Gender Roles

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patterns acceptable to
their social roles. These roles have been in a state of flux in American
society in recent years, and men and women today can be seen as having expanded
their roles in society, with women entering formerly male dominions and men
finding new ways to relate to and function in the family unit.

When I was growing up a woman was never heard of having a job other than
a school teacher or seamstress. Our(women's)job was to take care
of the house. We had a big garden out back from which we got most
of our vegetables…A garden is a lot of work you know…We also had to
make clothes when there were none to be had(hand-me- downs)

Gender can be defined as a social identity consisting of the role a
person is to play because of his or her sex. There is a diversity in male and
female roles, making it impossible to define gender in terms of narrow male and
female roles. Gender is culturally defined, with significant differences from
culture to culture. These ...

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modern
era. Industry has been taken out of the home, and large families are no longer
economically possible or socially desired. The home is no longer the center of
the husband's life, and for the traditional wife there is only a narrowing of
interests and possibilities for development: "Increasingly, the woman finds
herself without an occupation and with an unsatisfactory emotional life." The
change in sex roles that can be discerned in society is closely tied with
changes in the structure of the family. Changes in both family structure and
sex roles over the last century have produced the ferment we still see today,
and one of the problems with the changing role of women is the ...

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