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• Role of women and men throughout history

  • 15th century
  • 16th century
  • 17th century
  • 18th century
  • 19th century
  • 20th century
  • 21st century
• Women in 15th century


  • Received same education as men
  • Learned to read and study literature
  • Classified as most intelligent
  • Could speak Spanish and French
  • Knew painting, music and dance
• Men in 15th century

  • Learned more about public relations to govern
  • Belonged to the public sphere
  • Women engaged in household common
• Women in 16th century

  • Believed to be inferior to men
  • Should be a good daughter
  • Taught to manage a home, embroider, sew, make remedies, prepare food, duties to future husband
  • Education seen as a waste of time, privilege for high-born ladies
• Men in 16th century


  • Had to support the family
  • Worked as farmer, artisan
  • High social class men aimed to keep inheritance and lineage
• Women in 17th century

  • Low social class took care of sons and educated them
  • Some took vow for chastity and obedience to the convent
• Men in 17th century

  • Low social class engaged in agriculture, livestock, fishing, crafts
  • Regardless of status, ruled over wife and family
  • High society aimed to have child to prolong lineage and heritage
• Women in 18th century


  • Absolute submission to man
  • Predestined to marriage
  • Stay at home, care for children
  • Preserve modesty and virginity
  • Declared inferior, subjected to manly exploited protection
• Men in 18th century


  • Wearing over and everything surrounds him
  • Women under strict orders
• Women in 19th century


  • Not developed as human beings
  • Followed example of honesty, integrity, respect for men and society
• Men in 19th century


  • Adjusted to profound innovations of industrialization, kept up with modern times
• Women in 20th century

  • Low social class used food collected for cooking and home/child care
  • Creole women did not participate in domestic life, only worried about dress
• Men in 20th century


  • Less responsible as provider, less likely to assume traditional women's roles
• Women in 21st century


  • Paid for their jobs
  • As wife, caring and attentive to partner
  • Usual role is to care for children
  • Ultimately responsible in the house
  • Society requires women to be well-groomed
• Men in 21st century

  • Capable of financially providing for family
  • Engaged in parenting and household roles
• Roles of women during war

  • Cooking and laundry as camp followers
  • Sewing bandages, making medical equipment
  • Working in munitions factories
  • Nursing
  • Replacing drafted men in jobs like farming and factories
  • Handling important clerical roles in military
  • Fighting in anti-aircraft units
  • Serving as combat pilots
• Despite facing significant cultural and social barriers, many women have made remarkable contributions to their countries in times of conflict
• After 1945


  New combat roles for women were highly controversial due to differences in physical capabilities and gender identity issues