women were supposed to influence their husbands and raise patriotic children
Their parents chose for them.
Stay at home and work in the household, bear and raise children, supervise slaves, and occasionally get out to attend women's religious festivals.
During the 1930s in America, women were treated as if they were valueless. Women were nothing in the eyes of men, and there was no equality between men and women. Women were second-class citizens. They were expected to stay home and raise their children and nothing more.
Women were expected to take care of the household in the early nineteenth century. However, for families that needed a second income, teaching and nursing were two professionals that women could choose to go into.
In sharecropping agreements, women were often expected to contribute to the labor on the farm alongside men. They were responsible for tasks such as planting, weeding, and harvesting crops, as well as domestic duties in the household. Additionally, women typically had little control over the crops they grew or the profits generated from their labor.
The role of the women involved them cooking, cleaning, tending their gardens and even working the fields with the men when need be.
Women were expected to keep the homefront running.
- Women are expected to get married - Women are expected to have children especially boys to be an army - Women are expected to keep quiet when men are around and they are not allowed to interrupt them when men are having a conversation
Women were expected to obey all their male family members.
They were expected to take over men's jobs.
Between 16 and 20 it was expected for young colonial men and women to marry.
They were expected to work in factory jobs.
Men !
Women were expected to influence their husbands and children to be good americans.
Margaret Jarman Hagoood has written: 'Mothers of the South' -- subject(s): Rural conditions, Sharecropping, Women
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