Christopher Germino
ETH/125

Diversity Organizations Paper
The status of women in United States history, The serious studies of women written by amateur women scholars were ignored by the male-dominated history profession until the 1960s, when the first breakthroughs came. The field of women's history exploded dramatically after 1970, along with the growth of the new social history and the acceptance of women into graduate programs in history departments. An important development is to integrate women into the history of race and slavery. A pioneer effort was Deborah Gray White's 'Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985), which helped to open up analysis of race, slavery, abolitionism and feminism, as well as resistance, power, and activism, and themes of violence, sexualities, and the body. A major trend in recent years has been to emphasize a global perspective.

The status of women in United States today, women in the U.S. have made big advances in every field. Yet discrimination still exists. Doing "A Man's Job" As women have gradually become leaders in the professions — in medicine, law, and business, for example — they also have taken jobs once regarded as too physically strenuous. Women have become sanitation workers, police officers, fire fighters, and coal miners.
Some examples of concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity in society and media are, a man or a woman in our society is not just defined by the biological traits someone possesses, but it is also defined by what is expected that a man or a woman should act like in our society, which has been socially constructed and fed to us beginning at a very young age. This construction, of femininity, or masculinity normally begins with the color of our clothing. Traditionally, pink is for girls, blue is for boys. Growing up, as children we are