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Gender Roles

Gender Roles

Prior to the twentieth century, men assigned and defined women’s roles. Although men determining women’s behavior affected all women, largely middle class women suffered. Men created somewhat of a prison that subjected and silenced women. Women were imprisoned in the home or private atmosphere, and treated as a servant tending to the needs of the family. An American woman is too often unfit for her duties as a woman, and is possibly of all civilized females the least qualified to undertake those heavier tasks which weigh so heavily on the nervous system of a man. She is not usually up to what nature asks from her as a wife and a mother. Women have difficulties...

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