Title: History of Gender Roles Research Papers
Headings: History of Gender Roles Research Papers
History of Gender Roles Research Papers
Content: Struggling to find their own position in a fast changing society they were unable to adequately instill in their daughters the new gender role defined for them in the profound social transitions of suburbia. 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. The younger generation of women in the 1950s instituted a gradual change in gender based attitudes due to their observations of their own mothers that possessed a contradicting sense of female values. This culminated in dramatic changes in roles and behavior by the 1970s, of the urban female. 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.