Since before America was even a nation, women have struggled to understand their role in society and the rights to which they are entitled. America, being built on the desire of immigrants to live the American dream, however the American dream can only be achieved if you have a wife who stays at home and raises a strong family. Men live the American dream by limiting women's rights to take care of their family and home in order to create a strong family. However, this excuse created by men, keeping women inside to take care of their family, was really because men see women as a threat to their profession and personal social status. Because men believe that their personal power is built on the strength of family, they ask their wives to raise future generations. This alone proves that men don't truly see their wives as idiots considering they trust them to create a strong family and future generation. Men in the 1800s would have guaranteed women's rights, allowing them to be useful only for raising a family, by the way they treated their wives but as generations and years passed, women were continually humiliated by men but also through the use of female roles in the media. Starting in the early 1800s, men, their wives and children made the journey to America, yet women might as well have been seen not as wives but as another piece of land, precisely in a new country that considered women duties were the same in both the East and the West. In both places, men and women were believed to belong to “different spheres.” Barbara Welter delves into these areas in depth through her essay “The Cult of True Femininity: 1820-1860” (1966). Welters describes the masculine sphere focused around the world of workforce, ... at the center of the paper ... and success along with the fear that men have of the power that women have. The very negative attitude and comments of American men on the possibility of the nation being governed by a female president demonstrate that it is impossible to think that a woman is not still seen as inferior to men and considered destined to raise a strong family to strengthen herself. our country run by men. Works Cited Hymowitz, Carol and Michaele Weissman. A history of women in America. New York: Bantam, 1978. Print.Lambert, Miranda. "Lyrics to "Mom's Broken Heart"." AZ text. Musix Match and Web. 01 December 2013.Ricco, Michaele. “Television Families of the Fifties.” Network of the fifties. Np, 2010. Web. 02 December 2013. Rolling Stones. "Mother's Little Helper Lyrics." Freak lyrics. MTV Network and Web. 02 December 2013.Welter, Barbara. "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860." Np, 1966. Web. 6 October. 2013.