, which has in turn led to there being much more women in the workforce. More and more women want to stay on at education, as the subjects are the same for males and females, and there is much more emphasis on expanding careers. The popularity of marriage has plummeted as women now have higher expectations.
Another important reason for women to be able to go to work is the help of nurseries and the increasing improvements of child care, meaning women can still have children and now careers as well.
Other changes have occurred in the last 30 years, such as the outlawing of rape within marriage, the outlawing of child abuse and the legislation of abortion, which makes it more socially acceptable.