The Fight for Equality
From a young age people are put into categories such as; boy and girl, strong and pretty, or intelligent and nurturer. Young girls are given baby dolls to play with and take care of whereas young boys are given building blocks and race cars. I remember when I was little, I had baby dolls and stuffed animals to play with but my sister and I also enjoyed playing with race cars and building blocks. My sister and I came up with a game that we played when we were younger and we used our imaginations and pretended that we were defending the world from monsters and sorcerers or anything we could imagine. One Halloween, we decided to dress up as aliens and a lady thought we were little …show more content…
It is an issue just about any place you go such as; the workplace, relationships, and most anywhere. Sexism can be very subtle or very recognizable depending on what it is, whether it be verbal or just certain actions. In the working field, more and more women are taking up careers and also becoming breadwinners to support their families. Society expects women to take up careers like teaching or being nurses, whereas men are expected to be the businessmen in charge. There are fewer women in higher positions and this can be due to a couple different factors. Women are seen as walking wombs no matter their personal life or whether they are attached to someone (Mccall, 2016). As a woman there is the potential to have a child and have a family and the business world sees this. This reason alone can cost a woman the type of career she is going for because at any point in time she may have to leave because of having a child. This is a more pronounced way of sexism and is more obvious. A more subtle form of sexism is in relationships, specifically heterosexual relationships. Sexism can cause tension in relationships because a more subtle form of it is benevolence towards men (Hart, 2013). Benevolence towards men reinforces the traditional gender roles and this causes tension in the relationship. Benevolence can be seen as good and bad. In some ways it allows the women to view men as protectors and the one that is going to take care of them and vice versa. In doing this it reinforces traditional gender roles and can have negative effects on the woman (Drury and Kaiser, Anderson: 2014,2009). It comes at the sacrifice of disempowering women and having to conform to the traditional role. It creates a hostility towards men because of existing inequalities. The hostility comes from not conforming to traditional gender roles and causes conflicting attitudes towards men because women may admire them as their protector but
From a young age people are put into categories such as; boy and girl, strong and pretty, or intelligent and nurturer. Young girls are given baby dolls to play with and take care of whereas young boys are given building blocks and race cars. I remember when I was little, I had baby dolls and stuffed animals to play with but my sister and I also enjoyed playing with race cars and building blocks. My sister and I came up with a game that we played when we were younger and we used our imaginations and pretended that we were defending the world from monsters and sorcerers or anything we could imagine. One Halloween, we decided to dress up as aliens and a lady thought we were little …show more content…
It is an issue just about any place you go such as; the workplace, relationships, and most anywhere. Sexism can be very subtle or very recognizable depending on what it is, whether it be verbal or just certain actions. In the working field, more and more women are taking up careers and also becoming breadwinners to support their families. Society expects women to take up careers like teaching or being nurses, whereas men are expected to be the businessmen in charge. There are fewer women in higher positions and this can be due to a couple different factors. Women are seen as walking wombs no matter their personal life or whether they are attached to someone (Mccall, 2016). As a woman there is the potential to have a child and have a family and the business world sees this. This reason alone can cost a woman the type of career she is going for because at any point in time she may have to leave because of having a child. This is a more pronounced way of sexism and is more obvious. A more subtle form of sexism is in relationships, specifically heterosexual relationships. Sexism can cause tension in relationships because a more subtle form of it is benevolence towards men (Hart, 2013). Benevolence towards men reinforces the traditional gender roles and this causes tension in the relationship. Benevolence can be seen as good and bad. In some ways it allows the women to view men as protectors and the one that is going to take care of them and vice versa. In doing this it reinforces traditional gender roles and can have negative effects on the woman (Drury and Kaiser, Anderson: 2014,2009). It comes at the sacrifice of disempowering women and having to conform to the traditional role. It creates a hostility towards men because of existing inequalities. The hostility comes from not conforming to traditional gender roles and causes conflicting attitudes towards men because women may admire them as their protector but