Benjamin Franklin Gender Roles

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin explains the life of this amazing man in history. I this autobiography it focuses on the revolution years as one may expect to learn from this biography about Benjamin Franklin’s; origins, family and all the decisions and events that lead him to become the grandfather of the American nation. Due to the deep description of the situations that Benjamin Franklin went through and the different cities that he visited in this autobiography, draws a visual idea of how a lot of things were back then, for example it describes; the social aspect of colonies, how the cities were organized, the way that the government was ran as well, as one of the most important things, how a colonial family used to be like. The …show more content…
Franklin speaks more of the brother’s jobs and almost nothing of the sister’s, this causes the audience to make the assumption that the sisters didn’t have jobs. This would make a lot of sense do to the fact that back then many women didn’t have proper educations. This shows that the female children were being taught how to be the proper wife from birth while the male children where shown how to be hard workers and decision makers like the husbands. The majority of the autobiography, when speaking about the siblings, spoke about the major roles that his brothers held in his early …show more content…
A woman whom lived by herself without a man’s company could make her be seen as vulnerable, but also may be perceived as a “Bad woman”, and we can find this fact from the journey that Franklin made after his first visit to Boston. On the boat where he was traveling he meet a Quaker woman and two young woman that keep her company, as the travel proceeded Franklin keeps “familiarities” with this young woman, but the fact that they encouraged this informal recognition of each other made the quake woman declare them as “bad woman”. This was for the reason that a woman who becomes familiar with a man with who hasn’t been formally intruded could be related to a prostitute, because normally a man whom approached a woman, in order to pursue a woman, were to get involved and after this get married. One of the most notable differences between genders in the colonies, and today is that men used to get paid by the spouse family, and this payment would be according to the gentlemen