Women's Ideal Role in Society

To offer an additional perspective of how there is still much room for improvement I would argue that women are still taking on an overwhelming amount in and outside of the household, despite being equally as involved in the workforce as men. Although much of the household labour has been outsourced to housekeepers and eating outside of the home, a lot of the burden of ensuring these errands are completed is placed upon the women and expected to be fulfilled and managed by her. They are taking on roles within all aspects of their lives, with caring for children, husbands and potentially elderly parents, maintaining household cleanliness and chores and attending work in order to provide towards the income. I would argue that although there has been more equality between the genders, women are taking on even more so than they previously did in times when women were expected only to be the homemaker. Therefore this problem with no name seems to only have been furthered within the advancing society.

I agree with Sarah's point that there is still room for improvement because there are still some big disparities between men and women but I think we should also acknowledge all the changes that have happened since the 1950s, Europe comes to mind more than any other continent to me due to the fact that there are more women there actually pursuing professional careers unlike any other continents. Also I think the world really should take a look at the Scandinavian countries where the family tasks are not only very equally shared within a relationship, but the governments are actually advertising and setting measures in vigour (in Sweden, dads have a parental leave of 90 days) so the men are as active and involved in the family as the women are. Now even though changes have been made it is still very obvious that in most part of the world the balance of tasks between men and women is not there yet and thus we have to continue with the changes slowly implemented within the society since the mid 1900s.