Gender Roles

I decided to do gender roles as my second blog post for One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest because it was a HUGE theme present in the book. Nurse Ratched as you all know by now was a very powerful women in the book, she was in control of basically all the men, she decided when they do things, how they do it, and if they didn’t behave she decided what punishment should be given. The men, all of them including RPM were powerless compared to her, they fell under her order weather they’d like to believe it or not it was true.

This is a very backwards gender role if you ask me; most the time when you think gender role, for western civilization at least you think of the male being the dominant one, however this was more back then around the time of this book, now females are too becoming successful and maintaining jobs that men have. So reading this book it was a shocker to see that this wasn’t the case. I decided to research the web to find out what gender roles were like in other places around the world!

Apparently in China the women have the higher say in what happens in the household, but tend to be less successful when it comes to careers. It also says that if a woman is successful she is looked at as powerful and unapproachable.

Apparently in India, once upon a time it was much like western civilizations views on gender roles. The male were the more dominant ones but now as we progress it says that the roles are becoming more equal, and both women and men are viewed equally capable over performing tasks.

Through much research I learned that a lot of places around the world are starting to adapt the idea that women should be treated as equals, the should be given the equal opportunity to shine in society. Personally its just a weird thing to see when the woman is the one fully in charge cause I’m so used to men being in that position, but I’m not saying that this is a bad thing!