Gender roles have evolved significantly in the past two centuries. From females not having equal basic rights compared to males in the late 1800’s, to now females marching openly in Washington D.C to protest elections. When writing “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen really showed what the roles of male and female were like in the late 1800’s. Between now and then there have been plenty of movements for a woman to be treated as equal as a man, and in today’s western world women are not conforming to the norm just as the generations before them did.
In the story, “A Doll’s House”, modern society can see how gender roles were portrayed in the late 1800’s between man and woman; almost everything needed to be approved of by either a women’s father …show more content…
One of the first movements was for woman to gain the right to vote. The campaign for woman voters started in 1848, and it took seventy-two years for the campaign to become successful. (National Women's History Project, n.d.) By the time the second wave came around Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act had passed, prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race, religion, and national origin. (National Women's History Project, n.d.) This meant females were now were more likely going to be able to have career paths such as lawyers or doctors without facing workplace discrimination. In the nineties the third wave of feminism came around; the purpose of this wave was to abolish gender expectations. (The Untitled Magazine, 2015) In the story “A Doll House” the main character Nora told her friend Mrs. Linde that money had been very tight and both her and her husband “…have both had to work.” (Ibsen, 2008) This surprised Mrs. Linde because typically woman did not work at this time; women took care of the household and reared the children. Society has come far from looking down on women for working for money in the late 1800’s to woman being able to get into any profession without facing discrimination or gender expectations.
In the story, “A Doll’s House”, modern society can see how gender roles were portrayed in the late 1800’s between man and woman; almost everything needed to be approved of by either a women’s father …show more content…
One of the first movements was for woman to gain the right to vote. The campaign for woman voters started in 1848, and it took seventy-two years for the campaign to become successful. (National Women's History Project, n.d.) By the time the second wave came around Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act had passed, prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race, religion, and national origin. (National Women's History Project, n.d.) This meant females were now were more likely going to be able to have career paths such as lawyers or doctors without facing workplace discrimination. In the nineties the third wave of feminism came around; the purpose of this wave was to abolish gender expectations. (The Untitled Magazine, 2015) In the story “A Doll House” the main character Nora told her friend Mrs. Linde that money had been very tight and both her and her husband “…have both had to work.” (Ibsen, 2008) This surprised Mrs. Linde because typically woman did not work at this time; women took care of the household and reared the children. Society has come far from looking down on women for working for money in the late 1800’s to woman being able to get into any profession without facing discrimination or gender expectations.