She is allowed to stay in the home so long as she cooks and cleans for the seven dwarves while they are away working in the mines gaining their livelihoods. This propagates and normalizes the belief that women belong in the home playing house and raising children, while men are expected to venture out into the workplace and earn a living. Snow White’s cheerful acceptance of her destined role, without so much of a complaint, is also alarming as it transforms her acceptance of an inferior position into a virtue. This portrayed gender role of a woman is the ideal standard, being unwilling to fight or think for herself and having a complacent, helpless personality. This idea has affected the way women of all ages have come to understand their womanhood; they must conform themselves to the silently, helpless and needy standard of womanhood to gain male attention.This idea has impacted generations of young girls to accept the sexist gender role expected of them and normalizes the guidelines and qualities of an ideal woman, so much so, that when they are grown women they become complacent and accepting of the role society has deemed fit for them and conform to the female standard of the classic woman with feminine traits of demureness, empathy, and gentleness if society dictates they are not feminine
She is allowed to stay in the home so long as she cooks and cleans for the seven dwarves while they are away working in the mines gaining their livelihoods. This propagates and normalizes the belief that women belong in the home playing house and raising children, while men are expected to venture out into the workplace and earn a living. Snow White’s cheerful acceptance of her destined role, without so much of a complaint, is also alarming as it transforms her acceptance of an inferior position into a virtue. This portrayed gender role of a woman is the ideal standard, being unwilling to fight or think for herself and having a complacent, helpless personality. This idea has affected the way women of all ages have come to understand their womanhood; they must conform themselves to the silently, helpless and needy standard of womanhood to gain male attention.This idea has impacted generations of young girls to accept the sexist gender role expected of them and normalizes the guidelines and qualities of an ideal woman, so much so, that when they are grown women they become complacent and accepting of the role society has deemed fit for them and conform to the female standard of the classic woman with feminine traits of demureness, empathy, and gentleness if society dictates they are not feminine