Gender Roles

For as long as we can all remember, women, men, and children have all had roles in this world. Children were made to go to school, help around the house, men were made to go to work and make money to pay the bills for the house, and women were meant to cook, clean, and please their men. The text "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid shows the gender roles situation of woman. It explains all the things girls should do in order to be the perfect woman, and then men will want to make them their wives. In the text, it says "...you mean to say that after all that you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker wont let near the bread?" This is showing how once you do everything to be the perfect women, men will be bound to wife a woman. But do why do women need to work towards becoming a wife, and pleasing her man? Why do women have to do all the stuff around the house; cook, clean, etc. Why can't women be the ones to work, and bring home the money, and the men be the ones to cook and clean? Or best of all, why can't both parties take part in both? Women have always been expected to be the perfect mother, and house wife for men. They have always been expected to settle down, and wear nice long dresses that go pasted their knees. But some women just aren't about that. Some women want to go out and party, and don't ever want kids, or to even be married. So why are gender roles a thing? We only have one life, and it would be wasted going by what other people expect people to be.