Community Cohesion - a really quick summary

Changing Gender Roles

Women....

• less traditional jobs for women (e.g women can be doctors/engineers/lawyers)
• world Wars
• women are allowed to vote
• 1970's equal pay act
• women in the army

Men...

• less traditional roles (e.g stay at home dads)
• men are willing to cook, clean, hairdress,teach
• men in the arts
• men as nurses

How and why

• Voting - change in law (Suffragetes)
• Job choice - effect of wars
• Women are better educated - contraception and equal rights legislation
• Men in childcare - change in attitudes

Still some inequalities

• nurses still seen as feminine
• men still earn 17% more than women
• women and jobs (career breaks)
• girls achieving high grades in exams

Women in Religion

For

• "God created male and female in his own image"
• Jesus appeared to women first after resurrection
• Women leaders in the early church (frescos in Rome)
• "There is neither gentile nor Jew..."

Against

• Jesus…