What are the roles of  American women today?
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The roles of American women today are whatever they want.
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In context to American and a few various cultures, society doesn't honor older women and/or value children.  It seems only as long as you have some sort of societal value such as beauty and sex appeal, you are desired or appreciated.  But once that goes or it has not appeared(children) women tend to live more on the periphery and are not appreciated much at all.  Whereas men are valued by what they do, what they contribute to the world/commerce and how they come off in the world/workplace and they are not judged as much by their outer appearance as women are.  \nWomen don't tend to, despite the women's movement, get recognition by the greater whole of society by what they do in terms of work and contribution as much as they are valued by how sexy or beautiful they are and women in their late teens and early twenties seem to have it all.  Tight bodies, no wrinkles, less worries and cares than older women and their whole life ahead of them.  It's an ideal but not always realistic fantasy for women to want to be young again, and it just sets us up for being miserable in the age we're at.  \n\nSome societies such as traditional indigenous(native American) and some African cultures have historically valued women so much that they are often part of the decision making process that involves and affects the whole tribe.  For instance, when the early American settlers were helping create democracy they modeled it based on the Iroquois confederacy tribes of 6 nations and how they worked together, forming consensus's rather than dictatorships or hierarchies.  But they left out one major aspect out of it, women helped make the major decisions!  At the top of the tier in terms of power, women elders made the big decisions and it worked(because things were balanced and respect was given to all, they had earned it).  But this was not incorporated into early American Democracy and for that...it showed and continues to show.  Women didn't get the vote until 1939!! Suffragettes!  Women's rights..etc..And so on...\n\nPlus a lot of women nowadays feel the pressure of so much media blitzkriegs and the onslaught of messages that tell us that we are not good enough unless we are tight-skinned, thin but yet sporty, sexy and available and so much more.  So there is a lot of pressure nowadays to be young and virile, more than for a long time in terms of media. \n\nHope this is enough.
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Women have been put in a place where we are expected to be pure and totally giving of ourselves. It is set up in things like the virgin mother.\nIt is a way to keep women down and control them, something men seem driven to do.\nThe expectations for woman are always higher, even now we are expected to have a beautiful germ free home, be wonderful mothers who prepare healthy meals and do art projects with our kids and hold down a great job. Woman discuss trying to have it all, while men do whatever the hell they want, because it was set up for them like that a long time ago. Even their mothers make it worse by doing everything for them and treating their daughters tougher.\n\nLook at how many people HATE Hillary Clinton just because she said she does not bake. \n\nWe woman perpetuate the problem, and when we stop being our own worst enemies we shall overcome.
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Women are allowed to play a greater role in the U.S. military and other public sectors.  Homosexuals are now recognized as people who should have the right to live how they want (now, if only politics would catch up).  Black people are gaining economic power.  At least, a small part of American population is starting to recognize that people in third world countries are just as much people as the citizens of America are.
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a woman is the token of respect,\nshe not to be paid \nshe should be like a mother.\nexpect for some expection, she should be treated equally
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The role of the wise and loving mother\n   ... and therefore protector (of children)\nThe role of the perfect object of a man's desire\nThe role of a temptation to men
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Ever heard "Ready or not, here I come."? Every American woman should vote for a woman and so challenge America to be ready, because she is here! Some men presidents have been so bad, no woman can be worse.
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believe that we have degraded since the 50"s and early 60"s. think that is the last time America stood together on life issues. there was not family fall out like now. think people tried to do what was right even when it was hard. man tried to provide and make households survive while woman were trying to be thee best to be a mother not 100 different things and then a mother. (no way intended as a slam meaning trying to be a worker teacher home maker taxi driver sister daughter wife then mother is very hard. and not far back in the 50S most woman stayed at home and had the ability to be th mother they dreamed of. ) we treated our kids different as the future not as a necessity or interruption.
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The US used prictures of women working on things like iron, chefs, nurses and such to try to get women to help out. Im not so sure about the Soviet Union though. Ask me about propaganda about the Cold WAr... i know more about that.
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THE TRADITIONAL WOMAN TAKES CARE OF HOME AND CHILDREN AND IS VERY HAPPY WITH THAT...THE MODERN WOMAN WANTS TO PROVE HER INTELLIGENCE AT WORK OR BUSINESS AND IS NOT COMFORTABLE SITTING AT HOME.SHE MAY GO TO GYM,HAVE TELECONFERENCES,ATTEND MEETINGS AND HEAD A BUSINESS...
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Men were always taught to be the protectors of women. So to protect them they have to work.  With NOW maybe that will change.
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women are earning more money now and gaining more power.
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Women are smarter\nMan are stronger
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I'm not sure what you mean by development. You didn't say in what field. If you mean women's emancipation from the home to the work force, there are a lot of things to be considered. Women are now attending colleges and universities in ever increasing numbers. They have invaded every profession with great success, from sports to medicine to archeology and engineering. In the field of politics women are beginning to have a voice to be reckoned with, as they always did, only they are no longer standing behind a man, but rather leading the way. I could go on and on here but without a peg to hang my hat on, so to speak, I'll stop right here. Hope this helps you in some way.
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Women...cuz we're built better.
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Welcome the the world of women
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The answer from a citizen of the world would be "my country does" and it would be coming from a hypocrite since no country gives the proper respect and value women deserve.  Women are the heart of the family and community etc, etc, but let's be frank, even in this great country of the US of A,  women are so far away from getting the same respect and value men get. Let us consider these simple facts:  Politics: any women president/vicepresident in the 230 years of America's 'fair' and 'equal' system?.... Of the 100 senators, how many women? (14, in case you wonder, that's not good enough!)  Jobs: who gets better salaries doing the same thing?  Socially: who is expected to do more and get little or no credit?  (it's obvious, women do at home, they always do more, sadly they  get less)... \n\nI am a citizen of Mexico and I can say that in none of our Latin American countries men give women their proper place in society. Women are natural leaders, yet we fail to provide them the resources and opportunities.  Octavio Paz, a Nobel Laureate, once said, in Mexico a woman "is an image of both fecundity and death. In almost every culture the goddesses of creation are also goddesses of destruction. Woman is a living symbol of the strangeness of the universe and its radical heterogeneity. As such, does she bide life within herself, or death? What does she think? Or does she think? Does she truly have feelings? Is she the same as we are?" and, ( apologize for writing this in Spanish)" "La mujer es una fiera domestica, lujuriosa y pecadora de nacimiento, a quien hay que someter con el palo y conducir con el freno de la religion"  Basically he said that women are domesticated beasts who are full of lust and sinners since birth and religion should help us control them..."  Strong, isn't it?  \n Yes, I must say it, religion is a tool that helps keep women in a place much more inferior than men... This is not a domestic nor personal issue but a worldwide one.  The time is now to continue making changes at every level to finally admit women into the world.