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Gender Roles In The 1950's

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In the 1950’s, church attendance was at its peak, everyone was rushing to get back to their homes, marry their high school sweethearts, move out to the suburbs, and have children. Somewhere in this mix women as individuals were forgotten again. During the war they were given freedoms and luxuries that today people may scoff at but at the time seemed important. The church played an important role in insuring that women went back to their lives and worked to idealize women into believing that their former roles is all they could play nay all they ever wanted in life. The Jewish people have a prayer that is a clear symbol of the historical treatment of women it thanks God for not making them a women. Before the 1950’s the institution of the church …show more content…

Without quality education about the “natural method” women were unable to properly use the tool given to them, and each time they chose to have sex with the one they loved they ran the risk of pregnancy. The rise of the use of birth control and abortions during this time was proof that not all women desired to have children and become stay-at-home wives. If one could view the occupation as housewife as just an occupation just like a lawyer or teacher. It becomes merely a choice and although to some it may be considered a calling it is not a calling for all women. Therefore if motherhood is a profession it becomes simply a choice and not a …show more content…

Greek philosopher Chrysostom leads people to believe that since women are a part of men they are less than men. This argument does make sense in a mathmatical point of view for obvously a part can never be the same or grearter then the whole but falls short of being right in the moral sense. Chrysostom derivied his belief that since women came from Adam’s rib they were only part of Adam and therefore not a complete and whole individual. In today’s society when looking back on these philosphers it is simple to poke holes in their findings however; one is capable of seeing how their beliefs have influenced thoughts on women today and the belief in their place in the church. Even if the influence is indirect it still had an effect on the people it touches. “Since women are becoming ever more conscious of their human dignity they will not tolerate being treated as mere material insturments but demand rights befitting a human person in both domestic and in public

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The context of the changing roles of women between the periods of 1890-1920 and 1960-1980 are voting rights and equal pay in the workplace. Women's roles have changed a lot over the many years women have gone from being housewives to working in the factories. The roles of women changed from 1890-1920 to 1960-1980 and one of the big changes from 1890 to 1980 is women's voting rights because women couldn't vote in 1890 but they could in 1980. Another one is women in the workforce because in 1890 women were expected to provide for their homes and not work but by 1980 most women worked.

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