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This 4 page paper illustrates why women are still not the major breadwinners in the family or in the economy. Specific media, literature, entertainment examples are given which reinforce the idea that women's roles are dictated. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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remains a fact that women in the United States do not command the top salaries, nor do they hold an equal number of high profile or high level positions in
business, politics, or the private sector. Considering that the latest census lists that there are currently more females than males in America, it seems evident that there is a societal
norm which relegates women to the role of saving money, instead of earning/making it. To what does the American female owe this culturally enforced phenomenon?
After enduring for many decades, Louisa May Alcotts work, Little Women, still continues to offer insight into this societal phenomenon of female oppression, and has made itself a shining commentary
about women and money on the silver screen. A slice of life, Little Women begins unassumingly with the gathering of the March sisters to worry over the financial straits that
they find themselves in. These overt feminist themes are exampled in Little Women as Alcott tackles the patriarchal society that limited womens opportunities to be creative. She methodically outlines how
men, the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. The Midwifes Tale, a screen adaptation
of the novel, traces the life and times of a midwife during the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Through her diary entries one can see how women were charged
with the keeping of the household and that its financial failure was squarely on the backs and reputations of the women. What one immediately sees is that this is very
unfair. The women were not allowed to work outside of the home, with the exception of a few professions, midwifery being one of them. Still, the success of the household
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