CHANGES IN LIFESTYLE AND SOCIETY OF INDIA SHIVANI VERMA RAFFLES MILLENNIUM INTERNATIONAL
Change in lifestyle is always slow yet dynamic, it’s impact can be felt by the passage of time but at an instant we can never see any change occurring in our lifestyle but once we look back at time we realize that every thing has changed. It is this uniqueness of change in our lifestyle that we don’t even realize that anything has changed and we have already adapted to the change.
WHAT CHANGES SHOULD BE CONSIDERED TO BE A PART OF CHANGE IN THE LIFESTYLE
It is a very basic question in everyone’s mind when we are thinking about the changes in lifestyle,
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They are getting involved in all the fields in order to improve their position and image in front of the world. They wanted to be considered equal to men. They didn’t want to feel neglected by anyone. They wanted to make their own place instead of depending on men. Their condition improved in the domestic sphere. They were treated well as wives and mothers. They didn’t have to face the domestic violence. They were not going through the same condition. They had control over their lives they didn’t depend on anyone. They were free to take their own decisions. Due to social and legal changes If a woman didn’t want to have a child they could get it aborted. They had control over contraception and divorce. The role of women in society was rapidly changing with growing feminism all over the world. We can’t deny that women in India have made a remarkable progress in the last fifty years but yet they have to struggle against many social evils in the society. The Hindu Code Bill (The Hindu code bill is the bill which refers to many laws that were passed in the 1950s to arrange and reform Hindu personal law in
It was an especially hard time on the women because they had more duties now that their husbands have left the household to fight for the
Their actions proved that they were mentally capable of more than previously believed. Now women were expected to keep the morale of the household intact by supporting her husband (Berkin 154). A woman was also expected to educate her children in the same values of the republic, a role that use to belong to a male. However, now she was able to learn enough about government, politics and philosophy in order to teach her children to become good citizens (Berkin 155). 5)
They were no longer women of demand and home assist, but now independent and simply underrated people. They were now people that are able to accomplish similar things as the opposite gender. This new mentality provided an improved view on the human race. Now more than ever, people could be united. Once one had acted upon their interests and goals an entire unused outlook was ‘born’.
However, they were still suffering from equal rights with men. Women were only seen as “child bearers” and the head of the house, but rarely could make decisions about their pregnancy which often led to
“In the middle of a crazy drunk life, you have to hang on the good and sober moments tightly.” (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie page 216) This is a quote from the book that shows how Junior learns how to appreciate the good moments in life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie the character Junior faces problems caused by drinking. The book starts off with his family living on the Indian reservation suffering from poverty and death.
Their fathers and husbands would use them as slaves, housewives, objects, etc. They were seen as property to their fathers and husbands. Once a father chose a husband for his daughter, her husband would basically own her. He would misuse and abuse her.
Indian Boarding schools were created in the 1800s to “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” They achieved this by transforming the natives looks, culture, language, and teaching them a certain way so they would be able to function in a “european society”. Indian boarding schools taught students both academic and “real world” skills, but they did so while ripping the indians from their culture. Most indian boarding schools were the same with their tactics in transforming the native man into a white one.
Agriculture changed from subsistence to for-profit based around 30 million pounds of tobacco. F. Women and the Family 1. The ratio of women to men was obnoxiously high 2. Women’s rights were not assumed from Indian culture, they were less important.
They had no will of knowing what was in the meat they were feeding their children. They had no idea that their daily medications for their children were infused with harsh drugs such as heroin and cocaine. Little did they know, they started a ballot for women rights and voting. If women's rights were evaluated, there wouldn’t be such commission and hatred. The laws would slowly flow easier and better
They had a chance to become a freemen and see the best side of Pennsylvania that everyone talks about. Women were on the unpleasant experience of Pennsylvania as well as they were seen unimportant compared to men. Women had no legal rights as everything in their lives was covered by the husband. They did not get the chance to own any property or money as it belongs to the husband whether if it was her family’s land to begin with.
In World War 1 a lot changed for the United States. One things that changed was their foreign policy. We know it changed because they went from a period of isolationism to being involved in world affairs. We are going to look at how the war changed American society, why they entered the war, and the foreign policy change. During World War 1 a lot changed about American society.
The husbands would have power over their wive's income and property. The husbands made it difficult for the wive's to leave their homes or divorce because divorce was not an option, the wive's would have to immorality sin on their husband to be divorced. The women's that lives in the 1960's who worked accordingly their jobs were teachers, nurse, and secretary. Nevertheless the women's could not attend programs like medical school, they were kept out of any ordinary occupation of their choices, but in the 1960's there was a small amount of women that were doctors, lawyers and the women's where discrimination on their salary, therefore the man's salary was much higher and was not giving the women a fair partnership. The women could not excel in their jobs because the employers thought the women would quit or become pregnant.
There were high standards for women in society as well as in the home, as their main job was to be
Women were subject to a wide-ranging discrimination that marked them as secondary citizens, which is what gilderlehrman.org says. “She had no right to own property in her own name or to pursue career of her choice.” In addition, the article states, “Women could not vote, serve on juries, or hold public office.” Women didn’t have any rights that they wanted and were mostly not allowed to do anything which is unfair. A married woman had no separate legal identity from that of her husband.
They controlled what the woman was able to do, how the woman was seen. Any rights that a woman had was mostly due to inheritance. The main method of women gaining any sort of power was through their sons, especially when the husband died. The husband had to put into writing what specifically the woman would own or it would