How Has The Development Of Women's Roles Changed From 1965 To The Present?

Have you ever wonder how the women’s right and roles have changed or shifted between 1965 to the present? People strongly see the progress and small development of women's roles in family and societies as time changed. History has strongly shown that women were seen as workers of the home who takes care of children, cook, and clean the house while the men were workers of the outside who provides money, food, and work. Even though women were limited in participation in the government and had roles only in the home, overtime this role has evolved and showed a progress of equal rights. There may still need for small improvements in women's equality today like woman and man equal wages, but history has shown a lot of progress on women’s rights

society. For example, letting women vote, letting women get same wages, and allow women to take a role in the government like being able to be a senator. The fight for rights let women be heard and able to have equality like a man. As Elizabeth stated in the beginning of chapter 12,

Although none of these groups achieved their ultimate goal of creating a perfectly just society-what President Lyndon Baines Johnson called the Great Society-they changed many laws and practices within the United States. Legal segregation came to an end. No ethnic or racial group could be paid less than another, and women could no longer legally be paid less than men (or be beaten by their husbands). The very words that people spoke, and the jokes that they told, changed as the legacy of racism, sexism, ageism, and all the other “isms” came under attack. (362)

The civil rights movement gave people like a woman and African American opportunities to fight back and stand up for their belief in equality. Although it took a long time and couldn’t achieve their initial goal, they were able to change laws to allow equality for a woman along with African American. This shows the progress of women and racial

This gender role has slowly shifted throughout time. In the late 1890’s and into the 1900’s sources shows that woman has slowly had the same role as a man. The woman was able to immigrate to another country to work and provide money like the man. This man’s role would have been impossible for a woman to take part of it in the early age because of strict gender rules. In Mark Wyman’s essay titled “Coming and Going: Round-Trip to America”, he said that “In the decade ending in 1910, in fact, almost 70 percent of all immigrants into the United States were males, mainly young males. Women continued to arrive, but many found work not in the factories but as servants, or they remained within family groups” (88). A woman may have been limited in working in factories but was able to have the option to immigrate to another country to work and provide money. They were allowed to work outside of the home like the man did. This is similar to the documentary we watched during the semester called Rosie the Riveter. Women were not able to work in factories, but in the late 1930’s when the men were drafted into World War 2, factories were out of workers so they needed women to take the men's place in the factories to work. They were unable to take care of the children and clean the home since their work was at the factories and very busy with the hours