Sex gender roles have traditionally has been that a man is more dominant and that the women be submissive and listen to the man. This has changed a lot from them in the modern world that we live in. Yet there is still things that the women and men still do that follows the traditional pattern. One example of this is how men have always had a violent nature within them.
Gender roles back during the Shakespearean era are what is now known as “traditional” and now with a more profound way of thinking the way that we witness sex in life now has changed; more specifically with women. During the shakespearean era its was common that a women would have to get married have kids and then have to be a stay at home mom. The women of this era always …show more content…
One of them being the way that women are looked at when it comes to the way that they contribute to society. During Shakespearean era the women were seen as useless when it came to anything outside of house work and pleasing her man. When a women can’t complete these tasks she is seen as useless. An example of this is Hero in the book Much Ado About Nothing because she was given to Claudio to be a wonderful wife. Then the rumor came that she was a whore he returned her to her father saying, “sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.There, Leonato, take her back again. Give not this rotten orange to your friend.” (152) Claudio states that she has no use now comparing her to a rotten orange which has no use. This was very typical back in Shakespearean era because the man was the one that labeled the women and her worth. Now it is much of the same but it relates to more to women’s role in the workplace and how much they earn. Money now is a universal sign of how much someone is worth and the fact someone don’t earn as much as men leads to conclude that they don’t have as much worth as men. A statistic from CBS News in June 17, 2012 states, “women get paid roughly 82 cents for every dollar a man earns.” Even though the gap between men and women and how much they are paid has been reduced there is still a gap. Women not getting paid the same as men leads to
Gender roles back during the Shakespearean era are what is now known as “traditional” and now with a more profound way of thinking the way that we witness sex in life now has changed; more specifically with women. During the shakespearean era its was common that a women would have to get married have kids and then have to be a stay at home mom. The women of this era always …show more content…
One of them being the way that women are looked at when it comes to the way that they contribute to society. During Shakespearean era the women were seen as useless when it came to anything outside of house work and pleasing her man. When a women can’t complete these tasks she is seen as useless. An example of this is Hero in the book Much Ado About Nothing because she was given to Claudio to be a wonderful wife. Then the rumor came that she was a whore he returned her to her father saying, “sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.There, Leonato, take her back again. Give not this rotten orange to your friend.” (152) Claudio states that she has no use now comparing her to a rotten orange which has no use. This was very typical back in Shakespearean era because the man was the one that labeled the women and her worth. Now it is much of the same but it relates to more to women’s role in the workplace and how much they earn. Money now is a universal sign of how much someone is worth and the fact someone don’t earn as much as men leads to conclude that they don’t have as much worth as men. A statistic from CBS News in June 17, 2012 states, “women get paid roughly 82 cents for every dollar a man earns.” Even though the gap between men and women and how much they are paid has been reduced there is still a gap. Women not getting paid the same as men leads to