Women 's Brain, And Marjane Satrapi 's The Veil

The psychology concept relating to women was that they were not allowed to vote or have rights because they were not as smart as men. Additionally, since a woman’s body is biologically different than a man, women was treated differently. For this reason, society was organized to not let woman vote, hold political offices, or to receive the same treatment as men. As a result of how the society was structured, women had to change the institution they were placed in. Women had to prove to men that they are as smart and that even though they are biologically different, that women are just as capable. I believe social facts are still prevalent today, people continue to use biology and psychology to create institutions which separates people because of the way they look, religion, and

Since the beginning of evolution, females have been subjected and objectified based on their gender. History taught us that when during the 19th century, Charles Darwin, an English naturalist and geologist stated in his papers “The Origin of Man” (1859) and “Descent of Man” (1871) that men were superior to women. Unfortunately, such subjections to women still persist today; in politics, education, labor and surprisingly in science.

Gender inequality can be explained using the conflict theory which is a common agreement that men have been dominant throughout many societies for many years (Joan Acker, 1989). It is believed that women are weak, while men are strong. Most women have been enslaved by men throughout

“Men are stronger than women.” Due to the hormone differences between men and women, women have less muscle mass and more fat mass then men, so by default men are just better than women. Women and men also have different genitals, but having their genitals outside of their body men must be superior

The article The End of Men by Hanna Rosin talks about her viewpoint on how women are becoming the dominant sex over men. One reason Rosin uses to explain how women are becoming the dominant sex in the world is seen in her interview with Ronald Ericsson. He was the founding father in developing the technology for separating X and Y chromosomes found in sperm and his ideal outcome was to produce more boys. In the 90’s however, Ericsson began to notice that couples were requesting more girls and the ratio grew to as high as 2 to 1 in favor of having girls in some clinics. A new sperm selection method called MicroSort showed 75% of couples requesting girls. Overtime, women who called his clinic immediately said that they wanted a girl without hesitation. This change in female dominance is also seen in Ericssons immediate family. His 26-year-old granddaughter is a biochemist and his niece studied civil engineering at USC. When describing his grandsons, he says they were “bright and handsome”, however in school “their eyes seemed to glaze over”, which shows how males were beginning to lose interest in school more than females were. This is one reason that supports Rosin’s viewpoint.

The commonly held theories that women are inferior to men, because they lack the strength of character, mind, and body that men are attributed to having, are misleading for many reasons. To assume that men are superior in these three aspects is to assume that all men and women equally share the same strengths and weaknesses of their entire sex. To do this one must accept the fact that all

In situations or places of power, such as the workplace, men are represented as physiologically and mentally superior to women. This is because of the scientific ideals that state how women are scientifically less dominant than men but the World State had abolished roles of men and

Moreover, the assumption that women aren’t as smart as men due to genetics is called biological essentialism. Tyson explains biological essentialism as a theory and “belief in the inborn inferiority of women” (Tyson 1). Tying back to patriarchal society, men were believed to be superior due to this concept, as women have always been portrayed as the weaker sex, in a biological way. This gave men an excuse to be controlling over their wives, as seen in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story of An Hour”. Both Gilman and Chopin criticize patriarchal society in the sense that when men possess a “natural” sense of superiority over women, it leads them to be controlling over women; however, women seek liberation away from their oppressor, with patriarchal society ultimately winning in the battle towards their freedom.

Ever since the beginning of time, gender roles have been set in place. Men are seen as the more dominate species; they are stronger, smarter, more successful, hardworking and are overall just better than women. Men tend to have the upper hand in society while women are seen as less than equal. This can be seen in everyday circumstances whether it being in the work place, or just in society. Men everyday are told they need to be the stronger ones, when it comes to anything, especially emotions, men cannot cry is something they hear since birth.

in the government of the physical world it is observable that the female in point of strength is, in general, inferior to the male. This is the law of Nature; and it does not appear to be suspended or abrogated in favour of woman. A degree of physical superiority cannot, therefore, be denied, and it is a noble prerogative! (Wollstonecraft, 111).2

Social differentiation refers to the line drawn between the various groups of individuals in the society based on their age, gender, race, nationality among other factors (Warde & Martens 21). Social differentiation process, which is also referred to as box creating process is vital in the escalating cases of social inequality, more specifically, for the purpose of this article, gender and sexual inequality. The demarcations created on the basis of this factors (gender and sexual attributes of an individual) tend to mould individuals to depict a tunnel-view way of both looking at doing things. Individuals are handled/treated according to the box in which they belong to. However, what ought to be put into consideration by the “box creators” is that not all individuals in the society will fit in the created boxes. Some will tend to belong to none of them, or perhaps, in some cases, belong to both of them, something which makes it necessary for the dismantlement of the binaries (Lucal 519).

     For many years society has embraced the idea that the difference between men and women were biologically determined. Thou through traditions, media, and peers we act accordingly to how others view us. Each individual has pressure placed upon them based on their gender. Our sex is determined by genetics while our gender is programmed by social customs. Some theories interpret that a women is tender and a loving mother while on the other hand men are aggressive hunters and are the dominant one of the family. People who support this theory seems to believe that men and women are happier when fulfilling the roles nature determined for them. Women are to be nurturing and men are to be providers by

Traditional society believes that men are more powerful than women. How society put men as the leaders in the society proves it. It causes men to have power over women. For example, in traditional society, men become the acceptable leaders who are responsible for making decisions. The decisions mostly disadvantage women. Meanwhile, women are destined to agree all of the decisions made by men. For instance, husband tells his wife to stay at home instead of taking part in society. Husband also warns his wife to not speak

Throughout history, countless acts of gender inequality can be identified; the causes of these discriminating accounts can be traced back to different causes. The general morality of the inequity relies on a belief that men are superior to women; because of this idea, women have spent generations suffering under their counterparts. Also, a common expectation is that men tend to be more assertive and absolute because of their biological hormones or instinctive intellect. Another huge origin is sexual discrimination; even in the world today, many women are viewed by men as just sex objects rather than a real human being with

This classification is constructed by discourse with the objective of recreating hegemonic paradigms and perpetuating current power relations. Defining Women and Men as universal categories disguises the interests it serves. Therefore, anything that is defined as natural or universal should be studied critically. She writes, “Signification is not a founding act, but rather a regulated process of repetition that both conceals itself and enforces its rules precisely through the production of substantializing effects” (185). The assumption that there is a pre-discursive body with a pre-determined sexuality and gender sustains oppression against subjugated and marginalized subjects. Disconnected from the body, she suggests, gender can include more than two versions. The analysis of these concepts--or deconstruction-- provides tools to the socially oppressed to fight against the existent social