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1990's Gender Equality

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Monday, February 17, 2014

Vol XCIII, No. 311

Work

Household

  • It is socially acceptable for both men and women to have work
  • Wage gap rapidly decreased
  • More women began to receive more degrees then men.
  • Women as executives, lawyers, doctors were accepted as the norm.
  • Most families had two wage-earners and juggled household and child care responsibilities equally between husband and wife.

Work

  • Men and Women both take care of the household
  • Men can be stay-at-home dads
  • Average time working on house work for women fell while it rose for men
  • Both parents could have a job without a problem
  • Work in the home was nearly equal
  • Amount of women aged 24-56 who worked grew to 75%
  • 50% of managerial positions were held by women
  • The women of the 1990’s were secure in their role as working women and professionals.
  • To work or to have a family was a big choices women wagered.
  • Equality in the work force

Within two years the males who once ruled the nation's commerce will account for only 53 percent of all workers. Women will constitute 47 percent of the work force.

Social

  • New views idolized women
  • People believed that if a man is allowed to do something a woman should be able to as well
  • Fastest jump towards gender equality in history
  • Ads used women to market towards both sexes
  • Women were allowed to think they were equal to men without being shunned
  • Women were empowered through the media
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