Throughout my pre-undergraduate career, I attended a single sex private school from pre-kindergardin to the twelfth grade. Since the age of five years old, the mindset that my gender would not hinder me from anything that I try to accomplish in life was drilled into my mind on a daily basis. Not until I arrived to college did I realize that so many other women and men had a completely different mindset than me. Some of these people thought that women should be in traditional stereotypical gender roles, while other women believed that they could not preform certain occupational roles as well as men because they were not a man. When I asked an individual why they thought this way, they responded by saying that “men are better in these roles,
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Men are perceived to have the more dominant roles, while women are practically given the submissive roles to adapt to. However, the decrease of patriarchy has lead to the large increase of women in powerful positions instead of their previously structured roles that were surrounded by starting a family and downgrading or leaving their careers. Since the 1980s, the influx of women in the workforce have filled eighty percent of the new jobs that were restructured from manufacturing to the service industry in the past century. More women have furthered their education, but even with this advancement they are still paid less even the with same education and work experience as their male co-worked. Even with the many strides that women have take in the past century, there is still a very long road until full equality among men and women. I think that my pre-undergraduate career and this course has really taught me to not settle for a job that society deems my gender is capable of doing. Women, in general, have come an extremely long why by fighting gender stereotypes and perceived gender roles. Even though minority women, like myself, are still statistically speaking, still going to make less money than our white male and female counterparts, the gap is slowing closing as more women and women of color are penetrating the professional
Men are perceived to have the more dominant roles, while women are practically given the submissive roles to adapt to. However, the decrease of patriarchy has lead to the large increase of women in powerful positions instead of their previously structured roles that were surrounded by starting a family and downgrading or leaving their careers. Since the 1980s, the influx of women in the workforce have filled eighty percent of the new jobs that were restructured from manufacturing to the service industry in the past century. More women have furthered their education, but even with this advancement they are still paid less even the with same education and work experience as their male co-worked. Even with the many strides that women have take in the past century, there is still a very long road until full equality among men and women. I think that my pre-undergraduate career and this course has really taught me to not settle for a job that society deems my gender is capable of doing. Women, in general, have come an extremely long why by fighting gender stereotypes and perceived gender roles. Even though minority women, like myself, are still statistically speaking, still going to make less money than our white male and female counterparts, the gap is slowing closing as more women and women of color are penetrating the professional