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  • Essay / Role of Separation of Spheres - 886

    As previously stated, the ideology behind Separation of Spheres focuses on the fact that women had no choice in adhering to their responsibilities – it was simply necessary for the stability and maintenance of the family. Similarly, the implicit reference to the second change emphasized women's intensive responsibility, to the extent that men did not consider it their duty to take care of domestic work and childrearing. The responsibility of men hardly changes, if at all; if men provide help, it is occasional and voluntary, never because they need it. Furthermore, both of these concepts have a patriarchal connotation and reflect the growing inequality towards women, since men are somehow superior in the choices they are offered/ready to make. This perception dates back to the beginning of the separation of the spheres, when previously men shared household chores and responsibility for raising children. The division of labor implied a control-obedience relationship between man and woman, in which the man chose his priorities and the woman had no choice. This ideology has endured through the years, even when the second turn was introduced. Even when women operated in competitive fields alongside men, they were expected to return home and fulfill their duties as