Sexism In Australia

Western women have traditionally been perceived as the inferior sex, or the domestic partner, subjected wholly to the private sphere, and stripped of legal rights and standing. Meanwhile, men are depicted as the breadwinner, the strong, masculine and dominant partner, who belongs primarily to the public sphere. These historic gender norms have been deeply imbedded within Australia’s social foundation, and although society has gradually shifted away from these roles, evidence suggests that this gender inequality still riddles the modern day workplace. Liberal feminist groups have embraced this issue, and have classified it as being a true barrier to achieving the ultimate gender equality goal. Consequently, these liberal feminists along

Sexism’s a problem that has been around for centuries, therefore Anna Goldsworthy took hold of the dissatisfaction and combined it into her Quarterly Essay “Sex, Freedom, and Misogyny”. By this essay, most audiences begin to understand the meaning for Misogyny and clearly presume the differences between Sexism and Misogyny along with the conflict against women rights. The essay wasn’t babbled, perfectly structured aiming directly at audiences from all gender who are in their teens and into middle aged. Goldsworthy fought contrary to her bias who are the supporters of Misogynist by indicating them out in a smooth tone to inform the situation that females handle around the world. By using Gillard’s speech delivered in Canberra in October

To quote Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, an influential modern feminist, in her song ‘Flawless’ she defines a feminist as “a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes”

Australian families have experienced many significant changes over the past 6 decades. These changes consequently resulted in equality of opportunities, and conditions for women in the labour force. Along with the willingness of most men to become voluntarily involved in core household work, as well as taking on a greater role with respect to childcare. This essay will discuss two significant changes in gender roles, and will examine some of the positive and negative impacts it had on Australian society over the past six decades. On the one hand, Australian federal and state governments passed several new laws and legislations which resulted in an increased participation by women in the labour force. These legislative changes provide many

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.

Living in Canada like we do today, we don’t see sexism as a big problem in society. Women get roughly the same rights as men, and are treated the same way for the most part, but in many different countries, this is not the case. Take Saudi Arabia for example. Saudi Arabia is rated 127/136 in the world for countries with best women's rights, meaning they are one of the worst in the world. In Saudi Arabia, many laws are in place that may seem crazy to us, but are a way of living for people living there. Let’s take a look at women’s rights in Saudi Arabia!

The workplace discrimination against women is one aspect that Australian legal systems have achieved the responsiveness for society and individuals. The legal system provides women with a formal and enforceable means of redress to correct discrimination. The legal systems have implemented many laws to diminish women workplace discrimination. There are three main laws that the legal system have achieved justice for society and individuals, the laws are Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (CWTH), Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) Equal Opportunity laws and The Affirmative action plan Act 1989 (CWLTH). Assessing Positives and negatives to the responsiveness of the legal system that Australian parliament have made or passed.

‘Women produce children; women are mothers and wives; women do the cooking, cleaning, sewing and washing; they take care of men and are subordinate to male authority; they are largely excluded from high-status occupations and from positions of power.’ (Haralambous and Holborn 1995, Sociology Themes and Perspectives, HarperCollins Publishers) These stereotypes have come from our past and have now become quite frequently used in today’s society. Women have been seen as the maintainers of the household while the men go out to work and earn a living. “When our ancient ancestors switched to hunting as a way of life, the relationship between males and females was dramatically

One of many examples, an under representation of woman in institution of power, a misogyny, is that of Australia’s first woman Prime Minister Julia Gillard. In the course of her employment, the prime minister was harassed just because she was a woman, in ways that that did not apply to her male colleagues. She was a victim of gruesome and mean comments, and much of this abuse came via email and social media. She was vilified and denigrated by the Federal Opposition, the Media and by many ordinary citizens. She was not even accorded the respect of being addressed by her last name, especially in the media. No other previous ministers were subjected to this disrespect. These virulent attacks on her questioned her integrity and had a huge impact

"It's the politics of fear and division and, Ms Hanson, you are incredibly good at it."

While studying art and popular culture in class, our class came across a very interesting topic and story. Throughout time everything has changed in humanity, in the way that humans look at one another. Now in the 1980’s when the whole AIDS and HIV epidemic started that’s when the whole world saw the disgrace in each other. Now in class learning about the disgrace that women had upon the world because of HIV and AIDS has really changed in a way that women are not allowed to be free within themselves anymore. The woman of today have to deal with sexism, classism and even racism just in order to survive in this world. But even through all of this women are still strong and fight for what they believe in and never give up, no matter what

The Australian culture is to value independence as well as equality in gender expectations. There are no clear gender-role expectations regarding independence and Australia does not have a feminine or masculine dominated culture. Women and men are allocated traditional gender roles within Australian society, which is to act out the masculine or feminine behaviours as constructed by the Australian culture. Femininity is associated with traits such as compliant, cooperative, forgiving, intuitive and understanding. Masculinity in generally associated with traits such as assertive, decisive, egocentric, logical and practical. The Australian culture is one of person-oriented families, which are families which value equal power

The article I read was You’re Sexist. And So Am I from USA Today. This article went into discussing how everyone has internalized sexism, believing in sexism in their head, whether they like to believe it or not. This is because society teaches people norms that women must follow in order for them to be respected. As we have discussed in class, this is the idea of subjectivity because all of these social codes are predetermined and that makes them very difficult to change. One example of this was in the article when it talked about how women often chose their careers around them someday becoming mothers. Women are expected to have children and then take time off from work to raise their children. No one believes that men should be expected to stay at home and raise children because it is not the societal norm. Therefore when a woman chooses a career around impending motherhood, she is falling into subjectivity.

Julia Gillard was Australia’s 27th Prime Minister and the first woman to ever take on this role in the history of Australia. She was prime minister from 2010 to 2013. Throughout her prime ministership years, Gillard was challenged for her leadership role from a gender perspective. For this reason, her speech debates the notion of misogyny, sexism and the idea that ‘women are being under-represented in institutions of power in Australia’ (Sydney Morning Herald 2012). Her aim was to recognise the rights and roles of women in all public and private spheres of

It is argued that Julia Gillard’s ‘misogyny speech’, delivered before Parliament on the 9th of October 2012, was the result of systematic gender bias present in the Australian psyche. The ‘misogyny speech’ was launched against the then Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, highlighting sexist and misogynistic observations the leader had made in the past. Since the second-wave feminist movement of the 1970s, renowned commentators have discussed the negative contrast between the depiction of men and women in the public sphere. Examining the representation of women in politics, combined with their negative portrayal in the media, it is clear gender inequality is thriving.