Gender Stereotypes In The 1920's

During the 1930’s there was an overwhelming sense of preconceived ideas of gender roles and what place they maintained in society, men were expected to work in order to earn a living and provide for their families, while women were more likely to stay at home to look after the children and cook and clean until the man returns from work. For working class Americans and the poor, the situation was during the Great Depression and many people were out of work and had to resort to desperate measures in order to provide for their families. Contrast to the upper class of the time who went by greatly untouched by economic downfall and thus become increasingly more obliged to seek a wife in order to have a family and live what seemed to be the idea of a middle-class woman’s American dream to marry a wealthy man.

Sexism is the prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex (Dictionary.com). Examples of this would be the pay gap between women and men, and how men get paid more for doing the same jobs as women. Some say that sexism in our country is not relevant any more, but that is not the case. Today, sexism still affects how various peopletreat each other, and how children are educated and raised. Within modern America, children are consistently put into roles and expected to stay within them; instances of this often happen within preschools, elementary schools, and even within the home. Sexism in America affects how children and young adults act within our society.

Women in the 1930’s had much different lives and expectations than today. Due to the depression many people had to change their lives to support their families and that includes women. After the feminist movement of the 1920s, due to the depression, women were forced to return to their previous lives as submissive housewives although many were required to earn an income by getting a job.

This author uses essays from the book Exotic No More: Anthroplogy on Front Lines to support her research about the various roles of gender in societies. Her main focus, and example was showcasing the Western society and how they classified gender. In the past, gender roles were mostly composed up of the same gender. For example, domestic duties were for women, not men. However, the Western society allowed gender roles that were made up of both male and female.

Robb brings up how toys have not always had gender specific marketing but the market back tracked between the 1970s and the 1990s and have continued since then. Robb then mentions many stores recent actions to tone down and remove gender-specific marketing from their stores. This includes Target’s removable of gender labels from their bedding and toy aisles. Robb than begins to include the idea of more qualified people than her. She includes author Jo Paoletti’s idea that girls don’t actually prefer pink but that they are taught to. She backs this up with a study by Vanessa Lobue and Judy DeLoache in which children age seven months to five years were asked to choose between a pink or blue object and it wasn’t until around two and a half that girls preference for pink became obvious. Robb then includes many quotes from Megan Fulcher, associate professor of psychology at Washington and Lee University. She uses Fulcher’s idea that gender-specific toys marketing leads to hindered learn, such as in motor skills. This article fits into my research paper because it shows that stores should rid of gender-specific marketing because it harms children and it shows that business were able to do it in the

Stereotype: A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Stereotypes have been around forever. Whether it be the strong, muscular, handsome, men in the 1800’s. Or the popular, pretty, girls you see in school hallways today.They are all stereotypes.

The 1920s was filled with a lot of progression among society. This progression did not leave the women of the 1920s out. Women became more sexually liberated, more women began to work, and women were also given the right to vote. The 1920s are one of the most stereotyped decades in America. Not only were the 1920s stereotyped as a whole, but women we hugely stereotyped. Many men only wanted the women in their lives to be hostage to the home, be the perfect house wife and birth children. The Feminist movement among this time was greater than it had been before. Women had worked hard to be able to evolve in a time where man, especially the white man, was superior to everyone else.

Do you really know what went down in the 1930s? There was a lot of behind the scene events going on in the 1930s, that not everyone really paid attention to. Some people may have just wanted to not be apart of these events or some people may have not even known about it. The life of the 1930s included many occasions where there were females treated unfairly because of gender stereotypes, there has also been an occasion where a bunch of female swimmers came together and fought for longer swimming hours for their pool time, and there was also a massive shooting at the University of Washington state targeting only the women.

Reading 1 of The Lenses of Gender by Sandra Lipsitz Bem focused primarily on how society has viewed men and women through looking at the history of religion, theories, philosophies, and law. Bem uses her research to teach readers of the main differences that have historically set men and women apart from one another in the areas of male superiority, biological differences between the male and female bodies, and the roles that the sexes have maintained in cultures. What I found most significant was the general belief throughout all areas of historical research that Bem presented, that men are the “standard” for humans, and women’s ability to be pregnant and have children is extra, or “other” than the standard. Not only did the mentioned cultures

In the 1950’s the decade had provided the popular belief of “Leave it to Beaver” image of the era. That could be described as the peaceful, prosperous, and smooth sailing of the stereotypical characteristic of all people living in this time period. But, as stereotypes may be looked upon as facts, this was not the case at all. Though, the 1950’s may seem like a peaceful era, it was much more complex than that, the 1950s did not always match up with this popular image.

As mothers to-be across Western nations pop balloons, bite into cupcakes, or release confetti cannons, excitement colored with blue or pink fills the air. Although a gender reveal party seems exciting, harmless in nature, many aspects of the blue versus pink, sports versus makeup, guns versus glitter schemes play into stereotypes. What will the parents do when their precious, dainty daughter later decides she wants to play football? How will they react if she comes out to them as transgender? Depicting gender as a strict binary with set characteristics harms the children and adolescents who must grow up within it and alienates those who identify outside of it.

Gender stereotypes are beliefs about the entire gender based on certain characteristics. These stereotypes are generalized beliefs on masculinity and femininity. Overall these stereotypes may not always be true. Men and women may both have many characteristics that fall under the gender stereotype but this is not always the case.

Unlike ‘sex’, which typically refers to the biological and physiological differences, gender is a sociological concept that describes the social and cultural constructions that is associated with one’s sex (Giddens & Sutton, 2013, p. 623-667). The constructed (or invented) characteristics that defines gender is an ongoing process that varies between societies and culture and it can change over time. For example, features that are overly masculine in one culture can be seen as feminine in another; however, the relation between the two should not be seen as static. Gender socialization is thought to be a major explanation for gender differences, where children adhere to traditional gender roles from different agencies of socialization. Gender

Looking back at different centuries it can be seen that gender stereotypes have been increasing and spreading rapidly around the world in different cultures; our society has allowed gender stereotypes to control many aspects of human activity.

This article, “Gender Development Research in Sex Roles: Historical Trends and Future Directions” was written in a 2011 on NCBI, which points towards how the gender roles are different and how the society views them. This text includes the study of gender development, sex roles and trends over the past 35 years. Today gender roles, especially in the United States, are different from what they were in the past. But there are still many differences in roles of sex in many places around the world where women are considered less than men. They are not allowed to go out without a man going along. They are not allowed to continue their education because many still feel that women are meant to do the housework and take care of their children while