Topic > Being a Woman Essays: The Challenge of Being a Woman

Lämmchen's mentality belongs to traditional values ​​while her physical actions belong to new feminine values. Her actions as a new woman were becoming pregnant before getting married (Fallada 7), having a source of personal income and savings (Fallada 21-22), not being able to do women's jobs (Fallada 64), and later becoming the main family supporter. However, her mental values ​​allowed her to be the traditional woman, such as taking care of her husband's well-being, cooking for him (Fallada 64), and taking care of his shrimp after birth. For some people right now, they see Lämmchen as a new woman and will become judges. There were men in this period who judged new women; Hans Ostwald criticizes women like Lämmchen for his morality of becoming pregnant before getting married (Ostwald