Biographies Of Hegemony: The Struggle Of Gender Equality

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The cultural ties the Citadel have with the fourth class system and southern culture and in the Ivy League Universities with Wall Street and the upperclass capitalism leads to misogyny. Men diliberlty insult women by stereotyping females as weaker individuals. Their rage emerges from the possibility that the long held traditions that the men were so proud to uphold would disappear. The students fear to change inspired degradation. Nevertheless, the possibility of accepting women made the cadets feel rage, especially since, “According to the Citadel creed of the cadet,” Lake said, “women are objects, they’re things that you can do with whatever you want to” (Fauldi 85). The boys did not think that their ideologies about women were ill because the men did not receive severe consequences. …show more content…
The institutions think that women lack judgement simply because they think differently than men. The corporate men seem to underestimate women’s capabilities, as Kate Miller recalls, “I felt like the first thing people saw when they looked at me was not a bright person who had been admitted to the analyst class but a black woman” (Ho 184). The corporations aim to find the best and the brightest, and under their regimen, women are not classified under this hiring category. Nonetheless, the Broken Windows Theory does not exist in the institutions as the institutions know that Wall Streets extortion tactics are aimed only for white male privileged men. No methods are used to end it because the high class capitalism endorses malicious change instead of minimizing the spread of mysigogy and the sense of inferiority. This could eventually lead to women wanting to wage war against the institutions putting in jeopardy the institutions prestigious

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