Women in Music and Society

In class this week we talked about women in the 1960’s and 1970’s and how their influence changed society and music drastically. Based on the songs we listened to from the 60’s, I could tell that they needed to bow down to the man. Their music talked about pleasing their husbands and doing what society expected of them. In the 70’s that all changed when the feminist movement was born. Women began to sing about what they wanted to and stopped doing everything for the men. Women started to rally for equal rights and sang about what and solo artists became much more common. We also talked about the jobs that women could hold and how they were treated in said jobs. Men often did not like that women were being hired to do a man’s job and they treated their female coworkers poorly because of it. Another freedom that women were given was birth control. This new pill gave women the right to control their bodies and took the power of having children away from the man. The drastic changes in a short span were fascinating to learn about and I enjoyed hearing the evolution of music.