Gender Roles In Today's Society

Going through the years, society's rules for men and women have drastically changed. Both men and women have standards and expectations towards life decisions that people might make judgments on. Now in this generation there is a constant battle between gender roles and how people perceive each gender when it comes to careers, house chores and education. In this era, both men and women are specified to a specific role based on their society and culture. Gender roles defined by culture means how a "male" or "female" are based on their interests, characteristics and attitudes. Gender roles have developed throughout the years. People are able to adjust to thoughts, attitudes and behaviors based on their culture. In today's society, gender does
Throughout the poem the author wants us to realize the pain and sacrifice of a male persona of what they struggled through on the battlefield, while his wife was at home completing the household chores. Imagery is developed in line 21, 23 "...he liked a blood-smear down his leg/ It was after football, when he'd drunk a peg"(21,23)
Showing how a football player was physically fit and "liked a blood smear". Comparing the characteristics of the 1917 to the 2016 generation, the gender roles have drastically changed due to the equality and culture of people. Gender roles in the 21st century, have evolved in respecting civil rights of male and females. In the past years during the 1700s women were treated like servants to their household. In the poem "To the Ladies" by Mary, Lady Chudleigh the first line of the poem immediately describes the theme of the poem "Wife and servant are the same"(1).
The theme is explained through a metaphor comparing the "wife" to a "slave". Once they say the word "obey" which is repeated twice throughout the poem emphasizing the
"Then but to look, laugh, or speak/...contract break,"(11,12)
Chudleigh pursues the wife or "servant" as breaking the contract if she does any of those things according to the husband. The submissive obeys the husband to which she, "Like mutes, she signs alone must make/and never any freedom take/But still governed by a nod/And fear her husband as a god,"(13-16) the "nod" in line 15 brings the value of a wife lower to the servant back in 1703 when the poem was written. Finally the servant steps up in her defense, "Then, shun, oh! shun that wretched state/And all the fawning flatterers hate/Value yourselves, and men despise/You must be proud, if you'll be wise" (21-24) persuading women they should "shun" the marriage stage and value themselves. For every man will "despise" if women "value" themselves. The lines 21-24 are an example of a rhyme scheme, "...state/...hate/...despise/...wise"(21-24). rhyming "state" and "hate", as well as "despise" and "wise". In the society of today, humanity is perceived as all one. A male role is no more powerful than a female role, everyone is treated equally no matter what