Title: History of Gender Roles Research Papers
Headings: History of Gender Roles Research Papers
History of Gender Roles Research Papers
Content: The pursuit of happiness, equality, and democracy should cross gender lines. The daughters of the ideal middle-class urban family can be thanked for erasing the lines of confinement. Along the road to changes in gender roles was the economic and cultural changes that made conditions for women to participate more equally, outside of the predetermined roles of their grandmothers, possible. Free from economic constraints and male dependency, women were now able to explore and expand the opportunities offered in the ever-advancing society of America. These opportunities have given way for women to possess an individuality all their own separate of the expectations placed on the female role of previous generations. Changes in gender roles in American suburbia can be said to originate from the dismissal of double standards presented by the new housewife of the 1950s. Their sense of conflict, although they could not break free from it, allowed their daughters to press on for a movement of liberation that would eventually evoke the necessary changes from generation to generation in a continual advancing society.