American Women In Society Essay

The American history between a man and a woman in the human race has portrayed the woman as a weaker individual and that the man was the rule of the household. This was not only culturally accepted in society, it was the norm of the community. The question that remains is whether or not if this was morally the correct way of living and what rights do man perceive they have within the society? History reveals that centuries when a census was performed, it generally only counted the man; therefore, leaving the women as secondary. This type of sexism was not only portrayed in everyday households it was even the norm during the period of slavery in the United States. Even though this was culturally accepted, there were some man who took their empowerment …show more content…
There were wealthy aristocratic women, white women, native women, and women who were slaves. Aristocratic women were proud in nature but they still where perceived as subordinates of their husbands. They were expected to take care of the spouse and for throwing high society parties with their husband’s social groups. The husband responsibility was to be the bread winner (Colonial Women n.d., 3). Colonial women or settlers wives had the same cultural responsibility; however, their responsibility did not stop there. They were expected to work out in the fields, raise the children, cook and clean, sewing or making of clothes and to obey any command given by their husband; however, as harsh as these task and cultural responsibilities sound, they were the norms of the communities of that time also it was what it took to survive during that time period of American history (Colonial Women n.d., 2). Slave women did not have any rights at all. They were expected to help with any task given by the slave owner. In actuality they were a piece of equipment and expected to work like machinery but again this was culturally accepted but does that make it right? Americans to this day are still arguing this case; unfortunately, we do not have the capability to go back in change time (Colonial Women n.d., 4). We can fictionalize the what if by looking at the norms of society back in that time of history. One