Gender roles
Thesis: Even though the responsibilities of a female in the family have sufficiently increased over the years, women are still looked down upon in the eyes of men.
Intro: women are expected to be the stay at home moms.
- Society’s social norm
- Even though women fought hard for their rights, still not taken seriously
- An issue seen on a daily business
- Real life as well as media and television
o I love lucy and house husbands
• Similar relations between the 2
- Men assume women have it easy
o Don’t fully understand how hardworking women are
Paragraph 1: discuss I love lucy
- Women were portrayed as the stay at home wives
o Takes care of the house chores and cooking
- The men patronized the women about their lives being easy
- Decided to switch roles
- Learned that their lives were a lot harder than they assumed.
Paragraph 2: discuss house husbands trailer
- The men started out being working guys
- Their lives became stressful and difficult
o Figured being stay at home dads were easy
- “the new black”
o Joking about how simple life would be if roles were switched
Paragraph 3: relating with I love lucy through house husbands trailer
- The 2 male leads in I love lucy stated that “anybody can cook and clean”
- “discover the freedom, the fun, the fashion, of being a stay at home husband”
- Both exposes the idea that female roles are less complicated compared to the male roles
o Stay at home, cook, clean, take care of the kids, do nothing.
Paragraph 4: history’s view on women
- Worthless/ property
- Household chores
- Bearing children
Paragraph 5: today’s view on women
- Still expected to cook and clean
o Even after a long days of work
- More responsibilities
o Yet still little respect
Paragraph 6: how have the views (not) changed
- men have always looked down upon women
- Both clips showed the mentality of the men
o Female roles are easier than male roles
o It’s a lot less difficult to be a woman
- Thoughts and beliefs are still similar
Conclusion: unequal gender roles
- Women have more responsibilities than men
o Even with work, are still expected to cook, clean, and take care of the kids.
- Women get treated differently.
- Men should realize that it’s tough to be a woman.
o I love lucy- “We don’t know how you girls feel about it, but we’d like to forget the whole thing. We’re lousy housewives.”
o House husbands trailer- Just a trailer, but throughout the season, the men run into some tough situations
• Realized that it’s harder than it seems
- These clips effectively portray the misleading male’s perspective on women.
o Men who assume that female roles are far more less complicated should watch these clips
