There is a very interesting book that I found that speaks about how the family has been changing since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and how the definition of family will continue to change as technology advances and gender roles become obsolete. The book that I found, which is located on Google books, is titled Defining the Family: Law, Technology, and Reproduction in an Uneasy Age by Janet L. Dolgin. The book tells about how the family began changing slightly nearly two centuries ago when the growth of factories and other job opportunities were made available to women and others, in contrast to the jobs that were solely for men in the time before that. The progression of women was slow at first but picked up throughout time and continued to progress to what it is today. With the advancement of society came the advancement of technology, which allowed women to be just as effective as men in the workplace since it no longer involved strength and brawn, but instead ability to think and brains.
With the change in technology came a major economic swing in which society eventually went from the assumption to men being breadwinners in their families and supporting their spouses and children to a society where women are just as capable to be the lead in the family, as far as economic stances go. This was very interesting to me and I thought that it was amazing to see the advances of women in the past century in relation to the advancement of technology.
Although I did not read this entire book, the excerpts that I read were very interesting and I recommend it to anyone interested in the subject.
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