The Bionic Woman

We were tasked with reading four different articles about workforce diversity. The focus of each of these articles was the role that women play in creating diversity in the workforce. The first article “How to Get More Women into the Workforce” started off by stating that the baby boomer generation is nearing retirement age. Once consequence of this is that the number of job openings will reach record highs. Currently, the workforce participation rate is 62%, which is the lowest it’s been since…

Throughout the early years of America’s growth, society, along with the typical American family, consisted entirely of patriarchal power. Men were believed to be smarter, stronger, and therefore, superior to women. However, the concept of female sexuality, often referred to as female power, is introduced within W. Scott Poole’s expository text Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting along with Alfred J. Hitchcock’s classic film Psycho. While both W. Scott…

because the paper itself is not only about the body but of the actual person and the treatment women receive due to their superior male counterparts. She uses a dark pathos that bring about a sympathetic view to women. In one instance she refers to a woman as a body, not a person, when she states that “the basic Female Body comes with the following accessories” (Atwood), in which she then starts reciting common feminine items that are a associated with the sex. In all of the examples she gives…

mother neglecting his rearing, Vidal develops a lack of purpose. In addition, the deformity that causes him to have four nipples further alienates him from normalcy. Owing to this abnormality, Vidal begins his life with a prophecy claiming that a woman will be responsible for his death. Naturally, the prognosis produces a sense of paranoia in Vidal, provoking his choice to isolate himself from…

The Suppression of the Female The Museum of Ancient and Modern Art indicates that archaeological evidence as early as the prehistoric and early historic periods of human development, believed the supreme creator to be female. The Museum of Ancient and Modern Art expresses, “Little has been written about the female deities who were worshiped in the most ancient periods of human existence and still today, the material there is has been almost totally ignored.” (M.A.M.A.) It is clear that the role…

of Latin American marianismo and she was attached to Bayardo, Angela was “doing machine embroidery” and “had made cloth tulips and paper birds” (93). The cloth tulips personifies the fakeness that she is portraying in the gender roles because as a woman they are cherished for being a wife, care-taker, and an admirable mother. From the beginning to the end of the novel Marquez displays Angela’s making of artificial flowers and cloth tulips to emphasize that there will always be double standards…

falling for Sara, a woman that resists his so-called guaranteed-to-work techniques. Through the romance and comedic actions of both couples, gender ideology…

of finding one are slim. No one is going to want to hire someone who cannot work long hours or they could go into labor, which will cause them to miss work for a long time. At this point it would three times as hard to find a job being a pregnant woman and an illegal immigrant. For now, América will have to stick with Cándido until their lives become both emotionally and financially…

One book, The Only Woman in the Room, focused on not only the author’s individual experiences within the realm of physics academia, but also on other individual’s experiences and how they were affected by their mentor’s encouragement, or lack thereof, as well as familial and peer encouragement (Pollack 2015). Eileen Pollack, author of The Only Woman in the Room, says that her abandonment of physics and her goal to graduate school…

Eliminating Race and Gender in the Fight for Equal Rights in Sojourner Truth’s, “Ar’nt I a Woman” and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s, “The Slave Mother” By applying the theory of Feminist Criticism to Sojourner Truth’s, “Ar’nt I a Woman” and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s, “The Slave Mother” one can identify several ways both poets are able to claim their authority over the language in their texts to expose the illogical reasoning of the antagonists -- those supporting the patriarchal state. By…