What was considered a characteristic of a “true woman” in the nineteenth century and how it differs from modern social perception

In the nineteenth century, the characteristics that made the average woman very different from those that we see today in western society.

Thus, at that time, women played a secondary role in society. She was a figure with little social, political and economic weight, due to the limitations she suffered in the patriarchal context of the society of the 1800s, where man was the only one who made the relevant decisions for her family and at the social level. Therefore, the figure of the woman was limited to the upbringing of her children and the care of the home, being a model of behavior that woman who fulfilled these functions efficiently.

Instead, today, thanks to the feminist struggle and international progressivism that have led to a greater perception of rights by minorities, women occupy a level of equality with men in every way. Thus, today women occupy hierarchical jobs, have the same civil and political rights as men, and even intersperse domestic responsibilities with them. In addition, many women have reached positions of power that were previously dominated only by men, as is the case, for example, of Angela Merkel in Germany.