Title: History of Gender Roles Research Papers
Headings: History of Gender Roles Research Papers
History of Gender Roles Research Papers
Content: It can therefore be determined that the greatest influence on the shift of social gender ideology was that of the suburban housewife of the 1950s. Changes found in the female role from 1950 to 1970 could be found in all areas of social interaction. Changes in marital status was one such shift. Rather than embracing the view that females were incomplete without a husband, more women remained single. This also influenced the traditional role of being dependent on a man for economic reasons. More and more women were now entering the workplace. This altered the female perspective of the past that they needed a husband and family do be completely happy. By the 1970s the past disdain for ‘old maids’ was now unthinkable. Opportunities for women were broader than ever and this fueled the onslaught of continued changes in gender identified roles. Another area of change was that of a sexual revolution among the women of suburbia.