From the seventies change began when patriarchy was challenged by women’s movements and individuals such as Germaine Greer. In 1971, Greer’s book The Female Unich focused on women’s issues and rights helping women to challenge many of the patriarchal views long held by Australian society. Many women began to campaign for equality and the freedom to be seen as individuals. Throughout the 70’s up until current times patriarchy has been challenged on all levels, enabling many women to overcome societ

The contemporary males of today, on reading this text, would see it as suggesting a belittling of them and a put down, that they are unable to look after themselves and live a successful life with out being fussed over by women “And all that her good house keeping means to him”. In contrast a sixties male would see this text as a good foundation for a marriage with its clearly defined roles for men and women, a blue print for a successful marriage.

Whilst taken from the sixties point of view, it would been seen as the truth to many women in that time who would regard it as gospel because in that particular time women were told to be submissive to their husbands and to follow on with traditional values. Females growing up in patriarchal households learnt from infancy that they were expected to play certain gender roles, and to challenge male authority was not acceptable.

The main focus of this expository text taken from the magazine Women’s World is on how women should work on making thei

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