Blue, trucks, tough, and football. Apply this seemingly random list to a child and for most people a boy’s face pop into their imagination. If I were to have listed pink, flowers, kind, and volleyball the result is almost always a girl. In the society of the modern world, boys and girls are expected from the moment they are born to exhibit specific traits that contrast from their opposing gender. This discrimination spawns from the words that are spoken by the people and continues to infect all of society into adulthood. Defining gender and sex discrimination in language is important. People who are harmfully targeted are identified and protected, and mediums which are found are used to further eliminate this everlasting botheration.
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It is recommended to use terms like waiter or server, flight attendant, and actor or performer instead. This avoids any indication that certain positions are only meant for one gender. Slowly but surely we are eliminating certain professional stereotypes. For example, there are many male nurses and plenty of female doctors in today’s world. Although they haven’t evened out yet, male nurses and female doctors have made clear that any career is possible and expectable for both genders to take on.
Proven true men and women do in fact have far different hormonal designs. Estrogen and Testosterone are two of the main components that make men and women different. Estrogen has been proven to cause a stable mood and sense of well-being, feminine sexual behavior, and improved cognition. Women’s levels range from seventy to three- hundred seventy. In contrast men’s levels normally lay somewhere between fifteen and sixty …show more content…
One day I was working a register and a coworker was bagging groceries. An elderly man came up and checked out. We had a perfectly regular conversation until he turned to my coworker and said, “Thank you young man.” The problem was my coworker was a girl, but she had short hair. She had handled this mistake before and simply but kindly replied, “I’m a girl.” The old man snapped his head up and gruffly said “Well then start acting like one.” My coworker and I were awestruck as he left the store. My coworker was obviously offended, but there wasn’t much she could do. I offered my condolences and told her how rude I thought that was of the
The U.S. …show more content…
It is recommended to use terms like waiter or server, flight attendant, and actor or performer instead. This avoids any indication that certain positions are only meant for one gender. Slowly but surely we are eliminating certain professional stereotypes. For example, there are many male nurses and plenty of female doctors in today’s world. Although they haven’t evened out yet, male nurses and female doctors have made clear that any career is possible and expectable for both genders to take on.
Proven true men and women do in fact have far different hormonal designs. Estrogen and Testosterone are two of the main components that make men and women different. Estrogen has been proven to cause a stable mood and sense of well-being, feminine sexual behavior, and improved cognition. Women’s levels range from seventy to three- hundred seventy. In contrast men’s levels normally lay somewhere between fifteen and sixty …show more content…
One day I was working a register and a coworker was bagging groceries. An elderly man came up and checked out. We had a perfectly regular conversation until he turned to my coworker and said, “Thank you young man.” The problem was my coworker was a girl, but she had short hair. She had handled this mistake before and simply but kindly replied, “I’m a girl.” The old man snapped his head up and gruffly said “Well then start acting like one.” My coworker and I were awestruck as he left the store. My coworker was obviously offended, but there wasn’t much she could do. I offered my condolences and told her how rude I thought that was of the