I agree with your point of view on this topic. It should not matter what gender you are or what racial background you come from. I believe that we live in a world now that wants to please everyone, and prove that there is no discrimination being done, but then you are basically being discriminated against if you are not a women or of a minority race. I think the fear that you will be accused of being unfair and discriminating has a lot of companies worried, so they make up a number quota so that no one feels offended.But what about someone who has tremendous work ethic and a very qualified work background, who applies for a job and yet is looked over because they are not a minority race? Like your work place, race and gender should be left
Throughout my life experience, I have gained skills that have guided me to pursue a graduate degree in Communication Science. I strongly believe being goal-oriented, self-motivated, and a critical thinker leads me to this challenging but rewarding career. In addition, having compassion, respecting others, being consisted, and having interpersonal skills will help motivate my potential classmates. Although I posses these essential skills, I believe overall consistency plays an important role in my life choices.
Social Inequality; as defined by sociologists is the unequal opportunities of different social statuses and positions within a group of individuals or in society. The opportunities we receive, our wealth, our rewards, and our punishments, can all be influenced because of our positions we hold in society today. Remember the saying “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer”, why is this? It’s all because of inequality, there is no fairness when it comes to opportunities, employment, housing, etc. and it is in fact evident. After reading the article, “Race and Gender Discrimination, Contemporary Trends” there were many trends that I would of liked to discuss in my reflection, however the two trends that I found to be importantly associated with social inequality is the percentage of people who deny racial discrimination against people of color and the belief that blacks and whites have the same standard of living.
In the mid-1900’s, in the American South, discrimination based on both race and gender was blatantly recognized as socially appropriate, and the attitudes of majority factions with such norms in mind were reflected in numerous instances of public policy. One of such instances was a public policy which enabled a Woolsworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, to forbid people of color from sitting at the store’s lunch counter. In response to the oppressive nature of this policy, four black students ignored the rule which restricted them—an act of civil disobedience which was erupting all over the region—and took seats at the forbidden lunch counter, demanding to be served. Such instances, labeled ‘sit ins,’ were often recognized as illegal behavior and were treated as such by local law enforcement, who arrested those who resisted their oppression. When questioned during a televised debate as to how he could advocate for citizens of a society to break the law, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. responded with a statement which echoed the demands for justice across the world, a statement to which he was sure that his opponent would have to agree: that “an unjust law is no law at all.”
According to article 16, “Race and Gender Discrimination Contemporary trends,” Sterba expresses how women are asked if they were harassed or not in their work force. In pink collar jobs to blue collar jobs. Women get sexually harassed in a lot of jobs. For example, the author states, “According to the National Law Journal, 64 percent of women in pink-collar jobs reported being sexually harassed and 60 percent of 3,000 women lawyers at 250 top law firms said that they had been harassed at some point in their careers” (Sterba, 125). The video “Killing us Softly 4,” Killbourne states, “It also does something even more insidious. It creates a climate in which there is a widespread violence against women” (Killbourne, 2:13-219). She was stating
Because of the economic, social, and political challenges, many African American have to confront adversities that rarely happen to people of other races. Racial segregation exists in many areas, including in the housing, healthcare, educational, and employment sectors. If one’s race is being prejudiced, women in that race are suffering from a double prejudice, both racism and sexism. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, my friend Tiana is an African American graduated from New York University (NYU) with a major in Gender and Sexuality Studies in 2012. Since she was a child, Tiana had suffered from racial and gender discrimination for many years in many respects, such as education, shopping, and medical care. Growing up in a disadvantaged
Discrimination has been prevalent throughout American history. This can be presented through the civil rights and women suffrage movements. The process to establish laws to advocate rights for people of color or women, has been a slow and painful struggle. The national government eventually made laws to prevent social injustice and to expand equality. Nonetheless, the relationship between race and gender has created a racial gap in socio-economic status. Skin color still matters in 21st Century America.
The Great Depression was the big economic crisis in the 1930’s. People lost their homes, their jobs, and their dignity. Not until the middle of the 1950’s did the stock market return to pre-depression levels. During this unfortunate time people hunted for good paying jobs, but were unable to find them. To this day class in this country is under scrutiny. The middle-class is vanishing before our eyes as the poverty level increases and the wealthiest class becomes larger. Not only was there great inequality in the U.S. during the great depression, but also there was still very strong dislikes toward anyone of color. Racism in this country is still prominent today along with class inequality.
Racial discrimination and sexism are types of discrimination. Racial discrimination is a notion that race is the first or most significant of human qualities and abilities and that racial differences produce a built-in (quality of being better than everything else) of a particular subspecies. Sexism is detrimental, pre-decided wicked opinions, behavior, conditions, or attitudes that help develop prejudiced mental pictures of social roles based on gender. There are multiple differences between racial discrimination and sexism. How should we understand the difference between racial discrimination and sexism?
Discrimination. We all hear different stories about it. Some of us may have even already experienced it. But what does discrimination really mean? Who are the people affected by it? According to Merriam Webster, discrimination is the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people. Many people think discrimination is all about race and class, but many forget that it is about gender too. Now, do not just think about it as sex, being male or a female depending on biological features in the human body. Gender, according to the World Health Organization, “refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a society considers appropriate for men and women.”
First, every man, woman, and child should receive the same rights. None of these rights should be affected by skin tone, gender, religion, sexuality, or ethnicity. All citizens are eligible to obtain property, no matter their title or skin tone. Every person of the United States has freedom of speech, religion, and freedom of the press. If a citizen wishes to speak their mind on politics, or religion, they may do so without being prosecuted. Women receive the same wages as men and are eligible for any job offered. A woman works just as hard as a man and therefore should earn as much as he does. Secondly, women control their bodies, and others have no opinions in what they do. Discrimination upon minorities will not be tolerated and
Gender bias, also known as sexism, is a full of attitudes, laws, taboos, preferences, and behaviors that differentiates and discriminates against either sex. These may be a position of which male dominance and female subjugation in the modern society. It could also be a form of sexual stereotypes between men and women, these are commonly experienced in employment versus other positions. A final place that discrimination is faced is the academic environment, the female to male ratios are not in sync in certain programs and courses because of this and it is pressuring men and women to not go into certain fields and do what they love and please. Most advertisements on Television, magazines, newspapers, online ad’s, use a charged sexually image with a female as the star. Women are to be a pleasure for men, and nothing else. Many people have different opinions on genders and sexuality and that is okay, but sometimes you just need to keep them to yourselves.
For many decades now it has been said that there has been inequality in the workplace, it has been a major issue in the workplace in terms of women not being allowed to have certain jobs as well as in terms of women not being promoted within the workplace which all contributes to women being paid less than men. According to Ryan and Branscombe (2013), gender discrimination has been defined as the "differential treatment members of one group receive compared to another" by many social psychologists. It has been said that in 2007 the Office for National Statistics (2013) says that the medium hourly pay between men and women as the lowest since regards began being a gap of 12.5%. This review will discuss the reasons for inequality and if it still exists.
I have read a book written by Darlene E. Clover, which named Global Perspectives in Environmental Adult Education: Justice, Sustainability, and Transformation. This book outlines theories and practices in environmental adult education that are emerging worldwide. The need for environmental adult education arises not from a deficit platform of andlaquo; lack of awareness and andlaquo; individual behavior modification-but rather from the asset belief in an existing - if sometimes hidden - ecological knowledge of the need for a deeper sociopolitical, race, and gender analysis of environmental problems, and the power and potential of democratic participation and collective action. Authors from Canada, the Philippines, Kenya, India, Mexico,
Our social justice issue is gender discrimination. Gender Discrimination is a major thing going on in our world today. Therefore, gender discrimination happens in things such as sports, education, health, employment, laws, and in different countries. Gender discrimination was a major thing in the past, and is still a major thing today. Men continually think women are weak, and so women are targeted more in crimes. They also think that women won't stand up for themselves, and women continually let men bring them down because they aren't brave enough. In jobs they believe women won't work, and that women aren't capable enough to do the job, so women end up getting paid less or have to work ridiculously short hours. Today in our century, women are targeted more than men because they are considered weak. Being labeled weak makes women are more vulnerable to at least one form of abuse. 1 in 3 women are abused in some form at a time of their life by a man. Women are targeted for crimes, such as home break-ins, because if they live on their own, they are thought to not be able to defend themselves that well. Women are also being killed all the time. In India, women are burned to death if they can't meet financial requirements, while men aren't. In Egypt, women are killed if they do something considered unclean in their family or outside their family. In South Asia more than 2 million baby girls are killed or abandoned to die because they are considered a financial burden to the
Men and women experience many types of discrimination throughout the workplace, women experience it more than men do. I will be discussing how gender can dictate the way people view you in the workplace. Women are seen as more sensitive and emotional when making decisions, while men are seen as more focused and competitive when making decisions. Gender discrimination affects the workplace by creating tension and conflicts throughout the workplace, there’s a big wage gap between men and women and women don’t get the same opportunity as men.