WHEN I had my first boyfriend in high school and was waiting for him to pick me up to go to the movies, my dad asked me if I had money on me.
"He'll probably pay," I remember my father saying, "but you should still offer."
He did pay. When I told that to my dad later, he replied, "Some things never change."
My father's statement was based on his own dating experience 40-plus years ago, as well as his experience raising two other daughters who grew up in the 1980s. From his testimony I concluded that, yes, chivalry to some extent has stayed constant. Yet in the wake of the ever-progressing feminist movement, does it risk becoming obsolete?
The customs of chivalry date back to an era in which women were dependent on men, but the times have since changed radically. According to the Department for Professional Employees, the number of women in the workforce has risen from 5.1 million circa 1900 to 66.2 million by 2009. To put that in perspective, women at the beginning of the 20th century composed only 18 percent of the labor force in the United States, but by the first decade of the 21st century they accounted for 46.7 percent of the labor force.
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