while in many cities in the United States, women have been able to escape from those traditional roles.
Therefore, in the early 1930s, the role of women in Oklahoma became the most important issue. The Oklahoma women want to participate in private
and public life. According to Tudor 2000: 24 states work covers the world of paid work outside the home but within the particular issues of work and the
role of woman in the wider society can only be fully understood within the context of family issues.
1. Oklahoman Women in Family
The women‘s roles in the family as a wife and mother shape women to behave like what society constructs. It creates restrictions and
discrimination in family. The discrimination toward women in family happens because the women participation of women for expressing their
demand in public sphere is very little, so that most women ignore thier demand, and they still believe in traditional values. According to Bard in
Tudor, 2000: 39, the role of wife, mother and housekeeper is a social norm in which it is the major factor shaping womens lives. Most
Oklahoman women perform the roles for being the ideal of a mother and a wife based on Oklahoma values. In other words, men are in control to
maintain the values. As a result, a good woman is a woman who is obedient to all commands and rules her husband.
2. Oklahoma Women in Cultural Life
In the early 20th century, the attitude of women is also governed by the system. According to Tudor 2000: 44 forms of communication,
representations of women in popular and high culture, the self- expression of women are the patriarchal regulation. Communication
between women and men is very organized and has a hierarchy. For example, a female child is not allowed to ask her father about the
familys decision. A female child should ask her mother. This is in contrast with a male child. He can directly ask his father. A
representation woman on ―high‖ culture is also very limited. Social rule, that women cannot be the highest position in all elements, is a
condition of a woman in those days. In the last, the self-expression of women, who tend to be associated with how women make up
themselves, can also be seen as a form characteristic of women in that era. Women have their own standards when dressing or makeup.
Womens clothing tends to be patterned as flower or pink. When receiving guests, a woman should make up herself and neat.
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