Housewife

The underlying expectation growing up for a girl is that she will meet a boy who will sweep her off her feet, fall madly in love, then follow the conventional cycle of getting married, having kids, and living happily ever after. The hope of attaining a relationship of such a scenario quickly comes to an end after having kids. In the essay, “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How it was Supposed to Be. How it Was.,” by Hope Edelman, she conveys her rationale on why co-parenting doesn’t occur, as well as…

women haven’t yet to change and she’s not happy with it. She also mentioned that women want more that that they are allowed to do, which is to be able to have a different role than just being a housewife. Women were given a role since long ago such as that being a woman can only stay in the house and be a housewife. Time has changed since, and now that they are capable of doing and handling more roles than they once used to, they want the men to accept that. They want the men to be more…

new significant other, and relieves his personal pain, Cathy is abandoned by not only her husband, but also her friends. Since Frank and Cathy ended up getting a divorce, this meant that Cathy no longer had to play a role, since she wouldn’t be a housewife anymore. Although it seemed as if she would have support from her friends, she is later proved wrong when her best friend, Eleanor, turns her back on her for having such difficult problems. Essentially, compared to Frank, Cathy is the bigger…

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) is a regionalist writer that has several short stories that reflect the themes, subject, and format of the realism period. She is best known for her unconventional stories that focus on the roles of women. She was highly criticized because of her topics: infidelity, sexuality, and divorce. Mary Ann Wilson, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, said in her essay on gender roles that “Kate Chopin posed questions in her novel that challenged current norms and anticipated an…

“The Problem That Has No Name”, was explicit in identifying the internalized misogyny that everyday Americans held to be true. Leading the opposition to supporters of Friedan’s book were many American men who believed that the domestic role of housewife that women had filled for so long should not be tainted or removed. Despite objections to the ideas of women’s liberation preached by Friedan in her book, the female readers felt comforted by the fact that they were not alone in their apathy in…

Women in Classical Athens (508 – 322 BCE) are usually portrayed as submissive and secluded to the house. Most of the evidence to support this theory is from writing. However, the issue is that most of the writing of the time was by men, who were usually biased against women. Most of them have a very negative attitude towards them. Euripides, Xenophon, and Aristophanes wrote about women, usually portraying them as submissive, housewives with little freedom. Euripides was a play write during the…

Women are taught to be the perfect housewife and tend to their husbands. However, many women like Cleofilas do not learn that they are supposed to fulfill this role only when they are in a happy relationship. Cleofilas has to keep telling herself that her husband is not cheating on her, “No…

country. “For many women the Revolution had been a strongly politicizing experience, but the newly created republic made little room for them as political being.” During revolutionary America, women were continually being viewed as the stereotypical housewife that is to keep house and home in a suitable manner for her husband and her family. She…

difficult, as she is constantly confronted both by racism and sexism. Ideally she would marry George Murchison and be taken care of for the rest of her life. However, while Helen Jones sees no option but to marry, Beneatha refuses to fall into the “good housewife” role. Instead, she is adamant about pursuing medicine, a dream for which she is reprimanded; especially by her brother Walter, to whom she angrily says to “forgiver [her] for ever wanting to be anything at all!” (A Raisin in the Sun,…

It is no surprise that men have generally gotten more benefits than females. For example, the wage disparities for men and women are high, despite the job being the same. There are not as many women in top level management positions then there are men. And this is a global phenomenon. This makes one wonder, were women always discriminated against? Well in ancient Roman times, men citizen heads to a family group were the only people with full rights. Even when a family head was not present, women…