Women In The 1930s To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird is a book that shows big issues through the eyes of a young girl named Scout. Scout is very tomboy and doesn't like to wear dresses and likes to fight like a boy. Scout has a hard time understanding the roles of women in the 1930s. She does not understand why the roles of men and women are so different and why women have to always wear dresses and be proper all the time. She does not want to wear a dress to school, but she had to due to women not being able to wear pants to school. The typical role of a woman in the 1930s was to cook, be housekeepers, nursemaids and to maintain the “Social Order”. The social order was to teach the “do’s” and “dont’s” of women to the younger ladies. Women that had jobs were low paying and half of a male's pay, even if it was the same job. Most women worked in factories. Even after a long day of work women had to look nice for her husband, have dinner done and finish everything that needed done around the house. Women had limited rights, they were not able to do any hard labor jobs and some places did not hire married women. Women were allowed to vote. …show more content…
Women tried to hold up a superior, middle class lady as the “Social Code”. Women usually polite, charming, had proper etiquette and spent most of their time entertaining at home. Women were not allowed to leave the house barefoot and usually wore homemade dresses. Women always had to dress up for dinner. To Kill A Mockingbird is a book that shows the roles of women in the 1930s, but Scout doesn't understand them. We have Scout that does not want to follow the roles of the women like dressing nice and following the social order. She doesn't understand why it's the woman's job. We have Aunt Alexandra and Calpurnia show us it is just the proper thing to do. Scout understands these things as she grows throughout the