And so, I was mortified to realize that my daughter wasn’t paying attention. Instead, she was staring blankly at cartoons, forsa
king the hypnotic power of fire for that of the television; the memory of the tribe, for commercials. I was so shocked, I couldn’t speak! Thousands of questions robbed me of my sleep. What had happened? Where had I gone wrong? What kind of society had we created? What had we women achieved by leaving the home? Yes, we had won rights that belonged to us and we had earned recognition for our intellectual activity and a better place in the world, but with great sadness I was forced to accept that none of the revolutions we participated in had managed to create a proper system for the creation of the New Man. What does this excerpt reveal about gender roles?
Regarding gender roles, this text reveals that there was a time when women were undervalued without their rights or intellectual ability recognized.
Explanation:
The narrator of the text reveals that women had to fight to gain their rights and have their intellectual capacity recognized. This shows that the narrator lived in a time when gender roles were defined in a way that did not value women and let men lead everything. For this reason, women had to fight for their valorization and succeeded, but the narrator acknowledges that even after so many struggles, women could not create a proper situation. This shows that gender roles are still unfair to women.
