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Changing traditional gender roles seems to be difficult not because woman or man dont have the necessary skills for other ones tasks but because everyone carries on a symbol of his world. Societys evolution especially on woman valorization redefines gender roles promoting a woman more active, ambitious and independent and a man more emotional ad involved in household tasks. Women of our days have more liberty to choose between the family model- these ones are being more obedient and anchored in tradition (the feminine type), the feminist model- whos priority is the career (the antifeminine type) or the middle model adopted by the double career type of woman - profession and family. On the base of any of these choices are variables like social-status, race, education level, cultures values etc. We are assisting to a reprioritization of woman needs and so professional success became more interesting and even attractive than family one probably because it brings something new. Women are motivated to choose the career by elements as the wish for financial independency, the need to prove her capacities, to open and better integrate in modern society and the possibility to control and not being only controlled. All this reasons offer her a psychological equilibrium. Most of the men consider womens career as a conflict source having arguments like: women will neglect theirs family attributions, the imminent change of mans authority, his incertitude concerning the professional competition and the risk to deteriorate the marital relation. Even at first side man and children are felling the stress generated by the new status of woman, shes living an interior conflict as well. Woman need to understand her need for self-accomplishment but the remains of traditional mentality still affect her modern vision. So our children should make a difference on gender roles perspective but we are in a vicious circle because every family is raising their kids for a passed time, influenced by their own mentality and resistance to change. The main idea is that both women and men should consider this roles exchange like a challenge and also accept that a man as well as a woman can do anything with willing. The concept of family has changed and sometimes it was for the best, sometimes for the worst. Although women have more rights, divorce is commonplace in our current society and many children live in one-parent households. Women are still discriminated against in American society and some us still do the majority of household work regardless of how many hours we work per week or if we have a househusband. But we now have opportunities that would not have been imagined fifty-years ago. Children do not have to see their mothers treated like chattel and we almost had a female President of the United States. Nothing remains the same - ever. The constantly changing landscape of the American family owes a lot to the women of the 1950s.