I learned from the book that women should have complete equality to men. So, work is still discriminating for the two
sexes, even if the discrimination is not an official one. For example,
if the level of women's working activity has increased since 1970, they
are still the victims of unemployment, of bad jobs, more than men are
anyway. These inequalities are also present in the private life, as
women are the victims of a pervert social progress. For example, even if
women are more and more independent in their couple life, there are
more and more single and divorced women due to that. Why? Well, there
are many reasons. One of them could be the fact that working women don't
have time for a successful private life. Another reason could be the
fact that some men feel intimidated by some women's qualities and can't
stand being inferior to them. At the same time there is a fragile
compatibility between motherhood and career and the family policies that
exist encourage women to give up working for a domestic way of living.
This way, women find themselves forced to give up their independence.
But
even a family life without having children means compromise to women.
It's natural for the women who have a full-time job not to have the
strength to do all that housewives do. The woman's duties at home are
more numerous than the men's, but at the same time, the equality between
women and men force them to work the same time and way at their jobs.
This situation is due to the fact that there are still a lot of men who
think in the terms of the patriarchate system.
There are also men
who treat women socially right, but this situation isn't quite the
happiest, as they somehow forget their manners or act thinking something
like: " If we're equal and we do our own laundry, why should I hold her
coat or open the door for her?!" This is also an abnormal situation.
While in the first case the problem was that women were equal to men
only when it came to work, in the second one the issue is about the
equality that takes away women's right of being respected as women.
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ReplyDeleteJimmy, I completely agree with you that gender roles is huge part of the novel. I also think that women should have complete equality with men because there is nothing that a man can do that a woman cannot. Although this is the case, this is not what is happening in society today. Women are still seen as "not as good as men" which is completely wrong and I really would like to see society perceive women the same way as men. I really do not understand why some people in the world do not think women are as good as men. The issue of gender roles has been going on for quite some time and it is completely outrageous. Women should be seen as equals to men in society today.
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