The Role of Women in Today's Society

The role of Women in Today's society

Women in today's society have certainly gained influence when we compare them to the females of yesterday; yet there is still far to go until a complete balance between the genders is achieved. Although it is fair to say that women, in the broadest sense have more freedom, this is not true in all cases because prejudice still remains.

I have researched some sources which give an idea of how women are viewed in the present day. Using the pages of two magazines featuring women, however with varying thoughts I have put together a few examples of what the woman is today.

Women have always been treated as the inferior sex, and perhaps this is because this is the way it has been since the beginning of time. When the first human, Adam was a man. Eve was created as a companion for Adam, supposedly from one of his ribs. Some women takeup the traditional female role of being a housewife and being general helpers to their husbands. It used to be usual practise for a woman to be unemployed and in the early 1900s women who tried to get a job or join the suffragette movement were less respected. Despite women having jobs nowadays there are still professions that many think upon as feminine roles; for example secretaries, and nurses. People are growing out of these beliefs as gradually over the last century women have gained more rights. In 1921 when women were awarded the suffrage they were also given a foothold into what was called by an anti-suffragette male "The grubby world of politics only suitable for men" Women are involved in the government but only one woman became PM in 1970, and slowly Margaret Thatcher's cabinet turned against her.

Just because the majority of top jobs are reserved for men it does not mean women cannot have careers. The traditional jobs such as midwifery or nursing, which were once dominated by females