The reality of living as a woman is harsh and unforgiving. From being treated as unequal to their male counterparts to being blamed for any wrong done for them, women have always been unfairly treated in both personal and professional settings. This unfairness has stemmed from the United States refusing to fully accept the changed roles of women in society. No longer to women sit at home and take care of the kids and house hold. Instead these women play large parts in America’s workforce. From all ranges from minimum wage workers to powerful executives, women have a large presence in the professional world. However, it seems near impossible given that the old gender roles that were filled by women refuse to disappear. This leads to women called
…show more content…
She delves into the fact that more often than not, women are forced to just take what they are given. They have to comply with what men want from them in order to save their careers. They are forced to choose between their careers or their well-being, which is a difficult choice. She writes that “harassment of every sort is rampant in every industry, ranging from explicit quid pro quos…to egregious sexual hazing” (Kipnis). She goes on to write that “the less job security [one has], the worse it is” (Kipnis). It is unfortunate that women have to choose between the lesser of two evils. The consequences of being unable to come forth about harassment when it occurs even worse. Society starts to victim-blame, ignoring the circumstances that the harassment occurred under. Most of the victim-blaming comes from men, which is to be expected since they are the ones in power when it comes to these situations. This has led to women holding back their accusations for a long time, hoping for a better time in which they would be able to speak the truth. There is a large influx of accusations, but unfortunately society is still against them, being that few to no consequences have been given to perpetrators. The history of women having to choose between their careers and some other aspect of their lives is unfortunately …show more content…
It seems to be that a woman can only choose one: the home or the office. This choice is similar to the choice between a woman’s career or well-being mentioned by Kipnis in her article. In the book, William Marston’s lifestyle choice hurt the futures of both Sadie Holloway and Olive Byrne. With Holloway, when Marston delivers a rather unfair ultimatum, she decided to take advantage of it. While the idea of using relationships to her advantage was a very progressive thought at the time, she used the reasoning that “this way of living might offer a solution to the bind she was in as a woman who wanted to have both a career and children” (Lepore 26%). Sadie fell victim to the idea that she could not do both, even though she had the power to do so. She was the one supporting the entire family, the breadwinner, and without her it is likely that family would have crumbled. Olive also fell victim to the idea that women had to chose one role. “[She] was going on for a Ph.D. but [she] got sidetracked by marriage and motherhood,” and so she never achieved her professional dreams (Lepore 27%). Since Holloway was working, Olive had to take care of the kids because Marston did not. Marston’s inability to help the family either way forced these women to choose between her career and her family, a choice either woman should never have had to make. This reinforced the idea that women could not
She delves into the fact that more often than not, women are forced to just take what they are given. They have to comply with what men want from them in order to save their careers. They are forced to choose between their careers or their well-being, which is a difficult choice. She writes that “harassment of every sort is rampant in every industry, ranging from explicit quid pro quos…to egregious sexual hazing” (Kipnis). She goes on to write that “the less job security [one has], the worse it is” (Kipnis). It is unfortunate that women have to choose between the lesser of two evils. The consequences of being unable to come forth about harassment when it occurs even worse. Society starts to victim-blame, ignoring the circumstances that the harassment occurred under. Most of the victim-blaming comes from men, which is to be expected since they are the ones in power when it comes to these situations. This has led to women holding back their accusations for a long time, hoping for a better time in which they would be able to speak the truth. There is a large influx of accusations, but unfortunately society is still against them, being that few to no consequences have been given to perpetrators. The history of women having to choose between their careers and some other aspect of their lives is unfortunately …show more content…
It seems to be that a woman can only choose one: the home or the office. This choice is similar to the choice between a woman’s career or well-being mentioned by Kipnis in her article. In the book, William Marston’s lifestyle choice hurt the futures of both Sadie Holloway and Olive Byrne. With Holloway, when Marston delivers a rather unfair ultimatum, she decided to take advantage of it. While the idea of using relationships to her advantage was a very progressive thought at the time, she used the reasoning that “this way of living might offer a solution to the bind she was in as a woman who wanted to have both a career and children” (Lepore 26%). Sadie fell victim to the idea that she could not do both, even though she had the power to do so. She was the one supporting the entire family, the breadwinner, and without her it is likely that family would have crumbled. Olive also fell victim to the idea that women had to chose one role. “[She] was going on for a Ph.D. but [she] got sidetracked by marriage and motherhood,” and so she never achieved her professional dreams (Lepore 27%). Since Holloway was working, Olive had to take care of the kids because Marston did not. Marston’s inability to help the family either way forced these women to choose between her career and her family, a choice either woman should never have had to make. This reinforced the idea that women could not