Women’s Lives Throughout Time

Since its founding, women needed to succumb to men's power and authority; from ancient civilizations in Egypt and Greece to the Renaissance women were always ranked behind men. During these two periods, government power, social roles, and family responsibilities changed slowly over time, but male dominant figures were kept in control before the Renaissance. Therefore, by continuing to limit women's progress, by creating an unequal and ordinary social order.

In the late 19th century to the early 1900s American progressive era, women's lives and roles changed dramatically. In the meantime, women began fighting for equality and tried to convince American society that they could provide a lot of things to their country. Although they can not vote at this time, they have succeeded in creating many of the public policies and institutions that we still enjoy today. Women at this time succeeded in voting for educational opportunities and promoting the right to improve it.

In the 1920s, the United States is an era of economic growth, people believe that their money makes them happy and living a frivolous life. This is an era of prohibition and liberation of women. So for those who can afford it, this is the era of gathering, drinking, and wild ladies. People at the bottom of society are constantly striving to achieve economic ladder peaks. This era of Long Island is F. It is the basis of Scotts Fitzgerald's book "The Great Gatsby". It has become a wonderful classic in American literature and is known for its comments on social status. Fitzgerald commented on the social life of the people who lived in their twenties by introducing many "status" oriented characters. But will it focus beyond resolving social status issues to deeper things?

Despite talking about the status of American women in recent years, the actual status of American women has declined from the 1950s to the 1960s and has fallen to an amazing level. 46.4% of American women aged 18 to 65 years are currently working at home, but most of them (75%) are regular office work, sales or factory work, domestic workers, cleaning women, and hospitals I am a worker. About two thirds of black female workers are working in the service industry with the minimum wage. As a result, full-time female workers now earn an average of only 60% of male income, focusing on the bottom of the work ladder - more professional women - - not a few - Wage gap has increased in the past 25 years.