Question 1
From a young age, I recognized my mother as my caregiver and my father as the provider for our family. The concept of women’s role in a family setting as a caregiver and a father’s as provider is not new. As I grow older, I have realized that this view is traditional and does not apply to all men and women or family dynamics.
My parents first taught me about these roles by setting them as a standard. My mother would prepare meals, get me ready for school, do housework, run errands, and manage bills. Meanwhile, my father completed more “masculine tasks” such as working everyday, completing yard work and making sure the doors were locked every night. In addition, attending private school my whole life, I was taught about these “traditional” …show more content…
407). The glass elevator effect occurs when men are pushed upward in “female- dominated” professional fields. Men often receive hidden advantages, allowing them to advance further and faster in certain professions because of their gender. It is hard not to agree with the glass elevator effect, as it easily observed in the workplace. For example, education is a profession typically occupied by women, but generally men hold authoritative positions such as principal and headmaster. The author’s research concludes that in female dominated fields such as education “men were assumed to be more competent” and “better leaders than women” (p. 408). I think because society still accepts stereotypes about masculinity, men are assumed to be more natural leaders than …show more content…
These contradictions include personal grooming and sexual choices. Women often face contradiction when it comes to personal grooming, specifically body hair. For example, women are told depilation is a personal choice but are also told not removing body is dirty and unattractive. Fahs states “women… endorse the idea that removing body hair is a personal choice” but if they choose not to “they often face intense negative consequences” (p. 362). Women are pressured to embrace their natural side, while also being expected to remain sexually desirable through depilation. Secondly, society tells women they are able to express their sexuality by engaging with as many partners as they wish but are also supposed to remain sexually pure. When women choose to express their sexuality by having sexual relations with multiple partners they are often labeled as “promiscuous” or called names such as “slut” and “whore”. Conversely, when women remain pure, engaging with few or no partners, women are labeled as “prudes”. Essentially, women are allowed to have sexual experiences so long as “it remains in the stereotyped confines of marriage and romantic love” (p.
From a young age, I recognized my mother as my caregiver and my father as the provider for our family. The concept of women’s role in a family setting as a caregiver and a father’s as provider is not new. As I grow older, I have realized that this view is traditional and does not apply to all men and women or family dynamics.
My parents first taught me about these roles by setting them as a standard. My mother would prepare meals, get me ready for school, do housework, run errands, and manage bills. Meanwhile, my father completed more “masculine tasks” such as working everyday, completing yard work and making sure the doors were locked every night. In addition, attending private school my whole life, I was taught about these “traditional” …show more content…
407). The glass elevator effect occurs when men are pushed upward in “female- dominated” professional fields. Men often receive hidden advantages, allowing them to advance further and faster in certain professions because of their gender. It is hard not to agree with the glass elevator effect, as it easily observed in the workplace. For example, education is a profession typically occupied by women, but generally men hold authoritative positions such as principal and headmaster. The author’s research concludes that in female dominated fields such as education “men were assumed to be more competent” and “better leaders than women” (p. 408). I think because society still accepts stereotypes about masculinity, men are assumed to be more natural leaders than …show more content…
These contradictions include personal grooming and sexual choices. Women often face contradiction when it comes to personal grooming, specifically body hair. For example, women are told depilation is a personal choice but are also told not removing body is dirty and unattractive. Fahs states “women… endorse the idea that removing body hair is a personal choice” but if they choose not to “they often face intense negative consequences” (p. 362). Women are pressured to embrace their natural side, while also being expected to remain sexually desirable through depilation. Secondly, society tells women they are able to express their sexuality by engaging with as many partners as they wish but are also supposed to remain sexually pure. When women choose to express their sexuality by having sexual relations with multiple partners they are often labeled as “promiscuous” or called names such as “slut” and “whore”. Conversely, when women remain pure, engaging with few or no partners, women are labeled as “prudes”. Essentially, women are allowed to have sexual experiences so long as “it remains in the stereotyped confines of marriage and romantic love” (p.