Sexism Against Women

Sexism or gender discrimination is prejudice based on a person's sex. Sexism affects both men and women, but primarily women. There are a lot of examples that show discrimination against women especially in employment. One of those examples is obvious during and after World War II in United States because women, increasingly, were needed to work in war production factories, and after the war, there were abrupt unemployment and replacement of all working women (Albee and Perry, 1998). In addition, women's pay and positions are still unequal to men (Gervias, hillard and Vescio, 2010). Women in the U.S report one to two sexist incidents per week, including verbal and non-verbal behaviors (Gervias, hillard and Vescio, 2010). It seems that there is a great unequal treatment against women and I think there is no woman who does not face a sexist situation in her daily life. Women have especially experienced the negative effects of sexism particularly psychological and social effects. Sexism against women has psychological effects on her life. Those psychological effects include decreasing …show more content…
As a result, women have suffered from psychological and social impacts of this discrimination on their mental health and social life. The increased feeling of depression and low self steam among women are an indicator of the negative impact of sexism that they experience. No one can ignore that there is unequal employment opportunities between women and men and this is because of sex discrimination. On the other hand, sexual harassment that women experience every moment is the destroying impact on women's self steam and their secure. I think there should be a confronting stance against sexism against women. Also, an urgent law is required to decrease the prevalence of sexual harassment. Men should be awarded that woman is not an appearance or a servant; she has rights to share in society and