The Role Of Sexism In Human Behavior

The purpose of this study is to determine whether sexism has an effect on the lives of women in situations such as breastfeeding their child and whether or not people take offense to the sight of seeing a mother breastfeed her child. I will recruit 100 participants, 50 males, and 50 females, ranging from ages 18 to 50. I will perform my study using an experimental design where participants are shown a series of images in a video on a projector screen and they will place the images in one of two categories, with ten slots open for each category. The next part of my study will be to ask the participants in an essay question if they would continue, or be comfortable with their significant other continuing to breastfeed in public after receiving negative feedback from a stranger (See Appendix). I hypothesize that the majority of the participants will place an image of a mother breastfeeding in a public setting in a “bad deeds” category, but will place a picture of shirtless men playing football in the park in the “good deeds” category. I expect to come to the conclusion that people are more likely to take offense to the sight of a woman breastfeeding than to seeing a shirtless man.

Sexism refers to the prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of their gender. It is a fact that throughout history, men have had more power than women, and that even now, in 2016, we live in a world where, for the most part, men are still considered superior to women. There are different kinds of sexism present in our everyday lives, some forms of sexism have been embedded so deep in our brains that they’ve become normalized and go unperceived, while others are blatant but ongoing, still, the image that men are the dominant sex is alive and well, both consciously and unconsciously in the minds of men and women around the world.

In modern america sexism is slowly diteriating, but it has not complitly disappeared. Women have worked hard to become astronaut, Ceos, presidentsdoctors and more, but even with these accomplishments women are still discriminated against. Women face a variety of stereotypes in the work place that prevent them from progress, some company's really think that women don't need equal pay because they are not the head of the house hold and their husbands paycheck should do the job. Other business corporations believe that women can not committed to a job because they are the primary caregiver of their children which causes companies to lose money every time there is an emergency. "The paradox is that the world of rigid and hierarchical sex roles

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.

Our culture has an obsession for incredible stories, where you love to hate the people within a story. The media took two cases, that of Amy Fisher and Lorena Bobbitt,

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.

and women sexual agency. Overall, sexual consent is represented in different forms regarding both males and females and plays a role in sexual violence.

Too often I have been called bossy. Too often I have been told my opinion does not matter. Too often have I been told to sit down and hold my tongue. Too often I have been called aggressive simply because I choose to voice my thoughts. Too often society has told me that because I am a woman, I am the lesser gender. However, despite what society has constantly told me and everyone around me, I have learned to overcome the inherent sexism with a single tool: a suit.

Sexism today, is entirely engrained in our culture. It is so extremely prevalent that some people deeply dispute its integrated continuation from civilizations a millenia ago into our civilizations today. But, is sexism really a continuation from civilizations past? I do not believe that to be true. The novel Inanna, jointly written by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer, includes gender equality manifested epics written by Enheduanna, the “world’s first author known by name” (Mark. 2014.). Homer’s epic, The Iliad, postdates the texts of Inanna by 1,500 years; however, the increase of time does not correlate directly with an increase of parity. Instead, surmounting several years resulted in a regression of equivalence pertaining to genders. Women in The Iliad are portrayed as either possessions and trophies, or as embodiments of temptations for which men can neither resist nor be held responsible for if they are successfully enticed. Written between the time of 600 BCE and 400 BCE, about two centuries after The Iliad, Tao Te Ching incorporates several instances throughout its text showing high regards to femininity and mothering. Following Tao Te Ching also by approximately 200 years, The Bhagavad Gita provides the concept that all souls are genderless and therefore have the same opportunities to reach a supreme destination of finally ending the cycle of reincarnation making it equally attainable between sexes. These

Sexism has been a serious problem in society for decades, and it continues to persist in today’s culture. Sexism is the result of men and women being treated differently. Consequently, this creates profound inequalities between the sexes (Hesmondhalgh and Baker).

We have all heard of different accounts of sexism on the news; a man beating his wife, controlling someone's actions, and objectification of women. Though how many times is it reported when someone compliments on how someone looks, or on something that they do well? While personal compliments can seem acceptable, it slowly erodes our gender equality and results in consequences in our society. This damaging concept is known as benevolent sexism, as it is less socially present compared to hostile sexism.While the majority of people know, and recognize hostile sexism and the consequences it has on our society; benevolent sexism is not as socially noticed and treated the same as hostile sexism. The environment that houses each type of this sexism is a serious issue in today’s society as both are commonly used, but given social moderation due to the environment that it takes place in. We should not continue to allow the social moderation we establish amoung sexism and its environment.

Have you ever been told that's not what a lady for, or that men should generate the money? Sexism does not set worthy examples for children. It is far too unfair on both sexes. Sexism also sets unrealistic expectations of society. Due to the effects on society, sexism needs to be stopped.

It might be difficult to totally prevent such an unmistakable issue in our society, for example, sexism, yet making a move against it is something that all females ought to rally together and do. Decreasing the control of sexism in our society would profit the women and our society as well as the men. In this way, I think it is vital for all men to make themselves aware of the shamefulness of sexism in our society and get to be colleagues of the women since it would really make the world we live in a more sensible and unbiased place.

Sexism has always been a major issue for women. It seems that today, everyone has to be careful of what they say and do so as to avoid offending someone. While everyone is busy worrying about extinguishing sexism towards women - which still is an issue that needs to be taken care of, who is concerned with sexism towards men? Sexism is just as much of an issue to men as it is to women.

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