1. Clara Gomez Malia Cabitac Period:6 October 4, 2013

2.   Speaker: Arthur Miller  Subject: Gender roles in Puritan Society  Occasion: To learn about the gender roles in Puritan society  Audience: Teacher and classmates  Purpose: Information we need to know in order to better understand The Crucible SOAPST

3.   Women were considered to be “the weaker vessel in both body and mind.”  Women manipulated their born roles in order to fulfill their own aspirations and goals. Women's Role

4.   The community leaders were male and they readily accepted the supposed inferiority of women.  It is this belief that made men react harshly or ashamedly to women who openly objected to this gender role. Men’s roles in Puritan society

5.   The husbands of all wives was absent or away almost all of the time, so the women had a lot of work. They make their own clothes for themselves and for their children, they cooked everything, they cleaned the house, they taught their children how to read and write and even more. Overall, women spent 20+ years of pregnancy & nursing Women’s role in Puritan society

6.   The Puritans were a varied group of religious reformers who emerged within the Church of England during the middle of the sixteenth century. Facts