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Separate Spheres Concerning Work Life and Family Life Comment by Alison Mc Letchie: These papers do not require a coversheet.

Name: JoeAnn Smith

Institutional Affiliation: Intro to Sociology

Separate Spheres Concerning Work Life and Family Life

The Industrial industrial revolution is a time reigning fromspans both the 18th to 19th centurycenturies. The era was marked with the major changes in the transportation industry, mining, manufacturing and agriculture. This was due to the profound impact of the early agriculture on the cultural and socioeconomic aspects concerning people’s lives. The result of the industrial revolution spread throughout North America, Europe and the entire world with time. This marks the major turning point in early life and history of man as the industrial revolution influenced almost all aspects of human life in the present civilization. There was a rapid population growth and improved standards of living due to the advancement of the industrial revolution (Triece, 2007). This paper is going to coverexamines all aspects of family life and work life as separate spheres and how they create both men and women experiences today. Comment by Alison Mc Letchie: What do you mean by this sentence? Comment by Alison Mc Letchie: Word choice. Comment by Alison Mc Letchie: Do you really think you can cover all? And is this sentence complete?

With the advancement of the ancient technology, family life shifted to women expectation while the men dominated the business life. This is highly evident as most of the duties at during the ancient time required lots of determination and work force. Most of the work was so tiresome for women due to their nature of being less masculine. In this regard, work life is a balance of concepts that usually entails good prioritizing with an individual’s lifestyle and work. These are the choices that individuals make in their lives concerning different roles and duties in the community. A dramatic change is evident in both the demographic profiles and labor markets. Most of The families have embarked on the dual earner kind of living from the traditional mode that views the male as the only breadwinner. Comment by Alison Mc Letchie: Proof your work! Comment by Alison Mc Letchie: Your sentences are opaque and confusing. What are you trying to say? You need to revise this paper.

Relevant to this, the current employers are demanding flexibility and productivity from all the employees due to the new changes in the working environment. The ancient traditional job for life is currently changing into new economic conditions. The works expectations and perspective towards jobs have also changed into a new form with different motives. Both men and women indulge in various employment opportunities regardless of their gender and religious affiliations. As such, the time balance enables many people to implement the idea equal time given to both family roles and work. This needs to work in accordance to attain a satisfaction balance in both roles involving the family and work. Before the revolution men role was to take care of the family as the head and to provide security to the general family. Women were responsible for their children needs and other domestic chores like preparing food for the whole family (Triece, 2007).

The ideology of different spheres dominated thought regarding gender roles from the late 18th century in the ancient history of America. Such ideas usually influence the entire gender role in almost the entire world. This influences some thinking towards proper gender roles today. Women sphere was the private in the conception of gender roles and spheres. Men dominated the public sphere in both the economic world and in politics. As the industrial revolution preceded the home life, become separate from the economic world. This was evident with the increasingly changes in cultural activities and public social. Most of the women valued the idea of public housekeeping, as it tends to widen their sphere. This spheres helped them in shaping and justifying of their reforms and public effort.

According to (Tronto) these spheres normally form both men and women experiences in different ways today. For example, men believe that they are empowered to take control of economic activities and politics while the women are limited to homestead chores. The notion also shapes people's motives in different ways, as men understand their culture subjects them to be the head of families and their wives to be always submissive to them (2013). This sphere creates a lot of emphasis on the solidarity of the family as it defines all the gender roles to all the family members. According to the spheres, a man’s duty was to support his wife and the rest if the family financially from the outside world earnings and the woman’s duty was mainly to create home and to be a wife and mother. From the woman’s virtues, the home turned into a refuge ground against darkness forces. The woman was responsible of turning the home into a place of moral purity, sobriety and embrace other Christian virtues (Tronto, 2013).

Therefore, the emergence of politics, religion and male public figures promoted the ideology of women as a civilizing force within the family home. For example, men took part in active war front in the Second World War while the women sustained them with their daily food supply and provision of medical care. Some women roles declined to the extent of acting as spies’ and providing the relevant information to the men in battle. In conclusion, the separate spheres mainly acted as a reminder to both genders concerning their duties and roles concerning the entire society expectations towards them (Tronto, 2013).

References

Triece, M. E. (2007). On the picket line: Strategies of working-class women during the depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Tronto, J. C. (2013). Caring democracy: Markets, equality, and justice. New York: New York University Press.