Gender Roles and Factors Causing Change



Gender Roles and Factors Causing Change

Your Task:

1. Throughout the course of time, gender roles have changed. Complete the following chart, using your textbook as your source for information to identify factors causing change.

2. Write brief point form notes on each of the following topics:

a. hunter-gathers

b. agricultural families

c. pre-industrial families

d. urban industrial families

e. the contemporary Canadian family

A) Hunter-Gatherers

Tasks of men and women were shared, although their roles were different.

|Men |Women |Children |

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Factors Causing Changes:

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B) Agricultural Families

Women became the chattels, or property, of their husband and had few rights.

|Men |Women |Children |

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Factors Causing Changes:

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C) Pre-Industrial Canadian Society

Sharing of roles in the family

|Men |Women |Children |

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Factors Causing Changes:

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D) Urban Industrial Families

Men became dominant in public life; women became their husbands property

|Men |Women |Children |

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Factors Causing Changes:

- _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

- _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

- _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

E) Contemporary Canadian Family

Increased status of women

|Men |Women |Children |

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Factors Causing Changes:

- _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

- _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

- _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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