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Puritan Gender Roles

Puritanism was a primary era during the 16^th and the 17^th centuries whose main controversy revolved around how different men and women were perceived in the larger community. The puritan society did not consider the roles, rights, and representation of men and women to be the same, with men taking a controlling lead in decision-making, law, and control of social welfare in general. Women were considered inferior to men because they had to oblige with whatever was decided by men. The mismatch between the expectation of men and women in the puritan era and community signals a constrained social system with imbalanced distribution of power between genders. The puritan gender roles for men consist of superior duties in managing society and family units. However, women’s roles were subjugated and diminished to marriage, religion, and attending to men’s needs, particularly during the war.

Men had prominent roles in deciding the community's fate; this also entails controlling what women could or could not do. Smith (59) depicted a...