SumBlog 6

   Charlotte Perkins Gilman talks about relationships in the household, but most importantly her own experiences in her writing "The Yellow Wall Paper".  She talks about the organization of society and how you can link economy with the sex of person, and that the man is the employer in a marriage while the woman is the employee like a business.  Or there could be a partnership in marriage but at the time of her writing, that was very rare.
   She compared a woman's life to the life of a horse, they both help produce more wealth, but have no means to create money for themselves.  That the man will always be the main component in a marriage, the center of a marriage.  How we live in a man's perspective society, an androcentric culture.
   I believe this is still on going, this androcentric culture.  Sure women have more rights than they use to but it's still the American way to have the woman at home with the children, cooking and cleaning, and the man becoming the provider.  With society changing and evolving politically women have been in the work force more and more but are still and few cents under paid than men.  I think it will be interesting to see what the future will hold for women.  Will there be equality?  Will men accept women having a higher status than them?  And will society expect a single mother working on her income alone to provide for her children?