IN FAMILLY.

We look at women and their roles in the last fifty years and realise 

that depending 

On our culture or how we were moulded as children, women can have many 

different roles. The most common for women is attending to men, the 

house and bearing their children, this role is called the housewife. 

We have always been expected to be weaker and maternal, some women 

have shown that they can be stronger than men by taking on their roles 

as well as their own but sometimes not by choice for example: single 

parenting, poverty (where no work for men and women work the streets 

etc), illness and even maybe religion. 

Since equal rights and opportunities came into force, more couples are 

both working, more mums have help to go back to work, men are doing 

their fair share of the house work and also couples are making equal 

decisions. Women by now were also able to use contraception to prevent 

having a high quantity of children, which gave them a bit more 

freedom. 

Since 1970 families have become more equal and privatised, it wasn't a 

big change for men as from 1950 families started to slowly progress 

towards being symmetrical. 

There are many benefits when families become more equal, it can take 

pressure off one another due to sharing roles and even if the wife 

takes up a part time or full time work this can help them financially 

but a vast majority of women prefer to remain as housewife's this due 

to high maternal instinct. 

Now a days children are listened to by their parents more, as before 

children they didn't have a say in what they wanted to do, boys were 

sent to school to get a good career and girls were kept at home to 

learn house skills. These days both genders can get an education and 

its quite normal for children to go to crèche as young as 1 year old, 

this helps them to interact and to learn social skills