Expectations of Women

How have expectations of women have changed ?

Expectations of women are pretty much the same as they have always been. It really depends on who you are asking. Men tend to think that women are still the cook-clean housewife stereotype but some men like the fact that women work for themselves and make their own money. Not only men think this but women do also. Depending on how you were brought up , you have different opinions on certain expectations. Now women have more rights and more oppurtunities to get jobs. Skeeter gave us an insight on how men were payed more than women but now women can make just as much as men. The rights for women are more equal to men than they every were before.

The time period of the book also brings another category to this answer. Whether the woman is white or black effects what are expected of them. White women just managed the house and socialized whereas the black women were the ones who cleaned, cooked and took care of the kids. The white woman just had to make sure that she looked good and her family and home were percieved as elegant.