Sexism And Discrimination Against Women

Sexism is the unequal treatment between sexes, more so the attitudes and beliefs about people based on their sex and is more prominent amongst women. It is the failure to give equal weight to women’s interests and is important because it undermines the welfare of one-half of the human population.

Sexism is prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, commonly towards women, on the basis of their sex. Sexism is still present in today’s society, especially against women. There are many ways as to how people are sexist towards women. The three places that sexism against women is a big issue: the media, pop culture and the sports industry. Some people do not allow women the same opportunities that men have just because they are women. By creating sexism in these places, people are treating women unfairly and with disrespect. The stereotypes that are created by women paints a certain image of women that people believe to be true. The media is especially known for creating unrealistic images of women.

When discussing injustices, it is pivotal--for the sake of true progressive social change--to include all oppressed groups into the dialogue. Transgender People tend to be heavily misrepresented and demonized. Because of transphobia, there

Women first gained the right to vote on August 26, 1920 with the 19th amendment was approved, giving women full voting rights. Fortified by the constitutional victory in 1920, the handful of new women in Congress embarked on what would become a century-long journey to broaden women’s role in government. In the intervening years, the drive for more women’s rights encompassed the lives of the next generations of women. Even today, women are still fighting for their rights and stand up against prejudice. On the forefront of this movement are our women congresswomen who speak on behalf of all women. When Hillary Clinton announced her presidential candidacy, controversial questions immediately surfaced about the role of gender in politics. Through Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2008 and 2016, media is the principal propagator in showing bias and sexism.

The author of this article, Brynn Tannehill, very clearly supports the transgender movement. In repeated statements, Tannehill speaks of injustice toward those who are suffering from gender dysphoria whose only effective treatment (gender transition) is being taken from them in the Family Research Council’s attempt to “legislate transgender people out of existence by making the legal, medical, and social climate too hostile for anyone to transition in” by proposing a five step plan (spelled out in the article).

Sexism, is a prejudice plain and simple. One of the earliest forms of violence directed toward women was the Witch Hunt Trials of the Middle Ages. Bishops debated whether a woman was really human at all. If her nose were too long, she had red hair, a humped back, or if she was exceptionally beautiful, she was thought to be a witch and was burned at the stake. There was an estimated nine million women burned during the Witch Trials. During the “Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1960’s, feminist theorists explained that oppression of women was widespread in nearly all human society, and spoke of sexism instead of male chauvinism. Male chauvinists were usually individual men who expressed the belief that they were superior to women” (Napikoski). By the mid 20th century sexism was established and began to appear in advertising. Between the 1970’s and 1990’s women began to feel more equal to men until the 1980’s where they were portrayed as sex symbols on national television (The Origin and History of SEXISM). There are two main types of sexism, benevolent and hostile, and their definitions are opposite from one another. Hostile sexism is what most people perceive as sexism today as it seems sexism is occurring more and more often and is, notably, more vulgar. It is the notion that women are inferior or not as worthy; a belief that males are intrinsically superior. For many years women have been degraded and looked down upon with the idea that their place is in the kitchen with

Throughout history, sexism has went from being one of the most undiscussed topic to being one of the most diverse, controversial topics in the United States. Sexism can be described as “Unfair treatment of people because of their sex; especially; unfair treatment to women” (Merriam- Webster). Thesis

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.

In Virginia Woolf’s speech Professions for Women, the author tackles the issue of sexism and women’s liberation. Woolf is delivering a speech at the Women’s Service League in 1931 and describes the limitations that sexism presents to women.

Today, so many people feel the need to be someone that others want them to be and not what they actually want to be. People often accept the position into which they are born and grow up in, and then pass that position onto their children. Until someone has enough power to speak out against it, this cycle will continue. This is true in both Girl by Jamaica Kincaid and A&P by John Updike. Both of these stories examine sexism and the need to fulfill a certain roll that society places upon women. In Girl, Kincaid brings up the issues of females needing to conform to be a certain person and provides her audience with a specific set of rules that women should follow when alone and with other men. Overall, Kincaid and Updike are attempting to portray the strong division of genders and the need to fit a certain role within society today.

When thinking about institutionalized discrimination one form that come to the forefront of my mind is sexism against women, primarily in the workplace. Sullivan stated that “males are physically stronger than women and free of the responsibility of bearing and nursing children” (2016,p 210). This is absolutely true and understandably however, these should not be factors when you compare the work a women vs a man can provide.

No matter how far back we look in the history, we can say that women suffered sexism from the very beginning.

From the beginning of time the male and female have been expected to perform certain roles in society. Males have been expected to work and provide for their family while the female raises the children, cooks, cleans and keeps the house in order. Today many women have broken that tradition and are starting their careers and becoming more independent. Even though females today are braking away from that stereotype, they are being discriminated in the work place because there are still individuals out there that believe that women should play a certain role and that they are not strong enough to work in a cooperation or

If you want to get a job, and have your salary based on the effort and skill you provide your employer, not whether you have a uterus, you should care about gender equality. If you want to have access to opportunities, and be able to reach your full potential, regardless of whether your chromosomes read XX or XY, you should care about gender equality. Should people be seen as less valuable than others because of a small difference in their biology, because of something that they cannot change?

Gender discrimination against women is out of control across the world and seeps into many aspects of women 's lives. This discrimination harms women in two ways. First, women directly experience stressful events. The experience of sexism is so common that some research suggests women can experience one to two instances of everyday sexism. But women aren 't only harmed by sexism through the physical stress caused by others. They are harmed to the extent that they internalize and adopt these sexist attitudes that can manifest as poor self-concept. This negative self-concept often obvious on a subconscious level, as women and men will demonstrate automatic negative biases against women (Ferguson, 2013).