How far has women's equality progressed since the 1800's?
Woman progressed since they are more likely to share their duties with their husband and children. They do not sew close that much since they could buy it from the clothing store. Since woman if they get divorced can still have a job as long as they went to school and graduated and can go to the store and buy food, and things they would need in their home to survive. Woman these days could divorce if they had a bad husband and could find another one if they choose to. Woman helped just like back then with gardening and farming, but farming is not that big anymore to families.
Woman in the 1800's had to learn how to live on their own either cook, sew, make things out of wood that a man usually would have to do if they were in a relationship. Daughters would be taught native skills from their mothers, and European customs from their fathers. They also had to learn how to read and write in Christian values.
Woman that were not married had to rely on relatives for support and a place to live. Woman could not divorce the wives so they had to pick a good partner or they would live a horrible life. Woman also helped with farming and gardening if they had free time. Woman usually got married and if their husband came to their country to marry them he would take the woman back ot the place where he lives.
“Imported wives, fancy themselves such great ladies that there is no possibility of pleasing them” and they affect “a supercilious air of superiority over the native wives and daughters of gentlemen in the country" "With her dual heritage, the mixed-blood woman possessed the ideal qualifications for a fur trader's wife: acclimatized to life in the west and familiar with Indian ways, she could also make a successful adoption to white culture"
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ReplyDelete1800s, women were expected to cook and sew according to the primary source. Today, that expectation still exists but it is not an accepted fact like it was in the 1800s.
In the pioneer areas, women's main role was to marry for economic ties. Today, that's no longer the expectation as women work for themselves and it is becoming more of a norm that women aren't married.