A Contrasting Comparison of Women at Home and in the Work Field

The advanced(a) day fair sexhood has perform much than just a counterpart in a male dominated workplace. She has become the epitome of a successful person. The modern day c beer woman often wears 2 hats or more. Her personality has become more conciliatory as the needs in her life have grown more complex and measure consuming.Yes, a woman today is more than just a woman is. She is now a daughter, wife, breed, fri shutdown, economist, and anything and foreverything else that she has to be in between. Seeing a modern day wife and have makes me wonder what it was like for the children and preserves of yesteryears. Before the agitated life of today, when most families are forced to outlast on 2 incomes from the husband and wife, a woman larnmed to lead a stress free life.Her only worry then was how to cook the chicken defrosting on the kitchen counter. When exactly did this change happen? How has it affected the way a family functions these days? Believe it or non, at th at place was actually a time in history when wo custody stayed at topographic point and took care of the family. This was all ahead ground War 2 changed the landscape of the workplace as the people of then new it to be.Before the war broke out in 1948, women were content to stay at home. Wives took care of the household while the men worked and provided the finances needed to sustain his family. Women were content to stay home and take care of the children.The children were happy because they came home from school or play time and had somebody at home with a glass of inclination quenching lemonade for them or freshly baked cookies for a snack. The women were more corroboratory of their brood.As a mother, the women made trustworthy that the children were well taken care of, more secure in the thought that their mother loved them because they could see her and feel it more and often. A mothers role then is just as important as a mothers role now. Mothers then were not as stress ed out as they are today. Yes, women then were withal tired and stressed out.They were very busy and already had 24 hour work days. They were happier though. This is because they dealt with only hotshot situation at a time and the routine did not vary that often so that dealings with any problems posed before them seemed so trivial and common sensical.Then unexpectedly, the United States got involved in World War 2 on June 6, 1944. This is the date that changed the family and working mans landscape forever. Women were at this time already soft entering various workplaces.The war accelerated their entry even more. As most men shipped rack up to fight the war, women were left at home and were forced into the unexpected situation of having to be both mother and father, care giver and provider for their brood. Women began working where men used to work as a hand over of support for the soldiers overseas who were giving their lives in order to make sure that the families of the wor ld would continue to live free from tyranny.This was the start of the subtle changes in the family dynamics into what we now know it to be. Slowly, the mother and wife figure, the woman kids could always trust and gurgle to, their mom, the woman who made sure that a hot meal waited for her husband when he got home tired from work started to disappear from the world.After the war, women chose to continue down the new path that had heart-to-heart up for them. Women felt that it gave them adjoin footing with men and working gave them a new sense of fulfillment that they used to augment what was now to them a boring life of a housewife.This social movement continued to develop until women finally became the dual careered women of today. She is both a mother and an employee. A wife and an executive, you name it, she can do it. Women of the 21st century have seemingly perfected the art of multitasking.All of this progress in the womans empowerment movement came at a high cost to the ir families though. As women discovered that they are more than just sensibly faces who could do other things aside from care for the men and the family, the very foundation that had the woman as its supportive backbone suffered a huge blow. The families of today have become very vulnerable to disintegration.Now, because both parents are already working due to the high cost of living, nobody is around to supervise the upbringing of the children anymore. Latchkey kids are now the norm and the lack of parental supervision have allowed kids the freedom to experiment with crime and drugs.Divorce has become more common these days. As the husband and wife lose time for their family, lose the time to talk to each other and find out how they are faring in their lives as individuals, a couple and parents, the end up following the misguided belief that more money means a stronger family. Money does not make for a happy family.Togetherness and understanding does. This is what the families of yesteryears had that we no longer have today.These days, a woman, as a mother and wife does want to give her family their due respect, love and understanding. But she is just so fire out from work all the time that she unintentionally vents on her family by taking what little time she can offer to them in terms of quality time away from them.This usually happens because the woman already loses her sense of self worth and who she really is. Once again, this is something that did not exist for women before 1942.The war did not affect just the psyche of men In fact, the effects of that war have reached farther than ever thought possible. It took away the innocence of women and replaced it with females who have a need to constantly prove that they can equal the man in any field or work place.I guess it will take more time before the women can complete their evolution into the perfect being. In my mind, this is the woman who can be career driven in the work place, but still be the carin g housewife and mother who existed back in the years before World War 2.Works CitedCristina Giampolis Homepage. History 175 Project. November 25, 2006.