Chivalry is not a common word used in today's language. This can be seen because of the slow decline in recent generations. Since women like to show that they are independent in the past there have been movements, research and just opinions from women who prove that chivalry is something that the world is using less of and that maybe it is not a bad thing. Old chivalry is dead, but it should be resurrected into a new chivalry in its place. There have been movements to show that chivalry is not needed for women and one of them was called the Woman's Liberation Movement in the 1960's. This movement pointed out that women need equal treatment in all parts of their life, not just in the workplace but also financially and emotionally on how they do not need a man to support them to live their lives. Woman were expected to follow one path their entire life and it was to devote her whole life to homemaking. In reality women do not need to spend their whole time caring for their husbands or need them financially to have a life. …show more content…
Kathleen Connelly and Martain Heesacker from the University of Florida did a study and wrote "Benevolent sexism is an ideology that perpetuates gender inequality." No matter in what type of tone a man tells women they cannot do something it will still have the same meaning. Connelly also has mention that women are automatically seen as a weak person and that immediately brings them down. That is one of the reasons why chivalry is dead, because when women are seen to have a weak characteristic that immediately tells society that they are not capable of being equal to