Gender Roles In Society

In the nineteenth century, women’s rights had yet to be acknowledged. Men were the ones who would work and provide for the home, while women had to do all of the house chores and could not doanything without permission from their husbands. Girls were given less education and they could not attend college. They could not follow a profession and the only jobs they could get were all low-payingjobs. Women who remained single were disapproved by society. The only choice that remained for them was to marry and do the housework. The story “A doll’s house”(Henrik Ibsen) is a story set in thenineteenth century. It gives a prime example of how things worked in the late 1800’s. The husband, Helmer, was the one who worked and was in charge of the family while Nora, the wife, was in charge of thehousehold.
Gender roles in society have greatly changed over the years. In the twentieth century, women had begun standing up for their rights of equality. They had succeeded in getting therights to vote and started to gradually integrate into the male dominated work-force. Once World War II came women were brought into labor to make up for the shortage of men. After the war many womenstayed in their jobs to further their careers. Women no longer had to remain secluded in their homes. Now their options are broadening and new jobs are available to them.

Gender roles in modernsociety have now found equal grounds. Women have the same rights as men. The roles in household have also changed drastically. Men are not the fully dominant figure as they were before. Currently, thelevel of respective dominance is equally relevant. They both share the household work or the roles are completely reversed. The husband can stay at home taking care of the kids and housework whilethe wife can work and provide for the whole family. This has become thanks to efforts of many women exclaiming that they can do the role of the breadwinner. Even with freedom to be allowed to be a...