L'évolution du rôle de l'homme et de la femme dans la famille ( en anglais)

IDEA OF PROGRESS / FAMILY MATTERS

I/Past oppression

First, in 50’s there is not equality between women and men, “a family is a social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the mother with closet space and the children with outer space” is Evan Esar’s, an American humorist, definition of the word family. Indeed, the family’s structure was composed of parents and children. The couples married earlier and divorce didn’t exist. The women didn’t work and she making all over house work. As for the men, he has to work to bring money for his family.

II/Resistance and places charged with history

Therefore, the world and society has more evolved and today we can see that there are different types of families such as The Cosby Show. The Cosby Show is a series which deals with an African-American family where they live in Brooklyn, in New York in 90’s. Indeed, this is another family because they are more modern than the family in 50’s. In the first episode we can see a blend family. They were funny and free family.

III/Reconciliation and power-sharing

Nowadays, there are not families blended. There are interracial couples, single-parent family or even same-sex couples and parents, that are represented as “modern family”. These types of family are not the “ideal” or “perfect” family anymore as they use to be in the past 50 years.

IV/Today’s inequalities

But these new family relationships redefine family values and result on emotional instability, shifting gender roles, acceptance and tolerance.

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