media. One familiar outlet is television, and the old and new shows it offers

for comparison. The best way is to look at two similar television shows.

One from the sixties and seventies, Bewitched, and the other from the

nineties to current, Charmed. Bewitched and Charmed can be used as a

compatible comparison because these shows are built on the same general

storyline. Both have strong female characters that are mothers, sisters,

wives, and witches. Also, the shows have equally strong male roles that

show husbands, in-laws, and strong masculine personalities. Within these

two television shows you can see how mainstream ideals and masculine and

feminine personalities have changed but the general principles are the same.

By evaluating the characters, each show portrays we can begin to

compare the male and female gender roles from earlier television against

today. One way we can look at this is the way each female character dresses

in relationship to each other and their male counter parts yesterday and

today. By looking at each woman’s duties within the family we can see the

nightclub owner you rarely see her in an apron. Even when she takes care of

kind of man, while Samantha was expected to fry it up. Today’s female

thing. With any other matter like home, word or children she did as Darren

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