Man vs. Women “You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second”-Francis O'Grady. We tend to give a man and women a role in life. Whether we put employment, color, marraige role, dating or emotional expression its part as a masculine or a feminine trait. This all leads to gender expectations. Gender expectations is a set of social and behavioral norms that, within a specific culture, are widely considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex. In the book called The McGraw-Hill Reader, we have read several essays about gender expectations. Also we had an article called “Masai Woman Rebels
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Gender expectations play a big role here as well.For example, there is a man and a woman applying for a job in construction both have the same work experience and college education. They go through the whole application process, they told they wait a week and you we will decide. They get called and then the man had got the job and women did not. Why is this?? It all comes down to gender expectations. We tend to see a muscular man working on this job than a man. we put labels on people. We say women are weak.Jobs that tend to be masculine are : truck drivers, firefighters, mechanics, CEO, doctor, president,etc. For feminine job it is: waitress,nurse,maid,wedding planner,etc. I can relate to gender expectation to the job I wanted when I was growing up. Our parents always tell us to be whatever you want to be. I always wanted to be a nurse because being a doctor was too much. That is what I had told my parents. They both told me “Thats a woman's job.” I started to cry, they had crushed my dreams they said “Real men work as in a move or, sweat like in constructions.” They told me “Why don't you become a cop, construction worker, or correctional officer.” In their head they see a nurse as a woman's job and that's something that goes back to media. All the nurses are female they never show a male. I feel like there should not be a limit to what a female or male should work with. If there is a woman or male both applying for the same job and it tends to apply …show more content…
Culture is a way of thinking, behaving, or working that exists in place or organization. In one of the essays read in class called “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit,” was about the Laguna Tribe and how their culture viewed the woman as the ruler or were superior. These women were tuff according to Silko. They were the ones that were working on the Pueblo building adobe houses. That sounds like something the men should be doing. But in this culture the men were basket making and taking care of the kids. Other things this tribe does is they see their God as a woman. They call her Mother Creator. Its like when we recite the Trinity they're all men we pray too. The trinity states “Are father,son, and holy spirit,” which are all men. The dominant one in this culture is the women when usually it is the men. But in Kenya it's a different story. In the article Masai Woman Revels By Insisting On Being Equal,” by Robyn Dixon here the men rule and are the dominant ones. When I say men were the dominant is the woman had no rights. Robyn states “ A Masai woman cannot own a house, Tombo says, and her children are regarded as her husband's property (Dixon 3).” In the Kenyan tribe woman cooked, cleaned, looked out for the children. Women could not even go to school at all, because they would learn and would be able to leave her husband. We can go back a couple years to the late 1800s that woman had no rights at all. A man has all the rights and women couldn't
Gender expectations play a big role here as well.For example, there is a man and a woman applying for a job in construction both have the same work experience and college education. They go through the whole application process, they told they wait a week and you we will decide. They get called and then the man had got the job and women did not. Why is this?? It all comes down to gender expectations. We tend to see a muscular man working on this job than a man. we put labels on people. We say women are weak.Jobs that tend to be masculine are : truck drivers, firefighters, mechanics, CEO, doctor, president,etc. For feminine job it is: waitress,nurse,maid,wedding planner,etc. I can relate to gender expectation to the job I wanted when I was growing up. Our parents always tell us to be whatever you want to be. I always wanted to be a nurse because being a doctor was too much. That is what I had told my parents. They both told me “Thats a woman's job.” I started to cry, they had crushed my dreams they said “Real men work as in a move or, sweat like in constructions.” They told me “Why don't you become a cop, construction worker, or correctional officer.” In their head they see a nurse as a woman's job and that's something that goes back to media. All the nurses are female they never show a male. I feel like there should not be a limit to what a female or male should work with. If there is a woman or male both applying for the same job and it tends to apply …show more content…
Culture is a way of thinking, behaving, or working that exists in place or organization. In one of the essays read in class called “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit,” was about the Laguna Tribe and how their culture viewed the woman as the ruler or were superior. These women were tuff according to Silko. They were the ones that were working on the Pueblo building adobe houses. That sounds like something the men should be doing. But in this culture the men were basket making and taking care of the kids. Other things this tribe does is they see their God as a woman. They call her Mother Creator. Its like when we recite the Trinity they're all men we pray too. The trinity states “Are father,son, and holy spirit,” which are all men. The dominant one in this culture is the women when usually it is the men. But in Kenya it's a different story. In the article Masai Woman Revels By Insisting On Being Equal,” by Robyn Dixon here the men rule and are the dominant ones. When I say men were the dominant is the woman had no rights. Robyn states “ A Masai woman cannot own a house, Tombo says, and her children are regarded as her husband's property (Dixon 3).” In the Kenyan tribe woman cooked, cleaned, looked out for the children. Women could not even go to school at all, because they would learn and would be able to leave her husband. We can go back a couple years to the late 1800s that woman had no rights at all. A man has all the rights and women couldn't