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Essay : Women Empowerment In 21St Century - Desklib

   

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Running head: THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN OVER THE CENTURIESTHE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN OVER THE CENTURIESName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

1THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN OVER THE CENTURIESWomen occupy a very important place in our society and in the world. All over theworld, at some timeline, women have been subjected to discriminations, torture and agony.At present, the concept of the equality of women is increasingly being promulgated bycountries all over the world. In the most remarkable sense, women have been achievinghigher education, gaining social importance and occupying pivotal positions at workplace.Indeed, women are on the path to touch the pinnacle (Whyte 2015). However, there has beena vast distinction between the timeline of the different centuries in terms of womenempowerment. This essay outlines the fact to portray the evolvement of the concepts ofwomen in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, keeping in consideration of the facts described inthe three literary pieces- The Wife’s Victory by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth,Marriage by Elizabeth Freeman and Midwife Martha Ballard’s Diary.A good section of engaging documentation can be derived from the study of the twopieces of literature- The Wife’s Victory and Midwife regarding the 19th century. This centurywas popularly known as the Victorian Age due to the influence of the glorious rule of QueenVictoria. Women were particularly segregated to men in the spheres of personal life, sociallife and professional life. They were expected to conduct themselves as pure, docile andcompliant to their fathers, then to their husbands and when ultimately they grew old, to theirsons (Vicinus 2013). The scope of employment for women in that century was non-existent.The distressed section of the society frequently earned their livelihood as house cleaners,house servants, governesses and sex workers ("Southworth's The Wife's Victory", 2017).While the refined section of the society were wedded into the noble and aristocratic familyand were confined into the four corners of their abode in the role of a dutiful wife andsubsequently as a mother. Apparently, the essence of marriage was paramount (Vicinus,2013). Overall, it can be said that in the 19th century, women were kept at large and did nothave much of a role to perform in the society.

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