Reflection Of Women's Aspects Of Privilege In Society

One of the privilege I can somehow relate to is that female benefit is having the capacity to choose not to have a kid. I disagree with that one hundred percent because I don’t think women really have the right of choosing if they want to have a child or not if they’re married, due to the fact that the husband should have a say on whether he wants the child or not. I don’t think the women should make the decision without her partner. Unless if she has been raped or some other traumatic event then I can say she make her decision on having the child or not. Another female privilege is that the women don’t really have to take their career seriously they can depend on marrying someone that can make more money than them. I disagree with that due

Based on the evidence supplied by author Kent Anderson Leslie, slaves in antebellum Georgia did not always live under the oppressive system of chattel labor. According to Leslie, the rules that applied to racial hierarchy were not strictly enforced, especially when it came to propertied and wealthy planters such as David Dickson who chose to raise his mixed-race daughter at home. Amanda Dickson’s experiences during Reconstruction demonstrate that she had much more freedom after slavery was abolished than may have been expected before the Civil War. Amanda Dickson’s experiences and those of her mother in particular do not fit the presumed mold of oppressed slave with no opportunity for a better life.

An alumni group, Check Your Privilege organized by Dr. Ja’Nina Walker, works to raise student and faculty awareness about privilege on a San Francisco campus and increase social equality. The group defines privilege as “unearned access to social power based on membership in a dominant social group.” The group desires to increase consciousness about privilege, especially in the among social justice influences. They work to bring privilege into regular public discussion and urge those with privilege to use it for public benefit.

Due to the time period, one is raised in there are certain things that are considered to be the norm. In the late 1900’s women had no voice to speak out or give any of their opinions regarding any matters. In those types of society’s, the women are oppressed because the males were dominant. Edna Pontellier from The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Janie Crawford from Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston are two women who are oppressed in the society they are brought up in.

The town that I lived in was majority black, but most of the wealth was found in the white community. As a person with white skin, I was automatically given a higher status socially and several other privileges, such as growing up in a culture that expected me to achieve academically and therefore have the ability to leave the town. For people of other skin colors, that was not an expectation, and there were many roadblocks to their success, such as poor education and a high crime rate where they lived. It wasn’t until college where I read about oppression, that I began to understand that not confronting the privileges I received from my skin color is part of the problem, a way of maintaining meritocracy. As a woman, I am also the oppressed. I have to ensure that I do not achieve or succeed too much or else I will threaten men, and run the risk of not finding a husband some day. Should I find a husband, I will likely be expected to prioritize family over my career, something not as expected from my husband. My mother stayed at home with us our entire lives, and I often feel the expectation that I will do the

What is privilege? Is it something that one is born with, or is it something that one earns as a token of an achievement? In other words, is privilege something that falls under the category of essentialism or constructionism? Depending on who you ask, the answer to this question will vary. For example, if this question is asked to a white person, their sociocultural and economic advantages as well as their inexperience with systemic racism will influence them to respond with the belief that privilege falls under constructionism. However, if the same question is presented to a minority, the hardships that they might have faced as a result of the color of their skin will lead them to answer that privilege stems from an essentialist doctrine. Thus, in order to understand the concept of privilege, one must learn the three principles of privilege, maintain an open mind so as not to fall into the trap of describing something as “natural” and accept the ideology that racism is alive in our society today.

Women and minorities experience oppression both similarly and differently. To start, gender identity is the root of socially assigned male and female roles in society. From the moment an individual is born he or she is treated in accordance to their gender identity. A child’s name, clothing type, group of friends friends, and family roles are decided based off of a gender basis. As he or she enters the working world, his or her pay scales, professions, work environments, and public restrooms are based on whether the individual is male or female, as well. Sex categorization is a basis for assigning individuals to adult roles in society. Gender may be the most basic category of diversity simply because gender roles are identified and enacted

It is time to talk about privilege, and what I consider it is. Privilege is a special treatment a person or a group of people can receive. These privileges can be seen in every cultures and social levels, such as in work, in private clubs, schools, universities, religions, among other things. For example: I lived in Peru and in that country, there is a well-known private club called ‘Regatas’. Until a few years ago the only people that had the privilege of being a member of that club were men. Luckily, things change, now both genders can become members, but it took one hundred years to make that change.

Privilege is an uncomfortable thing to talk about, plain and simple. No one seems to think about what privileges they do have without being prompted to do so. Everyone is focused on the privileges that they do not have because they do not want to claim to have more privilege than someone else. I do believe that we should focus on what we do have, rather than what we do not have, and make the world a better place by helping those who do not have the privileges that we do. In this paper, I will be discussing the first times that I realized that there was race, class, and gender.

Throughout history, women have been unsure about where they stand in history. However, women may have had a stronger role than what they realize. Many people could tell you important Greeks, Romans or even early English folks; however, a great majority of these people were men. Although men have taken credit throughout history, women have been holding together our society without the fame, praises or glory. In 2015, it is evident that all people should be equal in a society because women and men are both equally intelligent, morals now indicate that women are equal and should be treated with respect, and they are obviously needed within a population.

Through extensive secondary research using the internet to gather information, I have gained a broader level of knowledge on a number of struggles that women around the world continue to face today. The extent of oppression that women are subjected to varies depending on the their ethnicity, culture, religion, socioeconomic status and geographical location. Each of these factors will determine the quality of life that women will have in a particular society.

The consequence of civilization has enlightened to why in history women has witnessed a loss of freedom, hence her position. The transformation of women’s position in the society replaces the men at a higher position in the society. Arguably, the root of oppression lies in the hands of patriarchy, capitalism, and the state, in which resulted a sexist society as “the male has become a state and turned this into the dominant culture (Ocalan, 2016).” However, referring back to the women enslavement, women’s biological difference is used as an explanation for its enslavement role within the society, often degrading women work as ‘worthless.’ The appear of women in the community is controlled by men which indicates that women slavery is built on

The definition of gender roles is a set of societal norms dictating what types of behavior is generally considered acceptable based on the gender of a person. Additionally, if you don’t seem to accept this standard, there can be huge consequences. For example, in India, women are viewed as a burden and a “extra mouth to feed.” Her status promotes the idea that men can treat them in a subdued manner. If they don’t comply to these requirements, then a woman is murdered by her husband or his family by being set alight by a flammable liquid, which is usually known as bride burning. Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, also uncovers the harsh inequality of women. Gender roles shouldn’t be real and they were forced on us by society.

In pre-Islamic societies, women were held in high regards as matriarchal communities widely existed. Their biology, with its ability to reproduce, enabled women to be worshipped for they were the principle of creating life; this fact opposed androcentric theories that state how the “nature” of women dictated a status of inferiority (Ahmed 11). However, as many scholars and theorists have noted, “the decline” of women’s status in pre-Islamic societies was likely from urbanization. As warfare increased from city-states expanding their territories, warrior culture generated male dominance, and the reproductive capacity of women were looked to for providing labor power, making them be seen as “property” (Ahmed 12). In many instances, the rise of urban societies negatively affected women as Leila Ahmed stated in “Women and Gender in Islam” and as demonstrated in late Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian cultures. The complexities of these civilizations produced military competitiveness, escalating the aspects of male dominance and classes that further demeaned women (Ahmed 12). However, the rise of Islam rectified the unjust social constructs as women were given more independence, being considered equals and companions to men.

As we are all birth equally throughout the world, there is still contingency that causes a barrier between human kinds. What barriers are we talking about that can’t be changed through our DNA? That is our gender. When each of us are born into the world, we are labeled as male or female due to our genetical DNA and different types of organs (WHO). Yet, society still isn’t as balance enough and there are still so much discrimination in gender in even today’s society.