“Do not be so bossy.” “Do not wear that to school you are going to distract the boys.” “Why are you being so emotional?” Throughout a woman’s lifetime she will hear these indirect sexist comments at least once. Society integrates the roles men and women must go through at the start of birth. When a baby is delivered into this world and the sex is announced it carries with it a lifetime subscription to limited gender roles that are going to decide the way a child will be regarded and brought up in society. At the start of a young age, boys are given sports gear, toy cars, and action figures. Girls, on the other hand, are encouraged to play with Barbie dolls, princess castles and miniature kitchen sets. Both men and women get compelled to appropriate
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This demonstrates how society hold principles to a certain sex and the stereotype that influence their perception of the world around them when it comes to gender. In Helen Shen’s article “Inequality Quantified: Mind the Gender Gap,” she discusses a personal experience one of her colleagues had when entering the field of engineering. In the beginning of the class the professor openly stated, “‘I see women in the classroom. I don’t believe women have any business in engineering, and I’m going to personally see to it that you all fail’.” (21) This is just a small example of the restricted gender role women face in a male dominated work field. Even though it is the 21st century women still are not paid equal to men even though both sexes are working the same job. Shen additionally argues that, “In the European Union, female scientists earned on average between 25% and 40% less than male scientists.” (22) This is just for a scientific field even in areas where women are the primarily more dominated sex than men in the work field, men still make more than …show more content…
(ask how to cite more than three people) explains sexual objectification as “women in Western cultures are often sexually objectified in the media and interpersonal interactions as well as reduced to a body, or body parts, available for satisfying the sexual needs and desires of other people (rather than a person with thoughts, feelings, desires, and needs.”(432) In (ask how to cite more than 3 authors) research they talk about how, “This dehumanized social perception may have detrimental consequences on attitudes and behaviors toward women, including sexual coercion, assault, and violence.” (432) In the mind of society, if a woman dresses sexily then she is asking to be be called such crude words such as a whore or slut and degraded to a sexual object. While on the other hand, if a man walks around shirtless in public or wears a speedo at the beach he is not degraded to such standards as women are. Such hypercritical views are the reason why women are seen as nothing more than a walking sexual body who has no feelings. The outcome of the revolting way society causes violent harassments, sexually or verbally, and is then blamed on the woman for the way she dressed or acted. This constricted and degrading gender role women have in society is making them seem less like an actual human being with thoughts and emotions and
This demonstrates how society hold principles to a certain sex and the stereotype that influence their perception of the world around them when it comes to gender. In Helen Shen’s article “Inequality Quantified: Mind the Gender Gap,” she discusses a personal experience one of her colleagues had when entering the field of engineering. In the beginning of the class the professor openly stated, “‘I see women in the classroom. I don’t believe women have any business in engineering, and I’m going to personally see to it that you all fail’.” (21) This is just a small example of the restricted gender role women face in a male dominated work field. Even though it is the 21st century women still are not paid equal to men even though both sexes are working the same job. Shen additionally argues that, “In the European Union, female scientists earned on average between 25% and 40% less than male scientists.” (22) This is just for a scientific field even in areas where women are the primarily more dominated sex than men in the work field, men still make more than …show more content…
(ask how to cite more than three people) explains sexual objectification as “women in Western cultures are often sexually objectified in the media and interpersonal interactions as well as reduced to a body, or body parts, available for satisfying the sexual needs and desires of other people (rather than a person with thoughts, feelings, desires, and needs.”(432) In (ask how to cite more than 3 authors) research they talk about how, “This dehumanized social perception may have detrimental consequences on attitudes and behaviors toward women, including sexual coercion, assault, and violence.” (432) In the mind of society, if a woman dresses sexily then she is asking to be be called such crude words such as a whore or slut and degraded to a sexual object. While on the other hand, if a man walks around shirtless in public or wears a speedo at the beach he is not degraded to such standards as women are. Such hypercritical views are the reason why women are seen as nothing more than a walking sexual body who has no feelings. The outcome of the revolting way society causes violent harassments, sexually or verbally, and is then blamed on the woman for the way she dressed or acted. This constricted and degrading gender role women have in society is making them seem less like an actual human being with thoughts and emotions and