Gender Roles have changed a lot from Shakespeare 's time. Today 's women are achieving more in education. They are finding jobs and working full time or part time. Some evening being the breadwinners in their family. Many women are striving for a high paying career where as men and boys are less interested in school to show off masculinity.
Women and girls are achieving more than boys in education and careers., where as before not many had an education and their main goal was to stay at home and work. To take care to things at home or take care of the child. …show more content…
They are more accepting the fact that women are being more independent. A New York Times articles, “Why Gender Equality Stalled” Written by Stephanie Coontz, found that “As late as 1977, two thirds of Americans believed it was ‘much better for everyone involved if the man is the achiever outside the home and the women takes care of the home and family.’ By 1994, two thirds of Americans rejected this notion.” From 1977 to 1994 peoples opinions about whether or not the men should be the only one working and the women be at home with the kids changed drastically. this show that gender roles really have changed. In 1977 two thirds of people though that the man should be the breadwinner and the women should be at home working, but then by 1994 two thirds of Americans rejected this idea. A PEW Research Paper : “ Public Views on Changing Gender Roles by Wendy Wang, Kim Parker and Paul Taylor showed that “only 18% of all adults agreed that ‘women should return to their traditional roles in society.’ Fully eight-in-ten adults (79%) rejected this idea. The gender roles because back then all women did was their traditional roles. They stayed at home and most people agreed with it, but now more adults, almost 80%, of adults think that women should not return to their traditional roles in society. Gender roles have changed because people are more open minded about women working outside the home. Most of the population …show more content…
They are suppose to be masculine, but in the play “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare. Beatrice is a character who seems to be very independant and seems to have a lot of control for a women of that time. She is able to say to Benedick, a man to “Kill Claudio”(172) and Benedick ends up going to Claudio, his best friend and challenging him to a duel. This shows that gender roles have changed because women at time or before that time could not have that kind of power over a man. To be able to get a man to go challenge his best friend in a fight because she told him to. A man was suppose to have the authority, but Beatrice is able to get a man to chase her for her love and get him to go against his best friend. For the first half of the play Beatrice seems to be talking to Benedick like his equal or like she is better than him, but during this time women could not talk to a man like they were even close to equal. They are constantly arguing for the first half of the play. Beatrice insults Benedick by saying stuff like “A bird of your tongue is better than a beast of yours” or “Scratching could not make it worse an ‘twere a such a face as yours” They are arguing and Beatrice is insulting Benedick who is a man and suppose to be masculine and to be looked up to. He is suppose to have the authority but Beatrice is talking to him and insulting him as if she had more power than him or as if they were