To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee demonstrates how many ideas and perspectives have changed in today’s society compared to the 1930s with Scout, the main character. One of the main topics in the novel was gender and gender roles. In the book, gender roles continuously were being enforced throughout with the people of Maycomb, Alabama. Most women stayed at home, dressed up, didn’t go to work while men went to work. So as Scout is growing up, she is pushed by her Aunt Alexandra to act more like a lady, wear dresses, and not play with the boys. But Scout did not want to go with the gender roles that were viewed upon and decided to look past them. Nowadays many women work and gender roles aren’t being looked at the same. Women and men aren’t
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Back then women weren’t able to vote or be in the courthouse so when the trial began in the courthouse women were allowed inside. But when Bob Ewell gets graphic talking about the situation the Judge then requests “that this courtroom be cleared of spectators, or at least of women and children”(174). Women and children then had to leave the courtroom leaving just men inside. In the 1920s there was a law that granted women the right to vote yet women couldn’t be in the courthouse. Nowadays, there are many women becoming juries and that are allowed inside the courthouse. Even so more women rights have popped up and equality has gotten better yet we still struggle with acceptance and equal treating. The first women’s rights convention was in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 since then conventions have grown and become more frequent. Today, a Women’s March takes place in order to “harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social changes”(women’s march.com). This shows another way in which equality is growing and becoming more powerful. Since the 1930s, gender equality has grown so much: women’s march, LGBTQIA rights, equal wages, women pursuing “men” jobs, men doing makeup, women’s rights improvements,
Back then women weren’t able to vote or be in the courthouse so when the trial began in the courthouse women were allowed inside. But when Bob Ewell gets graphic talking about the situation the Judge then requests “that this courtroom be cleared of spectators, or at least of women and children”(174). Women and children then had to leave the courtroom leaving just men inside. In the 1920s there was a law that granted women the right to vote yet women couldn’t be in the courthouse. Nowadays, there are many women becoming juries and that are allowed inside the courthouse. Even so more women rights have popped up and equality has gotten better yet we still struggle with acceptance and equal treating. The first women’s rights convention was in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 since then conventions have grown and become more frequent. Today, a Women’s March takes place in order to “harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social changes”(women’s march.com). This shows another way in which equality is growing and becoming more powerful. Since the 1930s, gender equality has grown so much: women’s march, LGBTQIA rights, equal wages, women pursuing “men” jobs, men doing makeup, women’s rights improvements,