The Power Of Power In Hidden Figures

“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). This quote is said by Chimamanda Adichie and it deals with how we have the power to change culture into a more just society for women. Power is a very important aspect in a society and it determines who is going to be more superior. Power produces domination and therefore it creates and destroys. In the movie Hidden Figures, it deals with how cultural ideologies of male dominance are practiced in a society that leads to discrimination and women injustice. Black women in the movie are shown as minorities that are not privileged or treated equal to men. It …show more content…
The environment brings the fact that women had to choose one of these options and they were judged if they picked the workplace because they are picking money over their family. Culture teaches women they don’t belong in an environment that is completely dominated by men, in a mathematics and engineers field. The workplace gives these women a sense of power because they are earning money and they don’t have to depend on men. In the book-----, it mentions that usually the person in the household that brings money to the house is usually the one in power in t because they are financially providing money in the house. In the workplace they also faced unfairly treated because of the obstacles for example, with the bathroom when Katherine Goble didn’t have easy access and she had to spend half an hour walking across each time she needed to use the bathroom. There is a lack of easy access to necessities in the workplace. Another example is when Katherine was given the dirty coffee mug and no one would share it with her because of her race this shows how black women were treated like inhuman and filthy. They faced injustice in the workplace because they weren’t provided with basic human rights, and they were judged for picking work over their home. Women are drawn into support and services type of jobs related in large measures to domestic work. They are in jobs that are wife-mother roles that serve the …show more content…
Power is given to men to control the environment, law, and the physical appearance of women. Men have an impact on environment because he denies basic human rights in the workplace and they are usually bossing women around therefore women are given jobs that deal with motherly jobs. The law is usually run by men and women aren’t given high platforms to change the law, therefore the law doesn’t support women, in fact it advances male domination. Last but not last physical appearance is controlled by men and them telling women what to wear in the workplace and in public which is inherited from culture. As a result, culture furthers the domination of men in society over women by giving more