Thursday 17 February 2011

Women at work

This image is a very stereotypical view of "women's work", the stereotypical work of women being doing the cooking, cleaning, washing, and just general housework that needs doing around the home. The image shows this view of women very well as it is a woman who is doing the work, and she is in a kitchen setting doing the ironing, possibly ironing a shirt for her husband. As for the caption "housework rules!" this could be a sign that this is how women thought they should be, at home cleaning and cooking, rather than going out and getting jobs, this was instead left to their husbands.






Whereas this image shows a woman at work in a busy office environment. She is on the phone with lots of paper work and folders around her. This working woman is very different from the working woman seen in the previous image, she is out of the house and is in a paid job, rather than at home working to clean up after the children and her husband. This office job is seen as stereotypical "men's work" and not many women used to work in this environment, however nowadays, it is a lot more common to see a woman in this kind of working environment.

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