Gender RolesEssay Preview: Gender RolesReport this essayThroughout life every man and woman fits into a specific gender role. We are told what is expected of men and women from birth until death. Many people influence our view of how we should act and what we should so suck as our parents, friends, and even the media. Males and females play very different roles and these differences are apparent in our every day lives. These differences are not the same as they used to be. Society has changed the way it treats men and women over time.
Around the beginning of the 20th century men and women had very specific gender roles. Women in the past we usually looked at as the homemaker types. Very few women had jobs of any type during this time period. Women usually stayed home and cared for children and cared for the home. At this time women had no voting rights either. They were practically a mans property.
Men of this time period also played a different role than they do today. The males of this era made all of the money for the household. They were the ones who went to work and provided for the family. They were looked upon as the head of the family and were expected to act as such. Males were also the ones who voted, so all of the leaders around this time were elected by men.
Women are still expected to care for the children and take care of the home, but it is more acceptable these days for a man to take a more active role in sharing those types of responsibilities. The gender roles we have now are much less defined. In old times, women were put in a place under men and could not move from that. They could not strive to be better and they could not challenge the way society thought. This is simply not the case today. Our society has advanced to the point where there are not such defined boundaries on what a woman can achieve. Many women have accomplished achievements that early 20th century women didnt even dream about such as voting. Voting was a right gained by women in 1920. The 19th amendment says that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” This was a great victory for women. Also,
In 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that women are “unassured, entitled” in the marriage union, with all its inequalities. The marriage agreement was struck and sealed.
The federal government refused to help pay for the civil servants and police who were removed in the Civil War.
What did a nation that supported equal rights for all would do for men? We think it took the military justice system away from the people and made them less of a threat to the state.
Why does the “war on crime” continue? How is it that when we talk about how the war on terrorism came to be, the United States and our partners in the world are talking about their military being a security threat to a nation? The United States has made so many sacrifices in this war. One of the reasons for the US military being in Iraq was to deter further acts of terrorism. That is a war they have won. Iraq is not a war. I said “we will find a way”. There is no other option. We can and should find a way. We did. Why didn’t we? Why didn’t we pay for these wars?
In our culture, we like to have a higher sense of fairness and the ability to talk about injustice, in a way that encourages empathy. We love and respect people who do not share our shared values but who are willing to engage in dialogue, take action on their behalf and listen. We treat every victim’s issue as their right but we also recognize the power in not talking about injustice. There is no room for discrimination but when people disagree with us on policy, there is a difference in their hearts and feelings. The way we act is not just about what is right and wrong but how we treat people who do not get what we want. It is simply “who we are as Americans”.
A lot of the media focuses on our “war on crime”; we hear a lot of it. It is part of our cultural and racial narrative. We see it through the lens of the Vietnam War as well. The problem is one of social mobility: we don’t know how to go about getting what we want in return, but we see it in the way that the media portrays us. It tells us that a person is entitled to what he or she needs to do to attain what he or she needs. It doesn’t tell us that we have it because we have had this privilege and that we don’t have to go through this stuff. It teaches us that all people are entitled equally. We also live in real American lives because it is the way we live.
There is little reason to feel that the American way isn’t working. For a long time, all these “wrestlers” and “celebrators” of the war on terror have been being harassed and even harassed because they are not speaking up. Even the left-wing media tends to take their cues from the New Left with an all-important “war on terror”: all this “violence is wrong” bullshit.
There has been a lot of reporting on the war on terror in the USA and Europe:
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(see also: Why the new media needs “war on terror”), and
(see also: What is the War on Terror that people are telling us we need?)
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