Male Dominated Society Essay

Vijay Tendulkar’s Kamala: A Critique of The Male - Dominated Society Talluri Mathew Bhaskar Lecturer in English A.P.R.J.College Tendulkar successfully brings out the ugly cultural deformity of our society through his plays. He depicts gender deformity in Kamala, political deformity in Ghashiram Kotwal , physical deformity in Sakharam Binder, mental deformity in Encounter in Umbugland and Kanyadan and spiritual deformity in The Vultures --Manchi Sarath Babu Abstract: Exploitation and oppression are the characteristic features of Indian society for centuries. Tendulkar’s plays illustrate, more or less, how women are exploited in various ways. The inhuman treatment that they receive from the male-dominated society indicates…

Male Dominated Society In the two stories, The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner there are two separate characters in the stories and they are kind of alike when it comes to the way that they deal with a male dominated society. In A Rose For Emily, Emily’s father dies and she does not confess this to the townspeople for a numerous amount of days, leading them to believe that she just does not want to let go of him because that is the only person she is…

is due to the fact that there are a variety of factors that can drive an individual to select a certain occupation. In male and female dominated occupations the salaries differ which relates to the concept of occupational segregation based on gender. This all becomes evident when looking at a male dominated profession, such as mechanical engineering with only 8.8% women, a female dominated profession, such as preschool teachers and kindergarten teachers with 97.2% women and a gender neutral…

Male dominance in American history has been very common among society. For many centuries males were always considered to be the “leader” of the household. Females had depended on the welfare of their husband. Women were restricted in many ways and the rights women had compared to the men were nowhere near equal. With males being the “leaders” of the household, women were often isolated at home because their husbands did not want them out of the house. Glaspell wrote a play called “Trifles”…

The first event that exemplifies the male dominated society Maria lives in is when she tells her boyfriend, Juan, that she is expecting their first child. Although there is no real love in their relationship, Juan offers Maria to marry him and have her move in with his family, but Maria refuses. According to DeVito, “in a highly masculine culture, men are valued for their aggressiveness, material success, and strength.” (P. 37). Juan’s aggressiveness is portrayed when Maria offers him to move in…

struggles all her life for happiness but fails at every stage. She represents all the Indian women who starved for self-identity and a proper place in the society. The novel explores the idea that though India achieved freedom, Indian women are still struggling for their own independence. The fight for female autonomy and separate identity is still in the process. If a woman tries to go beyond her boundaries, she is cast away from the society. She becomes alienated from her own family. It is sad…

and women in nontraditional careers. In our society, certain jobs have been seen as male-identified and others as female-identified. Historically, men were expected to undertake the more physically demanding and hazardous activities to fend for…

disadvantage is the wage gap that seems to persist in different fields dominated either by males or females no…

Introduction We live in a world that lacks understanding regarding gender binaries. Concepts surround gender binaries such as values, beliefs and attitudes from culture to culture. Gender binaries create categorization and regularization of men and women biologically as masculinity and femininity. Sex is a biological characteristic that distinguishes male and female (which is determined by our physical body) while gender is socially constructed and a cultural meaning. Gender is experienced…

A Government like, the United States, chose a democracy-based government based on its various citizens’ cultures and beliefs. This form of ruling allows its citizen to have various freedoms from things they do not wish to partake. However, not all countries are like this, there are some that force the nation into a religion and base nearly all their laws on that religion’s rules. This type of government is referred to as a Theocracy. One such government is the one in Pakistan. This Theocracy’s…