The Future Of Game Design

This concept illustrates gender inequality because even in a field that is dominated by women, gender perceptions about men’s roles, abilities, and skills, privilege them and ease their advancement within the occupation. (Wingfield, p363-365)

In today’s society it is still common to assign gender stereotype to specific career paths. Careers such as a construction worker, mechanic and electrician may be gender stereotyped as a man’s career and careers such as nursing, secretary, elementary school teachers and child care workers may be seen as a woman’s profession. I chose to analyze the concept of “ The Glass Escalator” by Adia Wingfield and relate it to two different news articles “ More men enter Fields Dominated by Women.” By Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff and the article “Kudos for the Black Male Nurse” by Benjamin Greeen Jr. It has been encouraged for both men and women to take on occupational fields regardless of gender and race stereotypes. In Adia Wingfield’s study she also focuses on the inequality based off of race and gender in the work field for advancement in the a workplace. I decided to focus more on the subject of men just entering these different fields as an accomplishment.

The force of societal stereotypes is a large part of this gap. Instead of joining STEM careers, the most common careers among women are secretaries, nurses, and elementary and middle school teachers (Mandell). This truly illustrates that when well-rounded, talented women have the choice, they are inclined to delve into the field in which society expects them to belong. In this way, the stereotype of women not being involved in STEM is forcing less women to be involved in these fields. The deficiency of women in technical fields, despite their well-roundedness and ability, can be directly related to unyielding cultural stereotypes that stigmatize women in supposedly masculine fields.

Women have been held back for many years because of their gender and now that people see everyone more equally why are women still being held back. Major Eleanor

I’ve always believed that women should have the same opportunities as men and can be just as successful leaders in society. I briefly looked into the military, took the ASVAB entrance exam and considered becoming a deployed doctor; however, I realized my passion lies within something else. Engineering and science, two programs that mostly consist of men, has become what I strive for. Within the past couple weeks I was able to shadow and work in the lab with several Sanford Hospital researchers and I found that although women are less represented in the science/engineering field, we can still achieve the same potential that any man

Changes are also occurring on university campuses across the nation as more young women than men are now seeking and excelling in obtaining secondary educations at major universities. This simply means more young women are delaying getting married and having families till later in life which is a huge change in tradition and seeking professional careers instead. However, they face many uphill challenges both now and in the future since they are not seen as equals in the professional arena in these rapidly changing modern

Currently in the United States Congress, only one of five individuals are female. There has never been a female president, and out of the 9 judicials in the Judicial Branch - only one is a woman. It is clear that men hold most of government positions. Men hold other authoritative positions as well, in business, in schools, and at home. Is this a surprise? Why don’t we see more women in these worthy roles? Women acquire many qualities that can benefit the world, but the crazed, advanced society shuts women down. Yes, men have proven themselves to be very successful and smart; but today’s society coerces women to climb mountains to achieve the respect, and the jobs that men receive. In foreign countries like Pakistan, women are taught not to

I was captivated by this article because it discusses social constructs and how they shape a person’s career choice. Bell describes how gender roles denote a career path in children at an early age. Research showed that girls tend to choose careers such as nurses, teachers and stylist, while boys often pick firefighters or cops. Children tend to lean towards stereotypical jobs based on their gender. Consequently, the brain is complex and hard to decipher so we cannot be sure if this is biological or environmental. We do, however, have the power to change how we communicate career choices to the youth. A man can become a stylist and a woman can become an engineer. In other words, labeling an entire job on behalf of a gender limits a candidate choice. At an early age, my family taught me how important it was to choose hobbies based on whether or not I enjoyed them. Specifically, this meant having the chance to partake in camps and sports without my gender stopping me. Having this background served as my foundation when I chose my career

Ruth Simpson interviewed 40 males working in the female-dominated professions of primary school teachers, flight attendants, nursing, and librarians to better understand their experiences. Of those interviewed, only two found their career choice unsatisfactory and had plans to leave (356). The rest were glad they chose or stumbled upon their current career.

Today’s college students have the opportunity and freedom to choose their major and their career path. Many factors influence the decision of a college student’s career paths including background, general interests, personal strengths, time commitment, and job outlook. Although many important decisions are made in college, one of the most important is the choice of major and career track. Out of hundreds of majors the science and engineering fields are under-represented by women. Although the numbers of women in science technology, engineering, and mathematics, STEM, majors has been increasing in the past years, women still are in the minority in the STEM fields. In her study, Lona Whitmarsh

Gender has had a repeating effect on the choice of careers for people all throughout the United States. In history, it is taught that males dominated women in many careers, while women dominated males in only a few other minor positions. Males had an upper hand over women in engineering and in the military. One of the reasons males dominated was the idea of dominance over women has been passed down for centuries. It was never common for a women to be an engineer of a home or anything that wasn’t meant for women. Women only dominated in certain areas in the medical field because they were subjected to few positions. In the military, women were put down due their physical ability and laws set blocked many careers and positions in the military. Throughout history women have fought many laws to break gender inequality. And even up to now there are still some laws that prohibit women from doing specific jobs in their desired field.

As longs as humans have existed, women have been oppressed. Men were generally seen as the breadwinner, the man in the relationship, the man of the house. This theory, or belief further lead to what was known as the retro-era. The retro-era, around the 1950’s, was the epitome of gender-based stereotypes, where women were only valuable to household skills such as cooking, cleaning and housework. In more modern times, women gradually received more rights to pursue careers men would stereotypically take over. Pursuing “manly” careers, which include lawyers, actors, politicians and anything that requires exceeding cognitive function, as a woman elicits criticism. It’s clear to see women have much more limitations, restrictions and expectations than

Society says that women cannot have very important and intellectual jobs like a lawyer, doctor, or a politician. For example, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a lawyer turned supreme court justice had to overcome many societal pressures and racism, especially because she started her career in a very sexist nonprogressive time. According to the book Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, Ruth Ginsburg graduated from Cornell University in 1954 and went to Harvard Law School in 1956 and was one of nine women in a class of about five hundred people. At school, there were many unfair rules and rituals that discriminated and even humiliated women. For example, there were certain important areas of the campus women weren’t allowed and there were days where professors would only call on women and give them only demeaning and

July 9th, 2004, my fourth birthday, marks the day my mother and father were married. I didn't quite understand the meaning of marriage, in fact the only thing i cared about at the time was what could be in the box i was given. Almost instantly i begin opening the present; wrapping paper flying everywhere, i finally saw what it was. A Super Nintendo. Prior to this day i have never even touched a video game controller, mostly because we never had one due to our lack of money, so this was a huge experience for me despite it being an older console. The entire rest of that day was spent learning and playing the new system i had received; since then I found that everyday I would play my system for hours on end just to become better at the games. About four years later I was

As stated earlier, gender difference plays a great factor in social exclusion. Women are easily excluded when talking about career opportunities as career expectations have been “given” already.