Typical gender roles from the 1920's up until the 1950-1960's were fairly simple. Men were the bread-winners of the household, they went out and worked for the income for the family whereas women would stay at home, care for the children and do the cooking, cleaning and other "womanly" household chores as well as pleasing and catering to their husbands needs. They, as well as children, were expected to be seen and not heard.

Gender roles are passed on through generations. From the age of three, children are able to start becoming aware of the differences between girls and boys based on the actions of the parents and the nature of their environment. They begin to learn what is expected and appropriate of their gender in their society.

The behavior is reinforced when the parents praise or reward their children for their actions. They can also be punished and challenged to change, if it's considered inappropriate. Eg. Girls are praised when they cook/clean as it will be seen as expected of them in the future. Boys if they cry will be told not to as its not a familiar trait that is reinforced in their gender.

In the 1920's women could rarely find themselves in a job. It didn't matter anyway, because the day they got married, they would be fired and be forced to take on the role of a traditional homemaker. Women wouldn't get many choices for jobs; they only could get 'traditional' jobs like domestic servants, secretaries, nurses or teachers. And if they did get a better job, then they wouldn't get much business; no man would put his business affairs in the hands of a female lawyer nor would they go to a lady doctor, despite the condition they were in as they were seen as less superior than a male and therefore they wouldnt be able to do a better job than a man as they are too fragile or sensitive.

The differences between the 1920's, the 1950's and now are huge. However, there are a few similarities between them as well. Back then women didn't have one thing: choices. They didn't have the choice to get an education, therefore they couldn't get a job in the future. So they had to get married as that would be the only way to get the money from their husbands to take care of themselves. When women got married, all their property automatically went to their husband, so if they got a divorce, they would have absolutely nothing. Another change was with clothing. Women weren't allowed to wear pants, short skirts, and they couldn't show any leg. They always had to wear proper clothing, and they never were able to just throw on a pair of sweats and relax. This is demonstrated with the monologue including the girl in the flapper dress shown by "The girls suits were dazzling".

Today, women have much more freedom. They are able to work in jobs that were seen as obscene for a woman to be doing such as mechanics, sales, entrepreneurial and more. We have come a long way since the 1920's. We have more equality between genders in the workplace as well as having the right to vote and even living on their own or even being a single parent which was commonly looked down on. Men and women commonly share roles today which could have been seen as impossible to do back then, such has having a househusband and the wife being the bread-winner of the family. However, we still have a long way to go.

This links to Girls Like That through the monologues looking back on Scarlett's female family history. With the girl in the flapper dress, she defied her gender norms and attended a "scandalous" party. She wore a bathing suit as well as many of the other girls that were also smoking, going against her brothers wishes as it was looked down upon. In the aviator monologue, its clearly explained as wrong for a woman to fly a plane as it was seen as a mans job when the male co-pilot says "...we got some lass flyin' planes". In my monologue, the girl with flowers in her hair, she's fallen pregnant at a young age and isnt ready to start a family. In the 60's women only started to be able to make their own decisions when it came to a family, especially with the introduction of contraception in 1960 with the first contraceptive pill. And in the final monologue with the girl in the shoulder pads, she is sexually assaulted/inappropriately approached by her boss and ends up resolving the situation with confidence and professionalism, showing the growing strength and individuality that has grown for females throughout the years.

http://edu.glogster.com/glog/1920s-role-of-women-and-men/1mol1ak60lh

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We had a miscommunication and ended up painting one of the steps blue, as it was discussed in the meeting and the notes from the meeting werent distributed at the time. However, once we realised that it needed to be done grey too, we were quick on it and had them painted and dried before they needed to be used.

Luckily all of this was sorted on the  before the dress rehearsal so we were able to do a full rehearsal with everything organised before the show that evening.