Black and Caucasian women experience the same reproductive development and processes; however environmental, social, and physical dissimilarities cause them to have divergent outlooks on womanhood. Although societal gender norms attribute certain characteristics to women in general, unique gender norms also exist within the black and white women subpopulations. Such differences can be attributed to contrasting female gender roles of black and white culture during the 20th century. During the 19th century when slavery was legal, black slave women were responsible for caring for the white slave owner’s children in addition to their own, cooking for the slaves and the slave owners, and cleaning. Still today, many black women are thought of as
