Gender Stereotypes Affecting Gender Ideologies

Gender refers to the socially constructed categories of feminine and masculine. It is one of the major factors in social difference and inequality in today’s society. Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. It arises from differences in socially constructed gender roles. Using a paragraph based approach I intend to individually analyse various aspects of gender differences referencing to the theory of socialisation and also making links to the works of Marx, Durkham and Goffman. My essay will cover different aspects of gender inequalities still present in today’s contemporary society.

Whether it is on TV or movie screens, the faces of white actors and actresses have always been prevalent in the media. For generations, many teenagers have been exposed to countless movies with white people in major roles. Moreover, the few roles that are cast to minorities feature the characters in their stereotypical personas (Bonilla-Silva 179). Even in advertising, Asians are placed in business settings, upholding the hard-working Asian stereotype (Taylor and Stern 50). As Taylor and Stern mention in their paper, the “model minority” has made the issue of stereotyping seem less important for Asians. The majority of these actors that are examined, regardless of race, are typically middle-age and well established in their acting careers. However, there is a lack of research behind Asian youth acting and their perceived roles. To account for this knowledge deficit, I examine how whiteness influences the media to portray youth actors as individuals that stray from their stereotypes in an attempt to achieve whiteness. My research site centres around Fresh Off the Boat (FOB), a comedic television series featuring a Taiwanese family. The title of the show Fresh Off the Boat or “FOB” is also a term used to describe a person that is considered too ethnic and as a term of denigration. I utilize Pyke and Dang’s categorization of “FOB” and “whitewashed” to analyze the narrator, Eddie Huang. I chose to limit my research primarily to the first “pilot” episode where the audience is

Gender roles have played a major part in society. According to the book “The Psyche of Feminism” “A gender role is a theoretical construct in the social sciences that refers to a set of social and behavioral norms that are considered to be socially appropriate

This books focuses on things that influence gender roles such as Sociological Perspectives, Social Stratification , Sex and Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Nationality, Poverty and Social Exclusion , Crime and Deviance, Religion , Families and Households, Power, Politics and the State, Work, Unemployment and Leisure, Organisations and Bureaucracy, Education, Culture and Identity and Methodology.

Taking on feminist principles means reconstructing personal relations as well as public life, and this offers endless opportunities for hurt, mistaken judgments, and mistrust. Indeed, it is often easier to acknowledge women 's rights to fair and equal treatment in the public world than to confront sexism at the personal level. This is the response of some powerful men in the professions, in bureaucracies, in universities and in politics--liberal Democrats in the United States, Labor or Social Democratic leaders in countries like Australia and Sweden. Such men may find it easy to support equal opportunity and anti-discrimination programs, which correspond with their own agendas for efficiency and modernity. They are less likely to change the

One can see that gender is actually a social label that is produced from social expectations (Ore 99). These "gender norms" have led to the distinct inequality and oppression of women. Due to these norms, women are seen as incapable of being political or rational because their social duty is to stay at home and take care of the children (Glenn 23). The social creation of gender surely undermines the severe communal disadvantages that females take on. Humanity must forget these general notions that have been brainwashed into every day life.

Today societies are still very much plagued by gender inequalities that are detrimental to future societies. If the purpose of a democratic government is to uphold the principles of equal opportunity, then public policies that seek to reduce and eventually obliterate any role of gender in society are necessary. In working to achieve such justice, gender inequality within the family needs to be addressed, gender roles need to be broken down, and public policies that assume no social differentiation of the sexes need to be adopted.

According to feminists the socialisation process functioning in the family and away encouraged females to accept the traditional gender roles which rooted female difficulty in the private domestic sphere and in the public sphere of employment and political and social life. Nevertheless, because these gender roles were socially constructed rather than biologically strongminded they could be changed by various political and economic strategies and the improvements in female educational and employment opportunities which happened from the 1980s forwards welcomed as indications of reduced gender inequality and not as flying in the face of human nature as was implied in biologically based arguments. (sociology tutorials, 2016)

Children television shows are a crucial source for a child’s identity building especially in regard to their gender role. Research on gender roles of media characters has been plentiful, and has often shown that characters in gender roles stay relatively true to gender stereotypes (Collins, 2011; Gerding & Signorielli, 2014). Therefore to add to the research in a productive manner, this analysis will differ itself from previous studies by specifically comparing the changes in gender roles in a long standing children show. While only a few children shows have withstand the text of time such as Sesame Street (4256 episodes) and the Smurfs (421 episodes) have only been a handful, it is no question that their role in the cultural

On August 26,1920, the 19th Amendment,which guaranteed women the right to vote, was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution

People's conceptions of masculinity and femininity, ideas concerning the fairness of differential treatment  or expectations of women and men, internalized schema that evoke different judgments of women's and men's actions, rules about proper male and female behavior applied to children – all these and more concern the influence of ideology on gender identities, differential treatment of women and men, and the organization and persistence of gender

What proposal can be done to alter the views of the multimedia towards it viewers? I propose a more direct step for one hiring a more diverse staff of these magazine corporations that models the actual face of America. Another would be to bring the relevance of the clearly unsaid problem in the fashion industry. Yes, it is an industry based off looks but I believe it poses a problem when the beauty is characterized as only one specific look. This is damaging in that to the public for instance young women who glorify the media and models themselves off what s seen as right they will lose self identity and will not recognize their own beauty. This leads to many alterations and is one of the reasons why plastic surgery and cosmetics is a booming industry .In 2011 alone America wasted 10.4 billion dollars on cosmetic surgery (Dicker).

The author's premise is that men and women are able to do whatever they want in this country. Their premise allegedly justifies his reason for women and men not being treated differently in society due to gender. Besides the fact that the author's premise is extremely vague, it definitely does not warrant the conclusion. Just because both genders have the capability and governmental right to do what they want does not mean both genders do not receive different treatment. The premise ignores the fact that 19th amendment, involving the women's right to vote, had to be passed because the difference in treatment towards women and men. That is a major and historical difference in treatment due to gender in our society. Women's suffrage was able

Gender inequality is a social problem that is widespread in society. It is referred to as the unfair treatment of individuals based on one 's gender. Historically, laws have opposed women to go to school, access certain jobs, and purchase property. Gender inequality has been experience through culture – honor-killing, sex-selective abortion, and society – occupation, gender roles, and education. The social expectations of men and women differ between cultures that are constructed socially and culturally. These expectations are displayed in roles, and behavior believed both by men and women and their interdependent relationships. Gender inequality can be further understood through the structure of sexism. Discrimination takes place in gender inequality for the reason that men and women are treated on the basis of gender alone (Amjad, R., Ashfaq, M., Kousar, R., Saghir, A., 2010).

It is only recently that sociology has begun to explore the topic of gender. Before this, inequalities within society were based primarily on factors such as social class and status. This paper will discuss gender itself: what makes us who we are and how we are represented. It will also explore discrimination towards women throughout history, focusing mainly on women and the right to vote, inequalities between males and females in the work place and how gender is represented in the media.