Trying To Enforce Gender Stereotypes: Article Analysis

Dress codes in middle and high schools are a form of discrimination against teenage girls in today’s society. Parents and students all over the country argue that dress codes are directed mainly at girls and are a blatant example of gender inequality. The idea behind the strict enforcement of a dress code is that it will teach self-respect and raise moral standards for the students. However, when the reason for many dress code violations is questioned the rationale is often to prevent distracting the male students. Young women across the country are being shamed and punished for wearing what schools consider immodest and being a distraction to their male peers. This discrimination against female students results in their clothes being strictly regulated and dress coded more often than male students’ clothes are. The enforcement of these discriminatory dress codes has become a form of public humiliation for female students. Theoretically, a dress code makes sense and should be effective. In reality, it does not affect how students dress but causes a distraction and interruption of a girl’s education.

I agree with few school dress code standards such as “less competition, pressure or other distractions from academics” and uniformity, though many public school districts take advantage of the authority they have over the young mindsets (OCadiz). While having influence over young minds, administrators have suppressed one group, allowing another group to have more freedom than ever. Discriminating against a young woman’s rights to express herself simply because she is a “distraction” is disconcerting. We often wonder why some men grow to be cruel to women, but have you ever thought this behavior could have been recognized while in their primary and secondary schooling? Administrators also argue that school is for learning and not expressing oneself, but where do children spend the majority of their time? If children can not express themselves in school, where else can they?

Schools are slowly taking away people 's individuality, but only seems like they are focusing on girls not boys. “ The way boys and girls get in trouble for violating dress codes is different and girls are disproportionately targeted for disobeying it” (“Rosalind Classroom Conversation”). Rosalind agrees that girls are targeted for dress codes more than boys are. In a girls point of view it seems unfair that boys can wear anything they would like, for example muscle shirts, shirts with alcohol, shirts with naked women on them, but not even get dress coded or a warning (Bassett). Meanwhile, a student that was a girl gotten dress coded because her collarbone was showing and it was deemed that it was inappropriate, even after her mother brought her a scarf in that covered her collarbone (Alvarez). Another student which was also a girl got dress coded because her skirt was a few centimeters under her finger tip. They had to send her home, she had missed all her classes and what they were teaching that day because of what they thought it was inappropriate (Bassett). Analuiza states that “ The only reason I go to school is to get my education. When I get dressed in the morning, my intention is not to provoke or be sexualized. My intention is to feel comfortable in my own skin” (Bassett). As a girl I believe that Analuiza is correct with what she had stated, that girls should be able to feel comfortable, and not be sexualized or feel like they are

Amanda Claire Curcio has worked in a plethora of work fields such as in the U.S. Army, a special education assistant, an English teacher, and now she is a journalist for the Tallahassee Democrat, a USA-Today associated paper, working there for one and a half years. This article is about a real-life incident of how a gender-neutral, 8th grade boy, who decides one day to attend school in a dress and gets sent home for “violating school policy” (4). Throughout the whole article, there is no bias, just factual information and quotes from the people that were questioned about the incident. This article will be beneficial to my paper because I am going this incident as an example to help back up my thesis in my issue analysis paper.

To start off, I found your journal entry very interesting. Additionally, I liked how you decided to do your response in a different approach than the way many others or I did. Rather than just explaining what we think when we meet someone with a different speech pattern, you decided to describe your experience of being the victim of being the one who was judged and bullied. Your story was very touching, and I am glad you are now proud of your accent and the way you speak.

The students ignored the rule for dress code, because they thought they were being sexist. “ High school boys wearing dresses strike a pose with big smiles on their faces. They know they’re breaking school rules, but they hope their gender-defying outfits will spark change”. A high school boy on a cheerleading team in Ohio was denied lunch in early February for wearing a bow in his hair. Boys at West High School in Columbus, Ohio, then wore bows in their hair to show their solidarity for him”. The students think that the school is telling the students what to wear even though they probably represent as a different gender. The world is changing so the students think that the school policies should too. “ With changing times, students are fighting to express their identity freely. Nineteen percent of the 7,800 students surveyed in middle and high school across the country said they were prevented from wearing clothing deemed, “inappropriate” based on their gender, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s 2013 National School Climate Survey, Teens are asking their schools to update policies to reflect the changing norms in society”. With the changing world the policies and dress code rules need to be updated to this world society. Girls ignored the rules for the dress code, because it was focusing more on girls and not teaching the boys

One issue that is often presented in public schools is dress codes. Each school has a variety of different policies for both boys and girls, yet most are more biased against what girls wear. We often find in a student handbook the amount of sentences for what girls aren’t allowed to wear compared to boys. These dress codes are seen as sexist because they require girls to cover anything that seems to be “distracting,” but mainly these codes are made mainly for a boy’s purpose. Regulations include such as, nothing revealing, as for the exposure of shoulders, shorts or skirts have to be a certain length and often yoga or leggings are banned. When girls violate the dress code they are often sent to the office to change or suspended because they didn’t follow the rules. These policies also take over school events like prom and homecomings. It is such an issue because they limit a girls freedom of what they want to wear. Also, it is sexist because most of these regulations are made for boys in order to not be distracted on what a girl wears. These dress codes are problematic at public schools and girls are more targeted on these policies. Throughout the years they have faced discrimination and the effects, yet some agree that these dress codes serve a purpose.

Since the beginning of time, gender has played a big role in how one acts and how one is looked upon in society. From a young age children are taught to be either feminine or masculine. Why is it that gender plays a big role in the characteristics that one beholds? For centuries in many countries it has been installed in individual’s heads that they have to live by certain stereotypes. Women have been taught to be feeble to men and depend on them for social and economical happiness. While men have been taught to be mucho characters that have take care of their homes and be the superior individual to a woman. For the individuals who dare to be different and choose to form their own identity whether man or woman, they are out casted and

School dress codes have been a prominent topic of discussion the past few years. Largely, young girls and some school board members are fighting against these sexist codes that govern schools across the world today. Dress codes target young women by stating they should dress appropriately so they do not distract the male students. This leads to men thinking it’s acceptable to disrespect women, and also women feeling like what they wear is more important than their academics. This results in a number of large issues such as gender inequality, stereotyping, and sexual harassment.

The Globe and Mail, APTN, and Windspeaker use different evidence in their reports, which shapes audience interpretation of the events. The Globe and Mail often references Conservative politicians, especially Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, occasionally mentioning other politicians such as Dalton McGuinty, Liberal Premier of Ontario at the time (Galloway, 2012a; Galloway & Moore, 2013; Galloway, 2013). It also often presents comments from prominent Canadian First Nations chiefs. Similarly, Windspeaker references the actions and speeches of prominent Canadian chiefs and politicians; however, they quote a greater diversity of chiefs and present information about politicians in the Conservative party as well as

Women belong in the kitchen; you have heard that before. During the old times things were completely different, and a vast majority of people never gave it much thought until recently; mostly due to the feminist movement. The world is still full of stereotypes, most of which are based in gender roles.

Images are all around us, and while some are helpful many can destroy the image that is our existence. These negative images are projected at us through media, and the media is all around us, making it at the very least difficult if not impossible to ignore them. A great analysis of the effect of these negative images on young women is a film titled Beyond Killing Us Softly. The third in a series of films on the advertising industry, body image, and women, Beyond Killing Us Softly is a 30-minute documentary that explores the question of how adolescent girls interpret the confusing, conflicting, and sexist messages they get from the media. Featuring feminist activists and scholars including Carol Gilligan, Amy Richards, Gloria Steinem, and

A statistic showed that “(In 2009-10) about 57 percent of public school principals reported that their schools enforced a dress code. The codes themselves vary; some rules are intended to promote modesty and others to encourage a respectful learning environment” (Dell’Antonia). However, it is not always the dress code that is sexist. Some dress codes,such as Churchill’s, are written with gender equality in mind but the way the school’s enforce them, make them sexist. A student will rarely see a fellow male peer getting pulled out of his learning environment and told to change because the teachers find that his outfit can be proven to be distracting to the learning environment. On the flipside, girls will be pulled out of the learning environment and forced to changed because their outfit or attire can “prove to be a distraction”. The issue here is not that these dress codes are written with sexism in mind its that the way schools enforce them is sexist. A girl could be told her outfit is indecent for the school environment because it could be seen as a distraction to the male population of the school, possibly. Teachers will interpret what they see as inappropriate by what they experienced as a teen but the issue with that is that everyone has a different perceived world based on their past so dress codes get muddled and hard to understand in common agreeance, as does

While the Siegler study did a brilliant job of outlining characteristics that cause aggression as well as detailing methods conducted and sample size, the authors could have utilized a larger sample size rather than just one set of undergraduate students from one population as doing so would yield higher levels of external validity and reliability. After reading and examining the Eagly & Steffan (1984) article, I learned about reasons why males are more likely to seek jobs with higher command and authority than females. According to the Eagly & Steffan article, woman just do not have the same stamina as males do. In my experience, this is not necessarily true because in today’s century,

When we think about, race, class, or gender we think of numerous groups that all have stereotypes that go along with them. Countless of individuals in these groups focus on living life based on the way the world views the correlating stereotype. Stereotypes exist between Race, Class, and Gender; in society, blacks are stereotyped as “ghetto.” While the upper class are seen as white males. The groups can have linked stereotypes. Though stereotypes can be applied during many instances, they usually occur when in an interaction with customer service. In order to receive responses that differentiate when observing these groups, I wanted to be in a place where everyone is comfortable. I chose Hopper Dinning Hall; most groups, in my opinion, are