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Essay On Women In America

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Imagine that America is still in its eighties stage. As far as the eye can see, “[g]uyliner” (From Bowie to Adam Lambert, 20 Rock Stars Who Made Guyliner Cool) and grunge clothes take over the scene. Flaming outfits practically drenched in plumage, boas, sequins, glitter, and even sashes with hyper-realistic eyeballs. Artists and bands such as The Cure, Queen, David Bowie, Pete Burns, Culture Club, and the Eurythmics started festering into the radio stations of every home. Within just a few years, America was alive with this sweeping ‘new wave’ of androgyny. People like Madonna and Cyndi Lauper began changing how women come out of their cages, and these ladies became models for young women and girls to be free and confident with themselves. Hundreds of people fell into David Bowie and Freddie Mercury’s flamboyance, opening their minds to sex and to love. People of the eighties had definitely changed how men and women in America should act, and even continued to help change these matters up until today. However, as the days roll on with differentiating views and topics that has caused great uproar in …show more content…

From its first establishment in 1776, America has its standards that have been expected from men and women. Boys are meant to be tough, well-rounded, and capable to provide plenty of wealth and necessities for their families. They have “trucks, dinosaurs, action figures, and video games” (Brewer, List of Gender Stereotypes). On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, women are meant to be pretty, nurturing, delicate flowers that are to be silent and submissive to their higher-ups. They have “frilly dresses and... toy box[es] with tea sets and dolls” (Brewer). In today’s time, luckily, these roles have changed that allows for a more equal society; albeit, that does not halt many people from believing that a man or a woman should look a specific

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Altschuler discusses media commentator Jeff Greenfield’s opinion about the influences of Rock and Roll on American youth. Greenfield states, “Nothing we see in the counterculture [of the 1960’s], not the clothes, the hair, the sexuality, the drugs, the rejection of the reason, the resort to symbols and magic – none of it is separable from the coming to power in the 1950s of rock and roll music.” He continues with “Brewed in the hidden corners of black American cities, its [Rock-n-Roll] rhythms infected white Americans, seducing them out of the kind of temperate bobby-sox passions out of which Andy Hardy films are spun. Rock and Roll was elemental, savage, dripping with sex; it was just as our parents feared.” (Altschuler, 8) Rock and Roll stood as a powerful alternative to the conformist ideals Americans had valued.

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Women throughout history have always been oppressed. They were thought of as objects to create families and keep the husband happy. This began to change when women started to argue for more rights in the 1800’s. It still took many years for women to receive equal rights though. In 1920 women in America were finally granted suffrage, meaning the right to vote.

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The life of Women in the late 1800s. Life for women in the 1800s began to change as they pushed for more rights and equality. Still, men were seen as better than women, this way of thinking pushed women to break out from the limitations imposed on their sex. In the early 1800s women had virtually no rights and ultimately were not seen as people but they rather seen as items of possession, it wasn’t until the late 1800s that women started to gain more rights. The Civil War actually opened opportunities for women to gain more rights, because with many of the men gone to war women were left with the responsibilities that men usually fulfilled during that time period.

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Women in the Progressive Era began with little to no rights at all. They didn't have any other role in society especially for poor white women except to stay at home and do what their husbands tell them to do. Over time women began to give themselves an identity, and rights through feminism, icons, and taking action. They began to make a change and make a bang culturally. Jane Adams on of the first most prominent female activists created this idea of "the new woman," during the Progressive Era.

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During the Progressive era there was a lot of public reform. Women were affected and they also created change thought their movements in this era. Women began working in factories and going to school. They began to have less children and wanted to focus on themselves. “Divorce rates increased because some educated women shunned marriage and believe only remaining single could they play roles they envisioned in the public world (Brinkley, Pg. 481).”

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Women in the Progressive Era The Progressive Era was a time of change across America, a time when the country chose to reform into an industrialized urban country. Prosperity was widespread across America, so people turned to social issues to try to expand. Minorities in particular became a focus of this time period, and everyone tried to find a way to integrate them into society.

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The way society dresses today is inspired by punk rock music. Usually tight jeans, tight shirts, dark clothing, are worn by teenagers who listen to that music because they want to fit in to the “scene” or, trend (Bailey 14). One trend, in the 1960s and ‘70s, is of long, extended songs that focus more on theatric instruments than a lyrical motive. Led Zeppelin is a prominent example of that trend (Hanner Unpopular Culture: The Relationship between Punk Rock and Mainstream Society).

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Were women important to United States history? Let’s be honest, majority of the time women get maybe a few pages in textbooks and are rarely covered in most history classes. The Progressive Era is where this changes; where women are finally brought into the limelight. The role of women within the Progressive Era and the establishment of the welfare system were both audacious and necessary because the welfare system could not have happened without women’s willingness to fight for the society as a whole, not just themselves.

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The 1960s and 1980s had many similarities and differences. Even though they both took place in the 20th century, there were many changes over the span of twenty years. Over time, people’s preferences evolve, political and military forces adapt to changes during their time, and fashion and style change based on the newest entertainment sources. When gathering information from past decades, it can be inferred that politics, entertainment, and fashion hugely impacted everyday life. The 1960s and 1980s had similarities and differences in the categories of music and entertainment, politics and military, and social preferences.

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In the late 1800s, women were becoming increasingly involved in occupations formerly performed by men. By 1870, around 15 percent of women over the age of 16 were employed for wages. Many women began working at this age, with plans to quit their jobs and marry after about six years of work. Many worked at least ten hours a day, six days a week, earning up to 20 cents per hour (or around $450 per year). Some were forced to take in extra tenants, or boarders, to help pay rent.

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The Great Depression’s Effect on Women In October 1929, the Great Depression began with a stock market crash. Spending and investment dramatically decreased until the depression’s end in 1933. By that time, almost half the banks in the country had failed and approximately 15 million Americans were unemployed (History.com editors). American women were especially affected by what is said to be the greatest economic downturn in history.

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Tying into the African American Civil Rights Movement, many other previously disadvantaged demographics such as women began to push for social equality as well, leading to the rise of right liberalism within American society. For example, tired of being treated as “little more than pretty helpers who typed memos and fetched coffee,” women such as Kate Millett began to raise awareness about “sexual politics” (Henretta, 925). These efforts eventually culminated in the passing of Title IX in 1972, which changed the identity of American higher education; prior to Title IX, women’s opportunities in higher education were very limited, but now, “formerly all-male bastions such as Yale, Princeton, and the U.S. military academies admitted women undergraduates

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Women have always played an important role in the history of the United States. Throughout different time periods, their roles in society and in government have changed in many ways. Whether women were helping the war manufacturing effort, striving for suffrage, helping soldiers during the war, or just raising their children; their roles have been influential to the social structure of the United States today. Their desire for equal rights, their willingness to help American soldiers, and the absence of men in the workplace are responsible for the changing role of women.

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