We have seen that gender roles have changed throughout history due to social changes. While some social changes have created more liberty for unrepresented genders. Other social changes have also caused some gender restrictions. For instance, women are now able to work more and as a result earning more money than in previous historical times. However, the amount of annual money they make is still not near to the amount men make. Although, studies have shown that there is hope for the female gender to finally reach a near monetary amount as men. “In a subtle shift with momentous implications, women are on the verge of becoming more than 50 percent of U.S paid workers”. In this quote, from “Paycheck Feminism” states that the possibility verge
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Article, “Paycheck Feminism,” by Kornbluh and Homer, the writers discuss how women 's roles in the work force have changed and how there are social inequalities that still remain. Kornbluh and Homer called this changed the “paycheck feminism”. According to this article, “paycheck feminism” is when a woman becomes the majority of the workforce. As a result, women require more policy support to protect their rights and provide them with more opportunities. Hence, the original policies in the work force were made by the Social Security to protect full-time workers. Although, these policies were made to help men due past historical social demands. “The assumption was that breadwinners (presumed men) had caretakers (women, of course) holding down the home front”. In this quote we see that past social conditions that required the male as the worker and the female has the housemaid now does not correlate with modern requirements. Due to these gender establishments when women are given an opportunity to become independent they are given gender roadblocks that prevent them from being socially …show more content…
In this article, we see that the author uses the word body, repetitively to outline a symbolism with inequality in a patriarchal society. “This state of conscious and permanent visibility is a sign that the tight, disciplinary control of the body has gotten a hold on the mind as well”. In this quote, I analyzed that the body, therefore, being an object is controlled from all its components as well as their spiritual mind. Which can be connected to the idea that women in a patriarchal society, not just use their body, such as their hands or leg, but they also uses their mind and emotions to work hard and to survive in a gender inequality work force. “We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine”. In this quote, this article drifts away from gender role inequality, but start focusing on the damages the patriarchal society has done to the female “body”. They state that the patriarchal society has caused women to become more obsessed with their weight, face, style, diets etc. In a nutshell, a society that is run by being a male patriarchal, leads to women being concern in conforming to feminine ideals in order to satisfy social norms. Yet, there are social limitations as to how much feminine traits are allowed to be exposed to society. “Her looseness is
Article, “Paycheck Feminism,” by Kornbluh and Homer, the writers discuss how women 's roles in the work force have changed and how there are social inequalities that still remain. Kornbluh and Homer called this changed the “paycheck feminism”. According to this article, “paycheck feminism” is when a woman becomes the majority of the workforce. As a result, women require more policy support to protect their rights and provide them with more opportunities. Hence, the original policies in the work force were made by the Social Security to protect full-time workers. Although, these policies were made to help men due past historical social demands. “The assumption was that breadwinners (presumed men) had caretakers (women, of course) holding down the home front”. In this quote we see that past social conditions that required the male as the worker and the female has the housemaid now does not correlate with modern requirements. Due to these gender establishments when women are given an opportunity to become independent they are given gender roadblocks that prevent them from being socially …show more content…
In this article, we see that the author uses the word body, repetitively to outline a symbolism with inequality in a patriarchal society. “This state of conscious and permanent visibility is a sign that the tight, disciplinary control of the body has gotten a hold on the mind as well”. In this quote, I analyzed that the body, therefore, being an object is controlled from all its components as well as their spiritual mind. Which can be connected to the idea that women in a patriarchal society, not just use their body, such as their hands or leg, but they also uses their mind and emotions to work hard and to survive in a gender inequality work force. “We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine”. In this quote, this article drifts away from gender role inequality, but start focusing on the damages the patriarchal society has done to the female “body”. They state that the patriarchal society has caused women to become more obsessed with their weight, face, style, diets etc. In a nutshell, a society that is run by being a male patriarchal, leads to women being concern in conforming to feminine ideals in order to satisfy social norms. Yet, there are social limitations as to how much feminine traits are allowed to be exposed to society. “Her looseness is