Sexism in Humanities

An unanswered problem buried deep in the hearts of most woman, a problem lay buried and unspoken for many years. Fulfillment as a woman had only one definition for American women after 1949; “the housewife/mother”. This same “fulfillment” was the greatest dissatisfaction and of course unfulfillment that woman suffered in the middle of the 20th century in the United States. A question of definition. Who they were and what their purpose in life was. Women all across America silently asked themselves, “Is this all?”
Experts coached woman on how to catch a man and keep him, how to breastfeed, how to control sibling rivalry and how to buy a dishwasher. Not how to have a career or higher education because that would be “unfeminine”. Older women were giving up their dreams, dreams that less than a century ago the now old-fashioned feminists fought for. Younger women weren’t even thinking about dreams. The thought of being the “ultimate” housewife and mothe...