Do you think the roles of women has changed greatly? If not, to what extent has it changed? If so, can it change even?

I am conducting my own small 'study' that I hope to use with additional research. I want to hear from people, not just from static facts and statistics. So, do you think that the roles of women has changed a lot, or a little, and what can we do to make it better?

I don't want too many facts, just personal oppinion - but a fact or two is just fine in addition. Asked by Sakura 52 months ago Similar questions: roles women changed greatly extent change Society > Women.

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Women's power has seen a very interesting pendulum swing Let's turn our way-back machine dials to back before Christianity. Back to the days of "heathens" or "Pagans" as they are otherwise called. In those times all across the world, women were worshipped as being the most powerful sex.

Their wombs, loins, menstrual cycles, and hormones made them fierce, beautiful, spiritual goddesses. The feminine was sacred worldwide. And women were respected and powerful.

Then let's press the fast-forward button. Somehow, somewhere a couple men got together and decided while forming a new religion that there was no need to worship the feminine - how about the masculine for a change? And thus came the sharpest, most rapid shift in the power of the sexes in the history of our world.

Seemingly overnight women lost their power. They were demoted to the servant sex, the obedient sex, the weaker sex. And from that time on women have battled inch by inch to gain their power back.

And that pendulum has been awfully slow to swing. But if we turn our way-back machines to about the turn of the 20th century, we start to see things speed up a bit. Women were gaining momentum.

And they were starting to demand the vote - among other things. Then came shorter dresses (ok, then followed by longer dresses and higher necklines for a while), and then shorter dresses again. And then we actually started to work outside of the house - even in "man jobs" by the time WWII came around and the men had no choice but to trust us weaklings.

Then we stayed in the workforce, burned our bras, demanded equal pay (which we still haven't gotten), invented a phrase called "sexual harrassment", and now?...... Now we've imprisoned ourselves by forcing ourselves into the workforce. After all we are a society of two-income families now since we need our McMansions and expensive cars. We work to pay the day care costs, then come home and are still forced to head the household.

We've doomed ourselves. This time we didn't even need men to hold us back. We got carried away.

We lost sight of what should've been our goal:To be worshipped. Now we're exhausted, overworked, underappreciated, and still not goddesses. In the grand scheme of things we've gained very little since the Victorian Era.

Except shorter skirts and pants - I'm glad about the whole pants thing. Not sad to see corsets go either. But I long for the day many lifetimes from now when the pendulum will reach its destination and we will be the power-holders.

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I am reasonably young - only 50 - but within my life, it has changed a lot. Growing up in the 60s, I knew that my Mom was weird - she worked afternoons. She was the only Mom I knew that worked.

None of my friends had Moms that worked. And I mean none. And I didn't know any divorced parents either.

And looking back, the Moms and other women that did work seemingly were in stereotypical female roles. My Mom was a bank teller. Other women worked at Pennys or Sears, or maybe in a beauty shop.

I would have fell over if I had went past a construction site and seen a women working at it. In fact, there was some talk in my family if my half-sister would ever get married - I realized much later they were questioning if she was a lesbian - because she got a job with the phone company - but not as an operator, the typical female role, but as a linesman. And she fought the stereotype her whole career, trying to keep out on the line instead of a more support role.

Of course, obviously, those things have changed today. Nearly every Mom works, and in all sorts of roles. Women are in combat roles in the military, they work in police and fire departments and in ever other role.It's a huge and culture-changing paradigm switch.

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Women have more choices now, and I am happy to say that one of those choices is to go to college. It used to be in the 40s and 50s we could only expect to be teachers, nurses or secretaries. We couldn't get credit on our own, live alone, or go into a restaurant to have dinner alone without the management getting nervous or the men thinking you were there for mischief.

We now can have important jobs, get married later in life, choose to have children or not. However, not all women are fortunate to be in a professional category. In lower income groups, the primary caretaker of the children is still the woman, housework, laundry and cooking is still the realm of the woman.

If she can not afford help, in addition to her job, she drops her child off at daycare, picks the child up after work, and starts her second job on domestic chores when she gets home. Thus, the husbands of these wives have benefitted much from the strides society has given to women (a second income), while still wanting a traditional wife in the home. In the meantime, we are trying to do it all, and ending up exhausted and guilty, feeling that we are doing both jobs in half measure..

Absolutely, roles have changed... look back on June Cleaver and look at women today. Women of yesterday catered to their spouses and familes and very rarely had a "life" of their own. Life revolved around being the cook, the maid, the housekeeper, the caregiver, etc.All alone while today, women demand more respect and support from their significant others and families.

Women just can't do it all anymore and actually do something for themselves, too. A good example of this was shortly after my parents were divorced...my dad actually went to the grocery store for the first time in probably 20 years! He balked at how much a box of cereal cost!

We laughed at him. Then, when he had to run a vacuum cleaner and dust and do his own laundry, he actually began to understand and appreciate what my mother had done for him all of those years! Then, shortly after my sister was married, she made dinner and her husband was doing the dishes (they trade...he cooks, she does dishes, and vice versa), and my mother was at their home.

My mother pulled my sister aside and told her to get in that kitchen as dishes were "women's work. " My sister about fell over in laughter...she had to explain that they both lived in the house, and they would both be doing the housework in the house! It was great!

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