Gender Stereotypes: The Literacy Rate In The United States

An expecting couple awaits to discover the gender of their baby. The nurse announces that it’s a girl. The couple is extremely excited, but do they truly grasp the weight of what this implies? Gender is not simply a physical trait, as it affects nearly every aspect of a person’s life. Stereotypes repress the potential in all men and women. The same stereotypes are found throughout literature such as Medea by Euripides, Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, “Sonnets” by Shakespeare, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Frederick Waterman’s “The Best Man Wins”. A common thread between these pieces is that power can be gained by those who are suppressed by defying gender stereotypes and social hierarchies.

I have chosen to focus this paper on the portrayal of gender stereotypes and expectations as seen in the book Ethan Frome written by author Edith Wharton. Before I proceed with this topic, allow me to highlight the ingenious writing style of the author and her subtle discussion of unhappiness, which opened the door to adultery in the marriages of both Wharton and her main character in the book Ethan Frome.

A sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Sports originated in early history as males only, and was often used to see which male was more dominant. In today’s society sports have a different meaning and is played by both genders, but still holds a mentality of superiority. In this essay, I will be arguing the Social Constructs of Masculinity in Sports in the language and the actions used when performing these activities through both genders and how some actions are acceptable for one gender and not for the other. Using Laurel Richardson’s article Gender Stereotyping in the English Language, and X: A Fabulous Child’s Story by Lois Gould. The article and story will help distinguish the use of words in our society and how they are incorporated in sport and how the actions of a person that does not fit the social standard faces repercussions for their actions.

#1. After reading chapter one of the text book the thing that I came away with that surprised me the most was the information about the races listed on the United States Census survey. Even though I have filled out two of them in my nearly 40 years of life it never clicked that there were so few options to pick from. Working with the public has me interacting with people of innumerable racial backgrounds; for example, in a few years when the 2020 Census goes out to the, for example, numerous Indian-American (India born not American Indians) who frequent my place of business will have to select from, as the book says: “The US Census Bureau identifies five races: White, Black, Asian, American Indian, or Native Hawaiian” (Diversity and the College

Teachers must have a full understanding of their student’s cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds in order to become socially conscious of the power relations among their students. In order for teachers to learn to lose their own biases, I will host after school teacher trainings where I will facilitate discussions about race and class. This is important because according to author Gilda Ochoa, if teachers hold on to cultural assumptions they run the risk of sending racialized messages to their students, who then internalize them (Ochoa 165). In her book, Academic Profiling, she provides examples of how students pick up on such messages. For instance April Lee, reveals how she is aware of her teachers’ expectations of Asian Americans when she states, “When a teacher looks at you and your face, [they think,] “oh, you’re Asian.” She must be really smart, or she must be really good at math” (Ochoa 165). These stereotyped messages or “ideological assaults” often translate into the differential ways teachers treat their students and is known to create resentment in the students treated inferiorly (Ochoa 172). Clearly, in order for

Whether it is watching a show on the television at home, or being outside in the real world, it is pretty self explanatory that every person wants to feel represented and supported, felt like they are noticed or acknowledged in today’s society. No one wants to feel as if they are an outcast or are inferior to someone or some group. Lately, there have been cases of certain groups of people being excluded from TV. Specifically, African American women. Is this really just a coincidence, or is something going on? Does TV really represent the diversity of Americans yet? It is evident that TV is not that diverse, but should be more diverse because people should be integrated with each other instead of separated, it forms stereotypes, and because

The way people look at gender has changed quickly over the past few years. Gender has always been a social topic on what boys should do and what girls should do. The new generation of young adults seem to break the mold of gender stereotypes with effortless ease. I have seen many classmates and many schools changing the status quo of gender within the last few years. My generation has a different opinion on gender stereotypes than my grandparents and even my parents. Gender stereotypes are rapidly changing with each generation, whether it be through sports or the occupations people have.

Imagine, a world where you cannot vote, hold a job, or even walk down the street without another person’s permission? That is what it would have been like, if you were born as a female around the early 1900’s. Flash forward almost a century later and women are still in a struggle with the opposite sex in todays’ society. Women for decades have battled for equal rights. But will we ever get there? Probably not, but I certainly would like to think so. Fair and equal wages, the opportunity for job advancement, affordable childcare, and abortion rights. These are just a few in a long list of rights that we as women have been pushing for since the very beginning.

The United States of America has taken great strides to shrink the gap between African Americans and white Americans, but have they taken the same measures in regards to gender equality? Women worked tirelessly for suffrage in 1913 and since then have made an effort to become equivalent with men; however in recent years, there has been a pushback from the radical conservatives to put women back “in the kitchen.” For centuries, women have been placed into these caregiving roles in which they are to be seen and not heard – always being dominated by the men they have been told to cook and clean for. Even now, in our Congress, women are being put down for standing up for this “great cause,” a cause that wouldn’t exist if people were all treated

This study examined how female college students dressing professionally affected their test scores in traditionally male-dominated subject areas such as science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). There is an existing stereotype threat against women in these subject areas, which is defined as the risk of fulfilling a negative stereotype about a characteristic that one holds about his or her own group (Steele & Aronson, 1995). The stereotype threat that affects females in STEM classes assumes that females are inferior to males in STEM courses which can lead to unequal test scores between females and males of equal intelligence. Data was collected from female students at UTC by having half of the participants dress professionally and

The Globe and Mail, APTN, and Windspeaker use different evidence in their reports, which shapes audience interpretation of the events. The Globe and Mail often references Conservative politicians, especially Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, occasionally mentioning other politicians such as Dalton McGuinty, Liberal Premier of Ontario at the time (Galloway, 2012a; Galloway & Moore, 2013; Galloway, 2013). It also often presents comments from prominent Canadian First Nations chiefs. Similarly, Windspeaker references the actions and speeches of prominent Canadian chiefs and politicians; however, they quote a greater diversity of chiefs and present information about politicians in the Conservative party as well as

Overall, this course has helped me learn a lot about gender and how much people are stereotyped. Specifically, I learned the difference between all of the gender types that there are. To be honest, I did not know that there were so many gender types, therefore, it is nice to know all of them and how to differentiate between them. Furthermore, through this course, I learned that the media creates more of an impact on how people perceive themselves than I initially thought. I thought that people could choose whether or not media influences them, yet this is not necessarily the case. Media is everywhere and at some point in our life we compare ourselves to the people displayed through the media.

In ancient society, women were caregivers. They were to marry at the age of 14, and care for their husband and children. Women were told to act a certain way, watch what they eat, never talk back to men, and be a lady. You would think that opinions would change and people of the modern society would look at women as equally as men. However, it is almost a nature of all living things to look to men for leadership and women for dinner and clean laundry. I think it’s unfair how gender specific stereotypes play such a massive part in our lives. Boys are always raised to be leaders and business owners, while girls are raised to be proper ladies; only for the purpose of marriage.

Braden seated in the corner of the classroom most of the class time. During one activity he got up of his seat and joined two 6th graders boys to answer questions on a race using their iPads. His team won the race, and then he went back to his seat and stayed there while the rest of the students were moving around during the presentations and activities.

Gender stereotyping sets standards for men and women across America, this being true for the past few hundred years. It is not secret that women are said to be most useful in the kitchen, and that men are to be found somewhere doing hard work, being the bread winner. Also, in the way we allow our young children to be identified; blue means it’s a boy, pink means it’s a girl. As times change, so does society and its mentality as a whole. Some stereotypes have been more difficult to break than others, those stereotypes are still present today. It is not fair that women are found limited in the work place and men are becoming so protective of their masculinity. Gender stereotyping is a problem in America today because it creates gender-bias boundaries and early gender schema development, but these relevant struggles have led to recent accomplishments, especially in the media, through highlighting genders as equally capable of any job.