I found this article on Comicvine and it made me realize that women in comic books have really come a long way from what they were portrayed as when comic books first came out.
Starting from the 1930-1940's (the Golden Ages), the most super a woman was in a comic book was that she had a career, or had a romantic role, or was just a cute perky teenage girl, but as the world and the lives of women evolved so did the roles for women in comic books.
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| DC - Lois Lane |
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| Marvel - Invisible Woman |
In the Silver Ages (60's and 70's) women in comic books were known to have a connection with male hero alter ego, slowly having heroine alter egos of their own, and becoming more and more prominent in each story line.
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| Diversity - Storm |
The Bronze Ages (1980's) superheroines were known to have equality and a whole new transformation with either physical or mental being making them that much more of a female superhero and as women.
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| Birds of Prey |
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| Portrayal |
And now in Modern Age comic books female superheros are have a very diverse range of how they are perceived, whether it be a sex symbol or an empowered women, superheroines are looked at as women who can basically look like anything, wear anything, and do anything that they want. Super women of the Modern Age also take on modern day lifestyles also, examples few being same sex relations, single parenting, and good girl and bad girl roles.
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| Vampirella |
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| Elektra |
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| Black Canary |
Give the article a read and let me know your thoughts on the roles of women in comic books throughout the ages!
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