Women's Roles: Plato Allegory To The Cave

It all began when I was a little girl, my great grandmother and grandmother always told me, “that a great woman is always in the kitchen looking out for her husband and putting his needs before their own.” When I was younger I had no other choice in believing in this; especially since I always saw my mother, great grandmother, and all the other women in my family do this. It was a belief that we all grew up with; a belief that I began to accept, but also came to question. Growing up wasn’t easy, I grew up doing chores around my house. For instance, cleaning the toilets, dusting, vacuuming, cleaning the kitchen, helping my mom prepare dinner, and etc. It was all to prepare me to become independent and ready to do that whenever I grow up and have a husband and family of my …show more content…
That 's when I knew that I should be independent and focus on getting a career of my own at would be a 9-5 schedule so I can get a great job help my future husband with bills and manage a family. I wouldn’t just discard the belief I had because it is always the women who has to take care of the family. This is related to “Plato Allegory to the Cave” because at first I only thought that women were suppose to be the ones that clean and cook around the house, because that’s all I ever knew growing up in a hispanic household. But, as soon as I grew up and went to different neighborhood with a variety of ethnicities I noticed that men and women are treated equal when it comes to house chores. It was as if I was stepping out of what I only knew and understanding that there are far many options to do as a women. I learned that women do not only belong in the kitchen and that men do not only belong in offices and at work. There are far more things women can do than men. This also goes hand in hand with the article rule by rape because in this article they believe in different