Doing Gender West And Zimmerman Analysis

Through everyday interactions we display gender identity. In the article, “Doing Gender”, West and Zimmerman claim that gender is through everyday interactions. After reading this article, I realized that I display my gender and gender identity in my everyday life through various social, cultural, and political contexts. Firstly, throughout generations social standards are constantly changing. In my experience, I find that most standards are displayed on social media. The other day, I was scrolling on Twitter and discovered a picture that depicted how society wants women to become into a specific category. For example, women are usually shown to be wearing a lot of makeup and being “caked” just to make themselves look like a pretty woman. …show more content…
When I finally got my first job, I worked really hard and had a great experience. I work as a waitress in a sushi restaurant and I had many pretty coworkers. I recently realized that my workplace only hired base on gender and looks. I find it offensive because I brought in two of my best friends to work and one was male and the other was female, my manager chose the female just because she was a pretty woman who had a nice figure that can be "sold" so we can gain more customers. I can tell that my managers only hire the prettiest woman because everyone at my workplace was a pretty girl. I find it offensive because us woman are only being hired because we can be "sold" as a pretty object to look at rather than our strength and expriences. Also, In this generation, there are many classes that people catergorize base on genders, especially looking at the different dominant fields. For example, going into university I have met many people and heard a variety of stories about their classes. My friend was in nursing and told me that there were only 2 guys in the nursing field, while in her engineering class, it was the opposite. Listening to her stories made me realize that there are many dominant fields that either woman or men took over. For example, woman are considered as the soft and caring type while men are considered as the strong and working hard type. Overall, the political standards has barely changed according to our gender identity, in my everyday life, i can see that men are always considered the dominant and stronger being. In conclusion, throughout my everyday experiences, I can see the gender identity through interactions with others and through my own experiences with the view of the social, cultural, and political standards. I believe that gender identity should not be base on the standards but rather stand up to our identiy and make a