Gender-neutral pronoun

The pay gap isn’t expected to close for another one hundred years! It is a well-known fact that women make seventy nine cents to a male’s dollar. The gap increases for women of color. This show that this problem is more than a gender issue. The problem is relevant as far as ethnicity also. Even with increased education females still in this country will not be able to close the pay gap as easily as they think. This pay gap resides in nearly every occupation available. The pay…

Muschieka Muschett The “D” Word There are many instances where I have felt discriminated against. Also, being a female minority, I believe we are more susceptible to being judged due to the “double factor” of being a woman and black. African Americans and women have always had to fight for equal rights and even today the fight continues. African Americans fight to be equal and not judged by the color of their skin. Meanwhile, women fight for equality and to not be judged by…

Women in India are finally slowly taking steps into the workforce. “Employment is critical for poverty reduction and for enhancing women’s status” (Srivastave, 49) However there are many little things that have stopped them in the past and still may be stopping them from going out and getting a job. Key factor being society and how society portrays you when you have a job compared to when you are housewife. As India progresses that old mentality is getting lost and more women are being allowed…

that even over one hundred years later, that some people would still look down upon those who fight for gender equality. It’s no question that a lot has changed in America over the last one hundred years; one of which, being the advancements in women 's rights. Women have moved up from being politically…

The Wage Gap Epidemic Would it not be great if you could automatically make 23 percent more than everybody else? It would be fantastic, would it not? Too bad that is not true, just like the gender wage gap. There has been a huge misconception about the gender wage gap. Saying women only make 77 cents per dollar that a man makes is an unfair statement that is a hindrance to society. This misconception could lead to unfair and even unconstitutional laws against men in the workplace. If you are a…

Since our country was first established women have been thought less of. Viewed as the weaker sex, they did not have the same privileges that men had throughout the centuries. For many years women had no choice but to be stay at home moms. Taking care of the kids, cleaning the house, and cooking was a woman’s day to day job. Then, the industrial revolution came and changed everything. Women began to work in factories and had a source of income. Soon women got the right to vote and the equality…

Gender identity formation is the process we follow because of dominant norms that influence us to act, speak and perform a certain way that will benefit us within our society (Lei, 2003). The term gender performativity created by a post-structuralist philosopher named Judith Butler suggests that we are not born with a specified gender, yet she believes we are born with a specific sex that has socially constructed assumptions attached to it. The actual term gender performativity believes we can…

The topic that I am interest in is how genders are treated different in certain religion. This topic can be find in chapter eleven on page 276 in the textbook called “Religion in Sociological Perspective” by Keith A. Roberts and David Yamane, the textbook is the 6th edition. In this topic I will talk about how a men and a women is treated different and not as equal in different religion. The two religion I will be talking about is Christianity and Buddhism. The reason why I pick this topic is…

Reflection Paper My views of gender, gender roles, and gender equality have definitely been impacted by my life experiences. For example, I used to believe that gender only referred to male and female. Now, I believe gender refers to a spectrum. It ranges from female to male and anything in between. I also never realized how many gender roles were involved in my family while I was growing up. They definitely made me know them. It is also frightening to know that even kids have gender roles. I am…

College: a stretch of time characterized by rivers of shitty beer, clouds of skunk smelling smoke, and sexual tension that heats up rooms. Amidst all of these antics students are free to do as they please, not accountable for their actions or held to responsibilities. Living in this bubble called college, generally at an age of development and maturation, has many effects on who people are. Specifically, college is a time for ‘finding yourself,’ or defining who you are and how you feel about who…