The Common Ideology Of Powerful Men In America

Martin Luther King Jr. once said “our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” However, I will not be silent. Sexism is a thing of the past, present, and future. Women have never been seen as equal to men. This idea and concept affect how women carry out their lives. Women may act different or speak different just based on society's thoughts about their gender. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and in today’s society it is clear that because of women’s perceived “weakness”, men now dominate women legally, physically and financially.

Inequality between different groups of people within the United States is concerning for many sociologists and society in general. One of the main inequalities throughout the United States is gender inequality. Gender inequity is found in all past and present societies. It takes the form of patriarchy. From the patriarchal point of view, gender inequality can be traced back to biological differences in early societies (“Steven Goldberg on Patriarchy” 2006). This inequality is present in society through many different forms, including job segregation, the gender pay gap, and a great difference in women’s political representation (Joan Acker, 1989).

When the Founding Fathers brashly declared that all men are created equal in the United States Declaration of Independence, they conveniently forgot to include the word “women” in that statement. In my own pursuit of happiness I have been oppressed on a myriad of occasions due to my gender. As a female in the United States Army, I have been told by my male counterparts that I should be in the kitchen rather than in the field. I have been denied access to branches in the military that are said to be unfit for females to serve in, and I have watched as male soldiers rank up both faster and higher than female soldiers. Being a woman in today’s society means unequal pay, sexism, and overall general oppression.

Sexism in the United States has affected the country greatly. The idea that the world is a “man’s world” has been apparent since the writing of the Declaration of Independence. In The Declaration of Independence, it states that all people “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”(Declaration of Independence). By this, the framers were hopeful that all humans would get these “unalienable Rights”, yet because of sexism women do not get these rights. In The Grapes of Wrath, women are shown to be less than men. It is stated that “Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole” (Steinbeck 4). By this statement, the reader is told that as long as the men were okay,

Traditional gender roles (men performing instrumental tasks and women performing expressive tasks) are viewed as important not only for the individual but also for the economic and social order of society. Failure to maintain the traditional division of labor is believed to lead to destruction of family life as well as higher rates of crime, violence, and drug abuse. Human capital theorists claim that sex differences in promotion rates are due to sex differences in commitment, education, and experience; women are believed to have less to offer employers. Even if these differences exist, this position ignores the fact that women are in a system of inequality, where social expectations prevent them from having qualifications that are similar to men. The conflict perspective emphasizes men’s control over scarce resources. The gendered division of labor within families and in the workplace results from male control of and dominance over women and resources. Differentials between men and women may exist in terms of economic, political, physical, and/or interpersonal power. Men remain the head of household and control the property. Also, men gain power through their predominance in the most highly paid and prestigious occupations and the highest elected offices. Liberal/Equal Rights Feminists – seek equal access for females within the current social system; focus is on equality of opportunity (e.g., civil rights and occupational equality). Radical/Transformative Feminists –

Portion of the world don’t discriminate men like how they discriminate women, things in the world give men the power and make the females feel as if they have no voice. I feel as if they should give women the same right as they do with the men but part of this wouldn’t change a thing. This give us a detail of how the world revolves around the men and not women, the power statement shows that we put women down but we don’t here there voice. Reading this article of “Mcintosh” it told me a lot on how men would treat the women with low self-steam. In the article they talk about how the males would treat the females on the things they would like to do. The white men also was against having the female in office or letting them participate in the real life situation going on in the world.

The codification of misogynistic rules that solely pertain to leveling up the man’s position in a society have had a

Women’s advance in power is a hindrance to the development of equal rights in a traditional patriarchal society through the oppression of men by emotional restriction, and an excessive amount of guidelines that women expect only men to follow. The escalation of women’s prestige in society results in an imbalance of privilege shared between the two genders.

For centuries women had had to bow to men they were taught never to speak unless called upon or spoken to. That their sole purpose in life was to be a homemaker; a servant to the men in their lives fathers, brothers, sons. As time progressed women began to fight for their right to receive equal rights, education and vote. But that wasn’t enough in the year 2013 women still made eighty cents to every man’s dollar but that all changed one day. Women who were sick of being oppressed had risen up against the male chauvinism within society of the united states.The first measure was to take all men out of all positions of decision-making power immediately, and of any kind of social, professional position whatsoever. The men of society were

America is a country that prides itself on equal opportunity for all. However, the results of the recent presidential election have demonstrated a major disparity in the ‘equality’ of that opportunity. Donald Trump, with almost no political qualifications, beat out Hillary Clinton, a highly qualified individual, for the presidency. In addition, many scandals were attached to the Trump campaign, mainly his disparaging comments against women. The success of his campaign, after all the scandals, can be attributed to sexism in the general American population. Ingrained sexism in American society constituted a major reason as to why Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election.

For many years in the United States, women have been faced with equality issues. Men were regarded as superior, which made women feel inferior and insignificant. One place this has occurred is the workplace. This type of inequality dates backs centuries and comes from the common belief that since men were the breadwinners, women should take care of the home and children. As a result, men were believed to be more efficient in their careers. This is also known as systemic discrimination (Kennedy et al., 2008). When women were given the right to vote, they began to progress and take their place in the workforce. As they increased in numbers, there became a need to for fair

In today’s society, many people in the US believe that women and men are completely equal. This is a common thought because people think that if both sexes can vote, both are equal everywhere else. Of course, this is not true. Many of the issues referred to in this essay are hidden from the public eye. For example, sexual harassment is something that you know exists, but you never see it happen. Noticing the pay gap, and getting promoted is also something hidden unless you are a worker. Women may have gained their “equality” when they earned the right to vote, but today’s women still push for total equality. In the US, men and women are not treated equally because women are paid less than men, women are sexually harassed more than men, and

American society is heavily influenced by the power of privilege; who has it and who doesn’t, and how those groups interact together. This influence isn’t only based on who holds most of the societal privilege in the present but it can even be viewed in terms of which groups historically had the power of privilege, and how they interacted with the groups who historically did not have it. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary privilege is defined as “.a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor especially such a right or immunity attached specifically to a position or an office” (Merriam-Webster). In America we see a clear definition between those who have it and those who do not. In our society it is safe to say men hold the most privilege while women are left to deal with what powers the men throw our way. By thrown our way I literally mean the powers men allow other social groups, not just women, to have through a variety of forces. Men use their privilege to dominate over women in almost any way they can, or at the very least they sit back and benefit from their privilege.

Since the beginning of time, women have explicitly had fewer rights than men until early 1972 when the equal rights amendment was passed. However, the passing of this amendment did not mean that women were treated equal to men. Despite supposedly being “equal,” to this day, women get paid less than men, making only about eighty percent of that their male counterparts earn. More injustices are shown in politics where despite having increased the number of females in government positions drastically since the twentieth century, women make up less than a quarter of the parliament as of August 2016. In more recent times, government funding has been taken away from abortion clinics, the Affordable Care Act on women has been repealed, being a

“Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over- female domination”(Dworkin).