MEN AND WOMEN DIFFERENCES
A gender role is a set of expectations that decide how females or males should think, act, or feel.
Traditional home-maker/breadwinner type is a household in which the husband only works and his wife runs the home.
The mixed type is a household in which the wife's work is less absorbing than the husband's, and therefore, she takes on more of the household tasks and looks after the children.
In an egalitarian type household, both male and female partners have equally absorbing work; household tasks and looking after the children are shared equally.
as the woman's wages increase, the number of children decrease. This shows that in the family structure, women do not feel that it is possible to be a caretaker of a large family and also have a successful career, leading many women to make a choice between the two.
Many women still want to have a career either in addition to family or solely. The fact that women have more opportunities and agency in their role is leading to more demands on their part for equal relationships. Many feel that if women are regarded as equals in the workplace, why aren't they regarded as equals in the home also?
In the years before the civil war - a single unit working together in an agrarian community for survival. the industrial revolution - the man went to work and the women stayed home to take care of the children. The 1920’s marked the first sexual revolution with women becoming more concerned with individuality and more women entering the workplace during the wartime society After the Great Depression and World War II, the decade of the 1950’s was a movement back to very traditional dynamics for gender roles. The economic climate of the country allowed for the women to return to the home and take care of the children The 1960’s and 1970’s marked another period of desire for individualism and women’s rights. In the most recent decades, we have not seen an extreme gain in desires for egalitarian marriages compared to the 1970’s.
In the model family of the 1950 s, the man was the sole breadwinner (Today only 9. 8%) There are some changes in a role of a father. The depiction of men as more compassionate and nurturing in advertising is evidence for a change in the previous stereotypes of fathers as aggressive. The second example of change is increased desire for and evidence of flexibility in the man's work schedule so that he can be at home more. The third example is resistance by males to job relocation.
Nowadays the woman is still doing the majority of the housework. While men's participation has increased, their contribution to family work is still only a third of their wives.
Does family background have an effect on gender roles? What gender roles would you like to see in your own family?