Misogyny In Colonial America

National history of Misogyny. When the British came to America they brought more than smallpox and horses with them they also brought societal concepts with them like misogyny. Women were still expected to be caretakers of the home and mothers while the men went out to work. Overtime as America began to change, and ever so slowly its society followed along. After the American Revolution the Constitution was created, it states that “All MEN are created equal”. There it is, evidence of the european influence America was still under. A man basically owned his wife and children in the same sense that he owned his material possessions. In early America the only person a woman had more rights than was an african american slave, but the differences …show more content…
In colonial Georgia, society was based around agriculture. A woman’s most important task was to be a wife and mother, to create a comfortable home, raise her children and keep her husband happy. The strict societal rules reflected much of the British in this sense. After the American revolution, the south was considered to be the more conservative side of the United States, and during its Antebellum Era the idea that the wife is to serve her family and more importantly her husband was stronger than ever. Ever so slowly women started to get jobs as seamstresses and in textiles, but this was challenging to do in Georgia, considering the economy was heavily dependent on the crop, cotton. Religion was also extremely strong in Georgia, which again had a have influence that women were evil so therefore had to be servile to please God. When the nation as a whole moved toward the equality of women, Georgia dragged its feet. The south as a whole resisted the suffrage of …show more content…
Currently The United State appears to have abolished slavery with the nineteenth amendment. But it still runs wild in the streets. We see misogyny, hidden in the media like movies, books, and music. The music industry especially capitalizes off of its sexualization and objectification of women, majority of the time showcasing them as sexual figures only and sometimes even only as objects to be attained and acquired There is a huge gender pay gap between the sexes. It was reported that in 2014 women received about seventy nine percent of what men earned making it a twenty one percent gap between the sexes.Many believe this gap is either non existent or just now becoming a problem. It is a very real problem that has been diminished since the 70’s, when it was about fifty nine perecent, but this gap should already be demolished. The pay gap also varies regionally, According to data from the American Community Survey, in 2014 the pay gap was smallest in Washington, D.C., where women were paid 90 percent of what men were paid, and largest in Louisiana, where