Before entering our seminar class, I saw gender as the stereotypical family with the father always working and the mother taking care of the kids and cleaning the house. The father would never be able to take care or play with his own children and the mother would always take care of her husband’s needs. The mother would never be able to go out and enjoy her life because there would always be something that needed to be taken care of. Women have been overlooked for so long in this world. The amount of skills and knowledge that have been wasted because males look down on women because they are only seen as caregivers and servants to them. Men want to be taken care of by women, and because of this opinion, women’s talents have been lost over
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As said in Judith Lorber’s article, “The Social Construction of Gender”, “Gender is so much the routine ground of everyday activities that questioning it’s taken-for-granted assumptions and presuppositions is like thinking about whether the sun will come up.” (Lorber 142) Lorber explains that gender is our basic building block in our lives and we do not even realize it. We assume that gender is just a simple aspect in everyday lives when in reality, it truly is not. Many people form the opinion that gender is just the cliché male and female relationship when really, there is a deeper meaning to the definition. Also stated in Lorber’s article, “As part of a stratification system that ranks these statuses unequally, gender is a major building block in the social structures built on these unequal statues.” (Lorber 143) Many people in our society today cannot grab at the concept of gender equality and how important it is to be in a society that should be gender neutral. In order for our society to work, males need to accept the fact that they are not the only ones doing the hard work. Women are now stepping into those shoes and doing as good as a job as they are. Women have the power to work in an office or be the boss of a big
As said in Judith Lorber’s article, “The Social Construction of Gender”, “Gender is so much the routine ground of everyday activities that questioning it’s taken-for-granted assumptions and presuppositions is like thinking about whether the sun will come up.” (Lorber 142) Lorber explains that gender is our basic building block in our lives and we do not even realize it. We assume that gender is just a simple aspect in everyday lives when in reality, it truly is not. Many people form the opinion that gender is just the cliché male and female relationship when really, there is a deeper meaning to the definition. Also stated in Lorber’s article, “As part of a stratification system that ranks these statuses unequally, gender is a major building block in the social structures built on these unequal statues.” (Lorber 143) Many people in our society today cannot grab at the concept of gender equality and how important it is to be in a society that should be gender neutral. In order for our society to work, males need to accept the fact that they are not the only ones doing the hard work. Women are now stepping into those shoes and doing as good as a job as they are. Women have the power to work in an office or be the boss of a big