This past November boasted the first Barbie commercial to feature a boy, and that ad isn’t even going to air on television. Fifty-six years since Barbie made her debut and this whole time ads didn’t feature boys playing with her. The whole world seems to be broken up into a divide between male and female, the pink and blue. The romantic languages of French, Italian, and Spanish give all of their words a gender. That divide is called the gender binary. The concept of the gender binary cannot be broached without an understanding of what gender is. Gender is a concept that most people do not think about, girls are girls and boys are boys, but, in reality, it is much more complicated than that. Gender is described by GenderSpectrum.org as ‘the complex interrelationship between an individual’s sex (gender biology), one’s internal sense of self as male, female, both or neither (gender identity) as well as one’s outward presentations and behaviors (gender
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The wage gap is the 21 percent gap between the earnings of women and men in the United States (The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap). Fifty-two years have passed since the Equal Pay act was passed and women still aren’t getting their due pay. This is because their work is seen worth lesser than the work of their male counterparts. The wage gap is also a large issue the in the STEM fields where a study by Yale scientist Corinne Moss-Racusin found that across the board an application with the same exact credentials yielded a higher income offered when the application had a male name on it. In the words of Meg Urry, Chairwoman of the Department of Physics at Yale, ‘The only way for science to progress is if we have the broadest and best possible input of brains. However, this progression is impossible unless scientists can find a way of avoiding the gender bias altogether’ the sentiment of which can be applied to all of
The wage gap is the 21 percent gap between the earnings of women and men in the United States (The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap). Fifty-two years have passed since the Equal Pay act was passed and women still aren’t getting their due pay. This is because their work is seen worth lesser than the work of their male counterparts. The wage gap is also a large issue the in the STEM fields where a study by Yale scientist Corinne Moss-Racusin found that across the board an application with the same exact credentials yielded a higher income offered when the application had a male name on it. In the words of Meg Urry, Chairwoman of the Department of Physics at Yale, ‘The only way for science to progress is if we have the broadest and best possible input of brains. However, this progression is impossible unless scientists can find a way of avoiding the gender bias altogether’ the sentiment of which can be applied to all of