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Gender Issues
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- Did your ideas about what was and wasn't acceptable for men and women to do agree with society's ideas? How did you express your objections, if you had any?
- What were society's perceptions about the proper roles of women when you were growing up? Were women meant to stay at home and care for the family or could they have jobs? Were any jobs strictly for males?
- What were the acceptable roles for men? Were men supposed to be the heads of household? The breadwinners? The disciplinarians? What kinds of work were acceptable for men? Were any positions strictly for females?
- How did clothing styles reflect society's ideas about men and women? What were you expected to wear? Hats or gloves? Did you have to wear long sleeves all the time?
- Were there differences in the ways that boys and girls were raised? What were they expected to learn? How were they to act? Did you think that this was fair? Did you raise your children this way?
- Describe the social lives of men and women at the time. Could young women go out without an escort, smoke, or drink? What about young men? How did these rules affect you, if at all? Did you ever try to rebel against them? What happened?
- How did society's ideas change during the course of your lifetime? Did you fight for or against these ideas? What did you do? Take part in demonstrations or sign petitions?
- How did you feel about child care? Whom did you think should take care of the children? The mother, the father, or both? Did you think that this was something that the state should provide for if the parents needed to work?
- If the parents worked, how much time did you feel that mothers and fathers should have off when there were new children in the house? What type of pay should they receive during this time?
- As you matured, did you think that women had it much better than they did when you were growing up and starting a family? Why or why not? What about men? How had their lifestyles changed?
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