Sexism In The Workplace Reflection

During the winter months I work at a hockey arena, more specially, the concession stand. I have worked there for five years and have never seen a female working as one of the facility operators in the arena. The job involves making sure the building is operational, maintain the compressor and pumps along with anything else that needs to be in done so that the building is kept in working order. I chose this activity in particular to see the implications and consequences along with the reactions from others by doing a stereotypically male job. What I learned from working there was that it was a very physically demanding job. In society women are expected to execute jobs that do not consist of hands on, manual labour. Even though physical strength …show more content…
From the look on the strangers face, I do not believe he had ever been confronted before. Since people do not speak up about small moments of sexism in casual conversation, this is one reason why sexism still exists. If people do not tell other people why what they said was insensitive, that person is just going to continue saying things like that because they perhaps are not aware of what it is implying. There are a lot of reasons for this and for the conversation I had, after he had realized how it was slightly sexist he was quick to explain to me that it was just a joke and supposed to be taken …show more content…
I found that though gender bias in predominately male fields of work still exists, the attitudes are much more subtle and non-confrontational. There was only one instance of me not being able to do something because I was women compared to before when there would be many such as women not even allowed to work outside of the home. The reactions I received from others were slightly different from the ones I was expecting to receive which shows me how far society has come but also that there needs to be some more work to be done and since I experienced these things first hand I know what parts needs to be emphasized more than others. It also has made me realize my privilege because there are people who have to endure much more discrimination on an everyday basic compared to me because I was simply trying it out for a day and there are people who have to deal with it