Sexist Communication In My Class

As a senior in college majoring in Mechanical Engineering of Technology (MET), and I did not give any attention to the communication that goes on in my courses. This communication course has given me insight on the sexist language that is exemplified. I have experiences things such as the “chilly climate” in many of my courses, and how the instructors communicate with me versus the other male students in my class. In many of my mechanical engineering classes I have had male teacher and majority of the time was the only female in the class. The teacher would initiate class by male teacher walking in and greeting the class “How are you guys?” . The guys in the class would respond and most likely ask a question. I felt as if I was overlooked …show more content…
Males are the ones who verbally dominate the classrooms so they would control the classroom climate more. Being outnumbered makes it difficult to control the climate of the classroom as a female student. I have received comments such as “you actually did well in the class” or “that’s a man job” from fellow male classmates in my MET classes. I find them highly sexist and offense because I’m judged tougher and unfairly solely on the fact I’m a female. In one of my classes we had to build a deer feeder and it was me and only one other female in the group with five male group members. We had to use the machines in the lab to build our deer feeder and we had come up with the dimensions for the parts we had to machine. I was partnered with another male student to measure triangles and cut the steel into the shapes. The rest of the guys where welding the parts together and heating the legs of the deer feeder to bend them. The other female and I were to measure angles and triangles and that’s it. I feel that was sexist because they demeaned us by giving us simple tasks because we were females while do the more difficult work. I was a better welder than the one male group member who selected to weld the parts