Theme Of Gender Stereotypes In Adam's Rib

In the movie, Adam’s Rib, you are watching a battle between a man and a woman who happen to be husband and wife. They are battling the courtroom over Mrs. Attinger’s fate of being guilty or not. In the course of the movie, Amanda, the wife, is trying to prove that women should be equal in the court of law and that Mrs. Attinger is not guilty of the attempted murder of Beryl Caighn. On the other hand, Adam, the husband, is trying to prove that Mrs. Attinger is guilty of the attempted murder of Beryl Caighn and that women should not be equal in the court of law. In trying to prove their sides of the case, the sexes are set against each other. The movie explores the different ways that the different gender stereotypes are bent and how the stereotypes …show more content…
This is partly the reason why women often did not go to school after high school and there was a time when women did not even make to high school if they got any form of education. An example that women being smarter than men occurs in Adam’s Rib is when, again, Amanda is questioning women on the stand and she has one of her witnesses, that is a women, state off the different degrees she has from college and she then has to ask the judge if he wants the ones from other countries leading her to name off more of her degrees. She does this to prove that if you give women the opportuntiy, they can go as far as they want to men just have to be willing to give them the opportunity to show what they can do. You could also say that there is the example of how you have a women, Amanda, and a man, Adam, being the lawyers for this case and the jury’s decision in the end is that Mrs. Attinger is not guilty which means that Amanda, the women, won the trial beating Adam, a man. Showing that they were at an even playing field and the women came out on top in comparison to the man. A woman is smart just let her be smart and you can be surprised at what they can do. An example that shows the gender stereotype of women not being smart and being a stereotypical woman is Mrs. Attinger and how she is a wife and mother. She stays at home and takes care of the kids meaning that she does not have a job that is outside of the house. Her house and her family are her job and that is all she thinks about and all she cares about. She has no life outside of her household and she seems to have accepted that thought because that is all she has known and that the matrons in her family