The Walking Dead By Robert Kirkman

In Susan Douglas’s “Enlightened Sexism,” she describes a new and progressive warrior woman that uses her femininity and sexuality to appear strong. This woman is pageant-queen beautiful, has a voluptuous scantily clad body, yet is girly in a way that fights gender normatives and dismantles the patriarchy. Warrior women have no need for relationships, and always knows what to say. Melissa McBride’s depiction of character “Carol Peletier” in “The Walking Dead” defies these standards of what a warrior woman needs to be in order to be successful. In the first episode of the series, she is a shaky and abused housewife; at the current point in the series, Carol most recently hid a machine gun in her coat sleeve and massacres a group of enemy gang

The hit TV series, The Walking Dead is about a small group of people trying to survive the apocalypse. Along with trying to survive the undead, the main characters also encounter many conflicts with other survivors. These encounters change the main characters drastically; we see many personality changes because of the horrific events that happen along their journey. This story is not all about fighting the undead, it also shows how the main characters adapt to their surroundings, by making a shelter, finding food, and try to live as closely as they can to a normal life. The director throws in so many plot twists, it keeps me wanting to watch more. This show is so interesting, it has been my favorite TV show since it came out in 2010.

Many of these inequalities come from the work place, for example in 2015, women made 75 cents for every dollar a man made. There are many reasons why gender inequality still exists in the work place, such as the direct discrimination of women, as some women are paid less to do the same job as a man. Even in politics today, there are more males in government. Although women have made significant strides in the political field in the last 20 years, only about 22 percent of women make up government. Also, domestic violence is very much prevalent today against women, even though in 1993, the UN General assembly passed the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence on Women, yet 1 in 3 women are abused by their intimate partner. In spite of the fact that it’s been an entire century since Trifles was published, gender inequality is still a top priority today and unless women begin to be looked at as equals, there will always be major obstacles for women in society

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 –

For years women have been associated with the discriminating roles society has placed on them. For decades now many women have been trying to change the gender gap in pay, being unable to vote, and maltreatment of several thousand a year. The causes of several women have helped them get to where they stand now in society.

Men and women are treated differently from each other. Society has developed stereotypes and archetypes for the two different genders. Men are portrayed to be strong, independent individuals that are the providers of the household. Women are often seen as weak subordinates that take care of the children and residences of men. The way society has characterized genders and their roles are as separate and unequal. Aaron H. Devor wrote in his essay “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender” the following quote: “It seems most likely that gender roles are the result of systematic power imbalances based on gender discrimination” (395). After reading several works on the portrayal of femininity and women, I can see where Devor is coming from when he talks about the imbalance of gender roles and I agree with his views on the matter.

Women have been downgraded and mistreated because of their gender. From birth, Women and Men grew up with very different rules to follow. Men were raised to be the head of the house and do work for a living. Growing up as little girls, women were taught to raise their kids and make food for their families. “Strong family structures were necessary because the family was the basis for all other institutions. The government, church, and community all worked through the nuclear family unit.”(“Gender and

The Walking Dead, Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects and Lars Von Trier’s film Melancholia, all open with the end of the world as their starting points to begin their narrative, aiming to demonstrate how the end of contemporary time, as familiar to both the characters in the show, as well as Morton and Trier’s audiences (us), are forced to adapt, alter, and change the way in which we perceive the world, and act in order to survive in our new conditions. The following essay, utilizing the apocalyptic theme contained within all three works, will strive to illustrate how certain global events which profoundly revamp the world in which we live, as seen in all three abovementioned examples, work in shifting the motivations, ethical groundings, and moral underpinnings of the world’s inhabitants. More precisely, the following thesis will aim to answer what it means to act ethically in a world that has “ended”, or is always ending, and how the end of times powerfully permutes the innate instincts, incentives, and concerns of all mankind.

As a consequence of gender discrimination, women as human beings aren 't getting the same respect as men instead they were seen as commodities. Consequently, living with gender expectation causes harm to either one of the gender.

Women and men are viewed differently since the beginning of time. The men were to be said the “head” of the house; they worked outside the house and brought bread to his family; while the women stayed inside their homes and did their chores and raised the children. The men had the privileges of studying and voting, but the women had to work hard to earn those privileges. Since beginning of time, woman was seen as the “weak link”, someone who did not have power over men, lead, think for herself or speak up. Nowadays, that has changed. Women are successful in whatever they do, they lead, they work, they vote; yet they still are viewed differently than men.

Gender discrimination is not something that we can see in our home but also when we look into our society, we can see many types of discrimination. It can be in school, workplace, bus or even in train. The main problem with our society is that people consider women as powerless or someone to be in home to look after the kids. People think that some works can be done by only men so they just hire male workers by thinking that female workers can't do heavy works. Also, there will be unequal wages between male and female workers by just looking into their gender. Sometimes men get higher wages because the boss think that males are the one who take care of the family. In some cases, if woman is pregnant, some employers do not even like to interview or hire them just because they are pregnant. So, in most cases, women have to hide their pregnancy because of the fire they get fired. These kinds of gender discrimination

Because of the social stigma it makes society surrounding a women to not have as equal opportunities as a man does. It leads to lesser pay, have less opportunities for higher ranked jobs, as well as being more likely to live in poverty. The structural- functionalist perspective states because of a woman’s biology they are expected to bear, nurse, and raise children at home rather than being a provider like their male counterparts. The high in- equality came from the agricultural age of hunting and gathering, men and women were equal partners when it came to providing because they both had a job to do out of necessity. The woman was needed to produce while the man was needed to hunt. The conflict perspective stated because society evolved to become more industrial rather than agricultural, males were able to have an upper hand in dominance because they were able to have a hold on private property, requiring laws to have a female to be property as well. Males also assumed females were incapable by two beliefs are which are said to be a. to be less reliable, intelligent, and rational and b. They are most needed at home because of their natural instincts to be a mother (Mooney). Unlike the Structural- Functionalist perspective which states the high inequality comes from the division of biology because men are naturally stronger, the conflict perspective believes the lower position women have is due to the lower position

Instead of experiencing intimate relationships women are taking care of children and working. Women are getting paid less even when working the same hours as men. Instead of women living a full and experienced life they are isolating themselves to just family and work when living in poverty. The role expectations of women cause, stress, anger, anxiety and helplessness. According to the Fact Sheet: Women &Socioeconomic Status women are more likely to be diagnosed with depression and anxiety orders living below the poverty

Gender inequality has been the main focus for many centuries through the use of discrimination and oppression women were exploited. Where women had very little rights of their own or a voice in society but made many sacrifices to achieve equal rights whether it be in employment or other areas of inequality. As men were seen as masculine breadwinners and women as more feminine by looking after the family and raring of children.

Although they have been given more rights and equality, women still lack fairness in areas such as education, domestic abuse, crime, and lower class value. Cassandra Clifford states in her article “Are Girls still marginalized? Discrimination and Gender Inequality in Today’s Society”, “Woman and girls are abused by their husbands and fathers, young girls are exploited by sex tourism and trafficking, girls in many countries are forced into arranged marriages at early ages. Twice as many women are illiterate as men, due to the large gap in education, and girls are still less likely to get jobs and excel in the work place than boys.” She describes some of the issues that women face today around the world. These issues are what keep society from coming together to form a better world.