The Role of Women in Society

I think the times when the women stayed at home to look after the family were happier times in history, but with the occurrence of wars requiring the absence of men from the homes, women began to work outside in factories and the home life was sometimes not as secure as when the father was sharing the household.

Then, with the return of the men from the armed services, women, having achieved an element of independence, were unwilling to return to the role of housekeeper when they could work and pay someone else to do the work and still enjoy their independence. The men were changed from their former youthful optimism and discovered other cultures which they wanted to pursue and when women worked side by side with the men in the military, there was an equality of ability. Although unmatched in strength, the women sometimes surpassed the men in intellect, stamina, and moral strength becoming competitors in the fields formerly exclusive to men, such as in the fields of medicine and law enforcement.

So, now there are increasing numbers of women in the offices of government and business and it appears the more accomplished women become, the more some men yearn for "the good old days", when men were the heads of the household and women obeyed the wishes of their husband or the oldest male sibling. Women are now sometimes considered one of the "guys", and although this could be a flattering term, I think most women enjoy their place of looking toward men for strength, validation, and partners in a peaceful order of existence.