My Great Aunt Grew Up From An Era

Today in society it can be agreed that women have indeed gained many rights that were not accessible to them 100 years before. Although, despite the mentality that men and women are treated equally there are still very many discrepancies between the treatment of genders. Many of which can be attributed to the expectations placed on the genders, gender roles between both genders, and women in the workplace. These issues have caused a great rift to form between the genders, a rift that has caused one gender to claim dominance over the other and this can develop a sense of inferiority by the submissive gender.

Ever since women have began stepping out of conventional roles, a wave of sexist opinions and consequently, incidents have manifested. Discrimination, although subtle at times, is easily perceived by women and often goes unreported - which is an issue in itself.

Women are objectified on a daily bases and are estimated to fit into what society deems as beautiful. Women are constantly told they are the weaker sex, and cannot and should not do what a man does. Women are constricted by gender roles; which are behaviors, expectations, and roles society places. They are behaviors that are culturally regarded as appropriate for a male or female. From these conformities comes sexism, which wants to restrict or discriminate against a person because of their biological sex or gender role. There is the belief this world is a man’s world, and women are projected to just live in it. This superiority is not only placed by men, but also fueled by other women who feel they are the weaker sex and must abide by the

Many would think someone’s gender should not define what job roles are available for them. But that is not the case in today’s society. Many women are looked down upon when it comes to certain career paths. They are told every day that men will always have an advantage over them based on the field they choose to be in. The glass ceiling theory is about how there are invisible barriers that hold back women from achieving what can be seen. (Wikipedia, 2015). For example, in 2015 only 88 women were elected to represent in the Canadian general election out of 338 (Library of parliament, 2015). Although some might

Women still earn less than men while doing the same work. Our bodies are not fully respected or under protection by law (Richardson 1,2). Although this movement has gained recognition and voices over time, there is still so much to be seen and heard. Since feminism became a worldwide known term it gained the attention from all groups of people despite gender, age, sexuality, race, and religion. Even with many different groups a large part of the movement is on the difference of women and men treatment. In the book “The New Feminism” it is stated that women’s values or the values attributed to women are different from those which ran America. This may be out of politics, ignorance, fear or conditioning. The values women have pursued are not the same as men (Komisar 109). As with gender stereotypes there are ideologies to go against one’s own gender and believe less of themselves or gender as a whole. Women are taught toward sexist ideology to discredit themselves in the labor force. They are told to believe they are solely working out of necessity or scarcity, not for the wellbeing of society or to benefit one another (121). Men and women are taught normally to discredit women as well and treat them as lesser or weaker. Phrases like “you run like a girl” or “scream like a girl” are used as signs of weakness and used to bring down the person who was targeted with said phrase. These phrases and others should not be taught as signs of weaknesses but examples of strength and

This systematic sexism dealt by women, molds their psyche, causing them to accept this repression as commonplace and normal. Until recently, very few women have taken initiative to question this unfair treatment. Personally, I found it intriguing how women who had the ambition to challenge the system were rebuffed because their views were deemed as frivolous. This made me wonder if this hindered women’s motivation to disrupt the status quo, and continue their fight for their rights to voice their opinions.

The sex discrimination act covers everything under the topics of payroll inequality, sexual harassment , and prejudiced acts towards women (Verkaik, PP.1). Jenny Watson, the Equal Opportunities Commission chairman had said “Some issues, like unequal pay and sexual harassment, remain far too common”. (Verkaik, PP.1) Meaning that 30 years later, and women still face the same problems. A lot of women are complaining about sexual harassment. In fact, 50% of women say that they have been sexually harassed while working.(Verkaik, PP.1) In a 7 month period, from April to November, there has been 647 reported calls of sexaul harassment. The crazy thing about that stat, is that 647 people only add up to fourth most popular complaint, trailing pregnancy, work-life balance, and equal pay.(Verkaik,pp.2) Even the women who fought for their country, were getting harassed. ⅕ of women who are in the navy, and ⅛ of the women in the army were getting sexually harassed. (Verkaik, PP.2) It’s amazing to think that the person fighting in battle with another is also the same person that is getting sexually harassed. In addition to women facing discrimination for over 30 years, some businesses continue to discriminate women even after they had been brought to

Feminists had to overcome many hurdles in order to achieve a higher status in society, and although they did succeed in many of their efforts, sexism nevertheless remains a prominent concern.

Feminist harassment and restrictive gender roles still exist. "Gender role differentiation is not bad, the problem arises when differentiation turns into stereotype. That is when for no good cause women are barred from playing certain roles for reasons of their gender and not for lack of skill to execute their task" (Irefin, 2012, p. 19). Although, the feminism fight continues, specific limitations still occur such as gaps in wages, viewpoints on domesticated role, expectations in marriage, violence occurrence, and women's rights over her body.

Feminism has had a tremendous result on women’s roles in society and in their everyday life. After a while, women got sick of living a strict lifestyle. They became tired of staying caged in their houses, cooking, and cleaning, and not being able to do what they truly wanted and so desired. So, they decided that they wanted this no more and needed to do something to put a stop to this and make change. What they really wanted was equality between men and women and wanted the same opportunities that men were getting. For a numerous amount of years, women have strived and struggled with great determination for gaining equality with men. They have been held back and their opportunities have been taken away from them because of the fact that

Men and women have very different expectations and roles in the work force. In the past almost all corporations have discriminated against gender, especially women. Whether it is women not being allowed certain positions and/or promotions at a job, or women not being allowed into the field of work that they desire at all. Women have also been discriminated by being payed lower wage and made to work longer hours in unsafe and unhealthy work environments. Gender roles set expectations that are extremely incorrect. A woman is just as capable at any job that a man is and should not be discriminated against because of her gender.

Women in the United States have faced many inequalities between their families, employment, education, and politics. As a woman myself, I have seen the changes in how women are treated in today’s time, but there are some things that still have to be changed. A good amount of men have said before that women should be treated unequally due to their feminine aspects about themselves. Women are believed to be unqualified to take upon the position of a man in the workplace, there has to be a change in how the word gender is represented in the workplace. Women are the ones who bare children and create a better future for them when they are born, why have them treated differently for being who they are as a person and show it to the world how different they are. They have faced these inequalities with the men for many years and have challenged each action with a victory for themselves. Earning a lower pay has made women fight for their right for equal pay. It took a great effort for women to be able to attend classes as men also went to school. Women have been faced with the battles of equality with men for many years. .

I have chosen gender equality as my social movement. “Gender equality or sexual equality is achieved when women and men enjoy the same rights and opportunities across all sectors of society” (Sheppard, 2016). Therefore, as a woman, I feel discrimination is still alive and kicking. Therefore, what woman trying to set out in their career phase of their life would not be interested in being treated fairly. So, the most interesting part is even today some male figures still think that it is their place to make decisions on a woman’s behalf, thus devaluing woman of their human rights. Even though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was established to eliminate discrimination based on gender, race, color. Again, gender discrimination is still going on. For instance, just the other day where I work we interviewed a few candidates for a position and the Human Resource manager wanted to hire this colored male person with no experience in the field over a woman who met all the qualifications. The HR manger stated he wanted more racial diversity and felt a man would do a better job in that position. I merely agree we need more diversity in the workplace, but hiring for that reason is just not right. Even though today there are many women who are CEO’s, like Indra Nooyi, of the Pepsi Co. And Mary Barra who improved GMC’s reputation I still find it interesting that there are many companies where men still

In my grandparents’ era, many people were having hard times with their financial and social support for the families because they had to deal with an invasion of the Japan from 1910 through 1945 and they had been experienced the family lost during the Korean War. Many people survived from the hardships in these situations so that they could give better environments for the future generations. My grandparents were meeting each other during the Japanese invasion era during the 1930s because they did not have choices to listen to their parents in the future. Therefore, my grandparents got married each other and had many kids in the later. Also, my grandparents found the partners from the different families in that time so that they could get married in happy lives. In Korean Society, marriage arrangement between two families became trends so that they could listen to their parents and have kids to live in the society. My grandparents and parents era, they were thought that finding the partner or their children is very important to have a secure family life. However, most of the young people are postpone their marriage because they have a hard time to find jobs to prepare for a marriage.

We're in the 21st century and still women are being harassed, are not receiving equal pay, same leadership opportunities, treatment in the workplace, and other equal rights that women should have. We've been through many movements including the Women’s Suffrage March in 2017, which was a peaceful protest in which both women and men came out to support each other after the election, and protested about their personal rights as women. We haven't progressed much except for more people speaking up about this. It's basically mild segregation based on gender.