american && european attitudes .

According to de Tocqueville, American and European attitudes towards women differ. He described the European attitudes as the women and men being “alike”, while the male and female American roles are divided. He says with European women and men being alike, it degrades both genders and leads to “weak men” and “disorderly women”. The American attitudes toward women are sort of like a democracy. The American women are usually the ones who are not doing the work outside the home, they are the ones doing the household work and taking care of the children. Even though they remain in the house, they are not doing heavy work either. I believe this is what de Tocqueville meant by American democracy enabling women to become “more and more equal of men”. He is saying that they are not doing the same type of work or even in the same setting of the work they do, therefore there is no way the women can be equal of men.