Religion
Christian Ideology
The Idea that a man and woman pertained to specific characteristics in the Western World were universally held views of the eighteenth century. These established characteristics were derived from the Christian Ideology of woman being inferior to men according to the Bible and the enforcing biological gender stereotypes of contemporary Science and medicine.
Religion, especially Christianity in the Industrial Era presented people with the gender assignments that men were the dominant sex and woman pertaining various differences in physical make up made them the less useful sex in providing anything to a family by nature and or God's will.
According to contemporary Science and medicine, Men and women were thought to inhabit bodies with different physical properties fundamentally different qualities and virtues. Men, as the stronger sex, were thought to be intelligent, courageous, and determined. Women, on the other hand, were more governed by their emotions, and their virtues were expected to be chastity, modesty, compassion, and piety. Men were thought to be more aggressive; women more passive. These differences were echoed in the faults to which each sex was thought to be prone. Men were prone to violence, obstinacy, and selfishness, while women's sins were viewed as the result of their tendency to be ruled by their bodies and their emotions, notably lust, excessive passion, and laziness.
Religion, especially Christianity in the Industrial Era presented people with the gender assignments that men were the dominant sex and woman pertaining various differences in physical make up made them the less useful sex in providing anything to a family by nature and or God's will.
According to contemporary Science and medicine, Men and women were thought to inhabit bodies with different physical properties fundamentally different qualities and virtues. Men, as the stronger sex, were thought to be intelligent, courageous, and determined. Women, on the other hand, were more governed by their emotions, and their virtues were expected to be chastity, modesty, compassion, and piety. Men were thought to be more aggressive; women more passive. These differences were echoed in the faults to which each sex was thought to be prone. Men were prone to violence, obstinacy, and selfishness, while women's sins were viewed as the result of their tendency to be ruled by their bodies and their emotions, notably lust, excessive passion, and laziness.