...deal with racism and sexism and they have to tolerate it if they want to keep that job but when does this behavior stop; I mean how long can this women continue to keep silent just because they want to provide for their families and if they fight back they are painted as the aggressor “saying she wanted it” but do a young woman walking an office asking for job, or even walking the office asking to be harassed about her body or been called names wanting it. In order for women to talking seriously in his century they have to act like men, be aggressive like them, make their presence by been hard which sometimes can lead to people calling her names; but as a woman of color I understand that they have no choice but to act that way because that’s the only way anybody in that office will take them seriously. With most women of color today the perception of how they see other women been treated can alter their choices in career, so sometimes they settle for career where they feel more comfortable it may not be the dream career they want, if you take a look at most fortune 500 companies almost all their CEO’s are men it rarely before you see a woman CEO in any company unless she started that company by herself and even if that comes a lot of degrading and sexism from male competitors who believes a woman and especially one from a different race can’t beat or even compete with them in that industry. My topic relate to this class because it involves the way society as a whole perceived...
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...Sexism in Workplace and its Effects on Workers Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Sexism in Workplace and its Effects on Workers Sexism refers to a kind of gender discrimination that is based on an individual’s sex. Sexism still has roots in the society and has also been reflected in the corporate sector. Though it is argued the sexism affects both women and men, the prejudice has primarily been shouldered by women. The psychology links this prejudice to gender role and other stereotypes that are constructed in our society. People have a mental perspective that one gender is superior to the other. However, this is not the case. Besides, the remarkable changes and breakthrough that have been achieved in the 21st century, sexism still dominates the workplace and have adverse effects on the workers. Some of these effects include; rape, sexual harassment, and other sexual violence activities. The idea of sexism is developed in thoughts and thus, one cannot separate sexism and psychology. The question is what sexism is as depicted in the working environment and what effects does it have on employees. The current paper looks deep into the issue of sexism in workplace and the influence that it has on employees by using empirical evidence from several researchers. According to psychology, sexism is a hostile or a negative attitude, feeling or opinion developed towards an individual or a group of people (Boysen, 2013). The attitude...
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...Running head: SEXISM IN THE MEDIA 1 Sexism in the Media Ada Anderson Chamberlain College of Nursing/DeVry SOCS 185N: Sociology Feb, 24, 2013 SEXISM IN THE MEDIA 2 Television and commercial advertising have been a dominating force for over sixty years, and people learn to specialize and are trained to create ads that entertain and provoke the viewer into buying certain products. The main purposes of commercials are to stand out from competitors, and to sell an idea or way of life for those who allow themselves to become influenced by the appeal. Women and young girls are often subjected and greatly influenced by these advertisements, and many from an adolescent age will alter and pattern their lives to partially adhere to this televised fantasy. Often, some young girls use these forms of advertisements to psychologically change their views about themselves, and thus, may have an unhealthy attitude towards their body type or status in society. I would hope to analyze the effect that commercials have upon society, and how it can create a prejudice frame of mind through subtitle symbols. Television commercials are an agent of socialization and have been used to persuade the viewer into voting for a certain president, stereotyping a certain ethnic group or race because of comical value, using sex to make a product look appealing, or learning what qualities in a beer is important. Yet, although such trivial information exists in commercials and would permeate...
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...the world is divided into two genders, and these two sexes have been a subject of definition by every known society. The culture is seen as a huge determinant to the roles that each gender will play. Therefore, sexism will be defined as a social construct that promotes the discrimination of individuals based on an individual’s gender. Sexism arises from stereotypes that define the roles of both sexes, therefore having issues when the gender roles are performed by the opposite sex. This social construct mainly affects the minority group identified as women and girls. Sexism is recognized in all aspect of life, and it’s not strange to identify it in the technology industry. The male figure has always identified its gender role as the provider. This social construct originated from the nature of man been the hunter who provided his family with their daily meal. Therefore relegating the women to the role of caretaker and this aspect has kept its hold over the society. In the 21st century, sexism has been a covert and subtle process that tries to establish an environment that is less friendly and less accessible to women. It’s clear that sexism is evident in the Silicon Valley and beyond. We also identify that the technology aspect has always been associated with male perspective. Therefore, it has become common to hear a conversation about women who have suffered sexism and sexual harassment in their digital related jobs. Women have also been identified to facilitate this occurrence...
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...The Effects of Sexism in “Boys and Girls.” The world is a place where everyone calls “home” but is it really considered a home when sexism exists everyday? When someone thinks about home, it is a place where a person can do anything without being judged or told what to do. Everyone is a human being but why is it that sexism gets to decide what a person's role is? In society, people are “labelled” to do specific tasks because of their gender. Sexism is the main social issue that should not restrict what a gender can or cannot do. There are three main effects of sexism that restricts what a gender can do or cannot do and the three effects are sexism in the work force, roles of the household, and how males and females are portrayed as. Firstly,...
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...Reducing Sexism: Equality Between Men and Woman November 2015 Introduction Reducing Sexism –Equality Between Men And Woman * #YesAllWomen! Tweets with key words like “gender” and “violence” reveal that equality between men and women is on the minds of many Americans. An inspiring 1,936,516 tweets put this subject in eighth place within the 10 social issues Americans talk the most about on Twitter (Dwyer, 2014). * Average earnings of men almost always exceed the earnings of women in the exact same occupation (Buckley, 2001). According to Statistics Canada, based on data collected from men and women aged 16 and over, men make an average of $68 500, whereas women make an average of only $45,500. Men employment rates are also significantly higher than women (Statistics Canada, 2009). * Sexual violence is a problem for college communities. The National College Women Sexual Victimization study estimates that one in five college women experience completed or attempted rape during their college years. (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000). Women have always faced significant challenges throughout their lives due to inequality between men and women. Stereotyping, lack of opportunity, pay differences, sexual harassment, gender-based violence and discrimination represent some of these challenges, which ultimately is disempowering women. This disempowerment has numerous consequences for society today. Times have changed and although unlike in the past...
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...In today’s society people are more sexist than ever. According to the first amendment men and woman are to be treated equality, but our society does not treat men and woman equal. Many situations about sexism leads to the death of men and woman, which is not the way to handle it. Sexism plays a significant role in how people live their life today. It seems unfair to me that a woman and a man with the same education and training are not rewarded the same. Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on gender. For example, in the short story “A&P” Updike explains a boy that quit his job because of a group of girls that walk in the store wearing bathing suits when his boss has rules and conventions for customers. Lengel tells Queenie and the girls "[w]e want you decently dressed when you come in here" (Updike, 233). Queenie replies with "[w]e are decent" (Updike, 233). The way Queenie thinks that decent is she at least has clothes on but the store rules require more clothes then just a bathing suit. Woman today have more attention to them then men do because of what they wear or just as little as how they look....
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...After reading the article, “When Men Experience Sexism”, (Berlatsky, 2017) I come to realize that, males are victims of sexism and gender discrimination they have disadvantages. Men are portrayed or stereotype as the strong sex, aggressive, oppressors, and sometimes seen as lazy and with no morals, and unable to care for their children. “Sexism is the cultural assumption that men are superior to women and deserve preference and power over them” (Mankiller, 1998). Sexism is an issue that has plagued society since human existence. Gender has played a role in society thinking that women belong in the kitchen and men doing the hard labor work outside, but society has changed and women have fought for many decades to achieve equality even though...
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...An Analysis of Sexism in English Language [Abstract] Language plays an important role in society. As a phenomenon of society, language reflects all the sides of human society naturally. Sexism is a phenomenon that takes a male-as-norm attitude, trivializing, insulting or rendering women invisible. As a special social phenomenon, sexism is inevitably reflected through language. To start with, the thesis traces the reasons for the occurrence of sexism in the English language. In nature, sexism in language reflects sexism in society. The two are closely related. Social connotations of sexism in English tell the relationship between phenomenon of sexism in language and essence of sexism in society. Then the thesis analyses sexism in terms of the generic masculine, word order and semantic derogation of women in greater detail. Finally, a large part of the thesis is contributed to how to change sexism in English. The author of the thesis thinks the key to the problem is: (1) solve the problem of generic pronouns; (2) neutralize lexis; (3) strive for balanced naming and addressing system; (4) coin new corresponding words. The elimination of linguistic sexism lies in social change. Only by changing the social structure, that is, women and men own really equal status, can language equality be truly achieved. [Key Words] sexism; English language; lexical neutralization; feminism 浅析英语中的性别歧视现象 [摘 要] 语言在社会中所处的地位尤为重要。作为一种社会现象的语言，必然会反映出人类社会的各种社会观念。性别歧视作为这其中的一种，是指把男性视作社会规范和中心，轻视， 侮辱女性或使她们显得微不足道。而这一特定的社会现象必然会在语言中折射出来。 ...
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...Discrimination or Inequality: The Ideal Women Body Shape When I think of how the American culture views the woman body shape as the epitome of feminity, I get a little worried. In our society and in many other cultures, women are judged according to their physical appearance. Whether it is Africa, Asia, or the United States, women psychic can make life easier or harder for them. Many women become obsessed, depressed, and compulsive about their body shape. Body dissatisfaction can lead to eating disorders and low self-esteem Research on eating disorders have been concentrated on the effects of the wafer thin western Europe and North America body types (Forbes, Doroszewicz, Card, and Adams-Curtis, 2004, pg 333). Being wafer then started between the 1940’s and 1950’s. Very slim fashion models paraded across the run ways wearing the latest fashions on display to the world. As we all know, fashion models are seen as some of the most beautiful women in the world. Thus the ideal woman body shape surfaced. Rodin, Silberstein & Striegel- Moore are just a few of the researchers who have concluded that women who achieve extreme slender body types is unhealthy and unobtainable for long period of time ((Forbes, Doroszewicz, Card, and Adams-Curtis, 2004, pg 333). I agree with Brumberg (1997) that although society has allowed women to have equal rights as men, the social expectations of all women body shape have becoming unrealistic and impossible to maintain. If a woman becomes pregnant...
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...Children learn from their parents and society the conception of "feminine" and "masculine." Much about these conceptions is not biological at all but cultural. The way we tend to think about men and women and their gender roles in society constitute the prevailing paradigm that influences out thinking. Riane Eisler points out that the prevailing paradigm makes it difficult for us to analyze properly the roles of men and women in prehistory "we have a cultural bias that we bring to the effort and that colors our decision-making processes." Sexism is the result of that bias imposed by our process of acculturation.Gender roles in Western societies have been changing rapidly in recent years, with the changes created both by evolutionary changes in society, including economic shifts which have altered the way people work and indeed which people work as more and more women enter the workforce, and by perhaps pressure brought to make changes because of the perception that the traditional social structure was inequitable. Gender relations are a part of the socialization process, the initiation given the young by society, teaching them certain values and creating in them certain behavior patterns acceptable to their social roles. These roles have been in a state of flux in American society in recent years, and men and women today can be seen as having expanded their roles in society, with women entering formerly male dominions and men finding new ways to relate to and function in the family...
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...Sex Roles DOI 10.1007/s11199-014-0418-0 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Are You Man Enough to be a Nurse? The Impact of Ambivalent Sexism and Role Congruity on Perceptions of Men and Women in Nursing Advertisements Kimberley A. Clow & Rosemary Ricciardelli & Wally J. Bartfay # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract Framed by role congruity and ambivalent sexism, the current study is designed to investigate perceptions of male and female nurses. Specifically, 167 Canadian undergraduates from Southern Ontario viewed a potential nursing recruitment advertisement (female nurse, male nurse, or masculinity emphasized male nurse), reported their perceptions of the nurse in the advertisement, and rated the appropriateness of nursing as a career for men and women. MANOVAs revealed that participants viewed the male nurses more negatively (less competent and more deviant) in the masculinity emphasized condition than the male nurse condition, which is consistent with role congruity theory. Correlations further revealed that men in the male nurse condition and women in the masculinity emphasized condition who were higher in hostile sexism were more likely to rate the depicted male nurse as deviant than their lower scoring peers. Female participants rated nursing as a more appropriate career for men than did male participants, suggesting that resistance toward male nurses may stem primarily from other men. The ambivalent sexism scores of men and women related differently in each...
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...The concept of understanding a person’s gender identity seems to be straight forward. For many, they believe it is whether they are male or female. Simply meaning they were either born with male or female sex and reproductive organs. In actuality gender identity is according to our text, “our gender identity is our psychological awareness or sense of being male or female” (Rathus, Nevid, Fichner-Rathus, 2005). In essence our gender identity is the traits or characteristics of male or female that you feel best reflect your own self-reflection. For most, gender identity corresponds with their sex assignment. To be clear a person’s sex assignment is determined by the reproductive organs they were born with. Gender identity is a separate concept however men view their gender identity as male and women tend to view theirs are female. In actuality however, gender identity can be determined or influenced by various elements. Genetics, our environment, sex hormones and even psychological factors all may play an important role in how masculine or feminine a person may view themselves. When a child is born parents have a tendency of raising them with the stereotypical characteristics of their sex assignment. A boy is encourage to get dirty, play sports or with matchbox cars or trucks. It would be considered common behavior for a boy to be “rough and tough”. Many parents would discourage a male from playing with things that are considered “girly”. Girls on the other hand...
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...Assignment All the ‘isms’ The Education of the Sexes From a very young age, we, men and women alike were programed into the expected roles of the genders. Those roles were reinforced through television, school, and experiences. Many boys received trucks and guns as gifts, while many girls received dolls and make believe ovens. We were taught boys grow up to be doctors and pilots; girls nurses and stewardesses. Boys build houses; girls keep house. Boys can become president; girls first lady. We grow up hearing phrases like men are strong; women are the weaker sex. These life experiences can lay seed to limitations to, and de-evaluation of the female gender, weather intentioned or not. Many women conformed to the prescribed role assign them. Those who do not are likely to confront prejudice in the form of sexism and chauvinism in their daily lives. The Results Sexism, also known as gender discrimination, is often in combination with male chauvinism, the belief that women are inferior to males therefore, deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit. Women should know their place. They should know that place does not include anywhere men consider their stronghold. For a woman to do so, even now in the 21st century is risky, and at times outright dangerous. Women who aspire to, or compete with the male dominated, or male stereotyped roles become vulnerable. She risks being called a man, a feminist, a lesbian, or obscene four letter words. Although these words injure emotionally...
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...Nearly every group of people has been discriminated against at some point in human history. Some of the most common forces driving this relentless continuum are racism, xenophobia, and sexism. In my opinion, sexism has been one of the least resisted and most common forms of discrimination. However, relatively recent movements have begun attempting to create equality for men and women, and have begun shifting the societal views that put women at such great disadvantages. Feminism is the belief in political, economic, and societal equality between the sexes. The name “feminism” can be extremely misleading, as the prefix “fem” implies that the movement is advocating superiority of women. As a result, the main reason resisting feminism is ignorance,...
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