Changes in Gender Roles Changes in Social Structure
The United States • Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) fought for women’s rights to vote, obtain professional jobs, participation in public affairs, and formal education in the Seneca Falls convention in New York 1848
• During WWII women entered the work force to replace men who went off to fight and kept their jobs after the war
• The Nineteenth Amendment allowed suffrage regardless of sex • African slaves were liberated 1865 in the conclusion of the American civil war
• Suburbanization led the family structure to have stay-at-home wives who raised their children against communist threats while their husbands worked to support the family with a single paycheck
• The Civil Rights movement …show more content…
• Marie Antoinette was also a supporter of women’s rights
• Olympe de Gouges published a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
• The Second Sex, written by French writer Simone de Beauvoir, spoke of the second-class status of women
• Women were given the right of suffrage after the conclusion of the Second World War • The Ancien Regime was dissolved, which allowed little power to a majority of the population as the poor were put under a single vote in a three-way election
• The French Revolution left social distinctions though they were abolished and they didn’t seem to show major change in structure until the Great War and WWII
• After WWII many social classes evened out and many social distinctions became blurred
• The white collar and blue collar workers were new emerging classes in the middle class workforce
China • As communism arose in China, women were given equality to men
• Women’s legal status improved and in 1950 a marriage law was passed in which was based on free choice of the partners and equality between the sexes
• Women had equality in areas of work, inheritance, and ownership of …show more content…
• Child betrothals were also diminished
• China’s one child policy made for “missing” girls in the population as they were subject to abortion or female infanticide
India • Women were given higher positions in power such as Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) and Benazir Bhuto were leaders in politic of India and Pakistan
• Women’s illiteracy was at a peak of 54% in 2001 because women were confined to the household
• 25% of women of all ages had jobs and birth rates stayed high, tough contraceptives and birth control is available
• Dowry deaths have become more prominent in Indian society in which wives are burned if their husbands do not like their in-laws • The Indian people were no longer treated as second class citizens as India gained its independence under the leadership of Mohandas Gandhi
• Sikh populations wanted greater autonomy in India
• Birth control was promoted by Indira Gandhi tried to slow the population growth to prevent mass starvation among the large peasant class
• Indira Gandhi’s “green revolution” provided more agricultural yields for the population of India, but it further drove the poor population into poverty because only wealthy famers profited from it
Ottoman Empire/ Turkey • Women’s conditions are still
The United States • Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) fought for women’s rights to vote, obtain professional jobs, participation in public affairs, and formal education in the Seneca Falls convention in New York 1848
• During WWII women entered the work force to replace men who went off to fight and kept their jobs after the war
• The Nineteenth Amendment allowed suffrage regardless of sex • African slaves were liberated 1865 in the conclusion of the American civil war
• Suburbanization led the family structure to have stay-at-home wives who raised their children against communist threats while their husbands worked to support the family with a single paycheck
• The Civil Rights movement …show more content…
• Marie Antoinette was also a supporter of women’s rights
• Olympe de Gouges published a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
• The Second Sex, written by French writer Simone de Beauvoir, spoke of the second-class status of women
• Women were given the right of suffrage after the conclusion of the Second World War • The Ancien Regime was dissolved, which allowed little power to a majority of the population as the poor were put under a single vote in a three-way election
• The French Revolution left social distinctions though they were abolished and they didn’t seem to show major change in structure until the Great War and WWII
• After WWII many social classes evened out and many social distinctions became blurred
• The white collar and blue collar workers were new emerging classes in the middle class workforce
China • As communism arose in China, women were given equality to men
• Women’s legal status improved and in 1950 a marriage law was passed in which was based on free choice of the partners and equality between the sexes
• Women had equality in areas of work, inheritance, and ownership of …show more content…
• Child betrothals were also diminished
• China’s one child policy made for “missing” girls in the population as they were subject to abortion or female infanticide
India • Women were given higher positions in power such as Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) and Benazir Bhuto were leaders in politic of India and Pakistan
• Women’s illiteracy was at a peak of 54% in 2001 because women were confined to the household
• 25% of women of all ages had jobs and birth rates stayed high, tough contraceptives and birth control is available
• Dowry deaths have become more prominent in Indian society in which wives are burned if their husbands do not like their in-laws • The Indian people were no longer treated as second class citizens as India gained its independence under the leadership of Mohandas Gandhi
• Sikh populations wanted greater autonomy in India
• Birth control was promoted by Indira Gandhi tried to slow the population growth to prevent mass starvation among the large peasant class
• Indira Gandhi’s “green revolution” provided more agricultural yields for the population of India, but it further drove the poor population into poverty because only wealthy famers profited from it
Ottoman Empire/ Turkey • Women’s conditions are still