evolution of roles and identity

The roles you play and assign yourself define your identity. They evolve on a daily basis and therefore are continually changing. Traditional roles are a thing of the past in an age of technology and fast paced assimilation to the forces and structures that guide us.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Susan B. Anthony, to name two in particular, are two women that progressed the traditional roles of women and redefined the identities of women. In their time the drastically changed the manner in which women were perceived by society and therefore changed the definition of women. The roles that women played adapted and changed. This progress ultimately changed the definition of a woman.
Today women still continue to change the environmental roles that they inhabit and therefore change to common perception of their gender as well as challenge their identity. As more men begin to stay at home and more women remain in the workplace the identity of women is as constant evolution with the roles they play.