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Women, Marriage, Motherhood

Women, Marriage, Motherhood. Women and Motherhood. Post WWII Women married younger than previous years. Domestic role for women emphasized. Average of 2 children in Europe Motherhood occupied less time Birth control usage increased. Women’s Rights. Women at Work

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Women, Marriage, Motherhood

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  1. Women, Marriage, Motherhood

  2. Women and Motherhood • Post WWII • Women married younger than previous years. • Domestic role for women emphasized. • Average of 2 children in Europe • Motherhood occupied less time • Birth control usage increased.

  3. Women’s Rights • Women at Work • Opportunities for women to earn income from home declined post WWII • Sharp increase in the number of married women working post WWII • This helps explain the rise of the women’s rights movement and the decline of the birth rate.

  4. Women’s Rights • Simone Beauvoir – The Second Sex (1949) • French existentialist • Argued that women are free but limited by society’s inflexibility and restraints • Women had to assert themselves to escape the role of the “other”. She inspired a generation of women to fight for equal rights.

  5. Women’s Rights • Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique (1963) • American • Influenced by Beauvoir, Friedan argued that middle class women were trapped by society. • Said the women had to conform to the idea that they must follow an infantile pattern of femininity compared to their husbands but must live for their husbands and children. • Founder of N.O.W.

  6. Women’s Rights • Goals • Workplace laws: • Forbid discrimination • Equal pay for equal work • Maternal leave • Affordable day care • Gender/Familylaws • Right to divorce • Abortion • Protection against rape and violence • Protection for single parents (often women)

  7. Women’s Rights • Feminism • Women played a role in the civil rights movement, environmental movement, gay rights movement, improving conditions for the impoverished • Feminists challenged what they considered to be a male-dominated culture that emphasized lady-like behavior • Critical of beauty pageants, male chauvinism, and even burned bras.

  8. Existentialism • Born in the 19th C • Influenced by the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and SorenKierkegaazrd. • Nietzsche questioned the emphasis on rational human development • Took root after WWII • Pessimistic and hopeless view • Humans are not in control of their own destiny. • Individual has to find meaning in life • Most existentialist were athiests • Jean Paul Sartre – French – Said that life has no meaning. We just exist. Strongly attracted to communism. Actions are choices independent of religion or ideology

  9. Christian Existentialists • Stressed human beings sinfulness and the need for faith and God’s forgiveness • Believed Christian faith could help in troubled times. • Soren Kierkegaard: Rediscovery of his 19th century works led to the rise of fundamental Christian beliefs.

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