Women 's Influence On Women

Question: “Women received the vote based on their contribution to the war effort”. How accurate is this view that women gained the vote based solely on war work? 20 marks

When I see Hillary Clinton and I see myself. As an American woman, a recent graduate of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and current graduate student at the University of Oxford, Hillary Clinton inspires me to believe that I too can enter the old boy’s club of American politics. Clinton reminds me of the many women throughout history that we don’t know or learn about, because they so often worked in the shadow of powerful men. Despite spending the bulk of her life in a male-dominated field, Clinton has continued to fight for the rights of women. If women like myself succeed in the political arena, it is because of women like Clinton who have gone through difficulties that we can (luckily) only imagine. Although the political glass

In today’s society, there is often a misconception among women and men and the roles they are expected to follow through with. Although there has been advances in the way women are treated, it is unfortunately still an unbalanced dynamic in our society. From an early age, women are often persuaded, even if subconsciously, to follow a certain pathway in life. They are most often associated with staying home, keeping the house clean, cooking, baking, and raising children. Certain mediums that girls are exposed to tend to sway them towards these specific wants and aspirations. The way in which certain products are presented to little girls create an image they feel like they need to master. Men, on the other hand, are taught something completely different. They are regularly habituated with more masculine and self-reliant tasks. From an early age, they are automatically seen as people that deserve to be educated and use their smart, resourceful assets to contribute to society. They are without a doubt going to get a job and become a father and husband that provides for his family. In most situations, even if the woman has a job, men are the main “bread-winner.” Going along with this belief, the products boys are often marketed portray the idea of strength and independence. Whether it is a toy or a book, men are more often than not characterized as the heroic, more capable gender. There are many cases in which different mediums exhibit the ideas of men being the superior

While it does make sense that some women place a higher importance on care and emotions, I don’t think impartiality and justice should be entirely disregarded. Neither do I think virtues are more specific to one gender over the other. However, gender roles changes do provide a non-traditional view of the moral and social issues that have affected women, which may in turn lead to a change in

Many women face discrimination throughout all stages of their life, beginning at (or even before) birth continuing as an infant, child, adolescent, and adult. While in the educated, urban middle class women’s rights continue to improve, there remains a strong bias against gender equality in those societal parts of India, where patriarchal traditions prevail; her self-image was torn into shreds by the patriarchal family which denied her basic freedom. Indian womanhood was mercilessly locked in the echo

As generations have passed, we as a civilization have achieved so many great accomplishments. We have abolished slavery, we 've discovered methods of curing crippling diseases, and also have made technological advances that helped the world today. Although we have made great changes in many different ways, we still live by the same rules that have been laid out for us thousands of years ago. The rules that men are the ones who should be in higher standing, while the women cater to their needs. The codes that women have to follow supposedly have a “cost and reward” effect, which means that they would need to pay the cost of having the majority of their life dedicated to pleasing society and in hopes that a reward of acceptance would be given, although the cost mostly outweighs the reward. Although it 's been that way since the start of civilization, there are the few exceptions of women who have denied this way of living and have chosen to change the course of their lives. Such women as Joan of Arc, Rosa Parks, and Amelia Earhart, just a few examples of women who have denied the roles that society has given them and chose their own way of living. Women are the ones who are at a major disadvantage when it comes to achieving their goals in a world made for men, and it 's accepted the way that it is. The sources that cover this topic are articles’ “Becoming Members of Society: Learning The Social Meanings of Gender” by Aaron H. Devor and “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt:

As America has grown and developed different forms of social classifications, there have also been instances in history where men and women embodied specific roles in their relationships and households. During in the 1800’s, women were expected to be the caretakers of the home, to produce children, to never really have professional jobs of their own, and to do as they were told by their husband. During this time men were the leading figure of “dominance” in the household due to their social and professional images. The freedoms that women have today were basically as far out of sight as could be. Now in the 21st century men and women are able to work and have professional lives and have a sort of equal “dominance” in their household. However, even now there are instances of women still being suppressed in either the home or in the workforce to which they have established for themselves. So therefore it is still a question of whether or not women are truly equal or just statistics to help boost company image.

Gender is a set of behavioural norm of the masculine or feminine characteristics. It is performative in nature and is largely determined by child’s upbringing. The term became popular in 1980’s. This terminology ‘Gender’ has great association with geography as gender is being influenced by society and culture as these cultures tends to vary over space. So, the gender role also tends to change over space. Gender relation varies across nations in terms of women’s subordination and male power domination. Therefore, it can be said that culture builds up gender and gender is influenced and in turn influence space.

The history of civilization has been the history of women oppression and her marginalization. All religions produced by the patriarchal societies have been the most effective instruments of male chauvinism. This subservience of women from the primitive times and the consequent differentiation made between the two sexes according to their gender identity is evident in the Indian society too. In Indian society, a woman’s role has been compartmentalized as a daughter, a wife and a mother. She has never been acknowledged as an individual outside these pre-destined roles. Over the decades, however, the position of Indian woman

The objectification of the female gender must be terminated. The oppression that the females of India experience day after day go against the universal human rights of freedom. For instance, according to an article released by Research Institute for Compassionate Economics states that, “…the number of woman [in India] sexually assaulted by their husbands is 40 times higher the number of woman who suffer such violence from others” (2015). The research explains how a casual married female is in greater danger inside her own home, ironically, it is where she must feel protected; this in turn decreases or eliminates family unity, morale, and welfare. The passive laws of India have created the foundation that marital rape is acceptable.

In society, whether you are a male or female there are certain expectations attached due to your gender and the sex you were born with. Society deems what is acceptable and what is the norm throughout the years and it changes as time goes on therefore those norms change as well. Throughout living, individuals are shaped by how society depicts them to be whether it is voluntary or not and are found to be deviant when they prefer to not follow those standards. Despite having adjustments during the course of time, there will still be some kind of model for the standard female and male as norms change with the general public. Some of the things that society glues onto gender are the standards and expectations that are forced upon the sex you were assigned to and or the gender you identify as. These could also be stereotypes that develop after a series of constant indicators that lead to the same outcome, such as ‘females needing to be nurturing’ and ‘males needing to be strong’, after hearing this repetitively, it begins to stick and those who are opposite of that will receive the brunt of the judging. Therefore, stereotypes and acts of deviance will shape how contemporary society assesses gender and sex as well as the different experiences individuals will undergo.

Gender role is the primary cause of gender gap and opportunity gap in a world-wide scale. The story of Azita in the same book by Jenny Nordberg is a clear emphasis of gender role being the largest obstacle against women development. After the Taliban came in, bringing along strict rules and limitations to women, Azita went from a highly educated young individual supported by both of her parents to being forced into an arrange marriage with her first cousin as his second wife. However, she did not give up her political passion and gained a position in the parliament but faced heavy pressure both from her husband’s family and the community. Her husband, being an illiterate son of a farmer, was not able to acknowledge and cherish her values

“So, please show that skin some love! Pamper it, baby it, show it off, without shame. Go out without guilt, go on and be bold. Let the whole world know, that the skin you’re in, is a temple to behold” (Zen and Pi). This poem created for women shows that women should love their bodies and appreciate the temples that have been given to them. It does not mean to abuse it by constantly eating unhealthy and not taking care of ones body, but understanding that a little meat on your bones is not the worse thing in the world. “We all struggle with negative thought about our bodies. Glamour magazine launched a survey in 2011 that found 97 percent of women have at least one negative thought about their bodies every single day” (Friedman, Michael). Being that this statistic was found in an article from 3 years ago, I would hope that percentage has gone down. There are plenty people in the world who do not love their bodies because of the body shaming the society places on them. In the end, they continue to harm themselves in order to conform to societies standards. “Accepting the body as it is can be a tough exercise, but it is crucial to overall mental and physical health. Hating our bodies only feeds into a cycle of risky behaviors that reinforce our negative self-assessment. Starts today off right by learning to accept the skin you’re in” (Friedman, Michael). In the movie Real Woman Have Curves there is a stand against what society considers the norm for all woman.

They are often relegated to informal sectors such as family labor and the harvest side of farming. Therefore the poorest of women are normally those that do not own land. These female laborers have even more significant barriers to overcome in their effort to be financially successful. According to Islam, “the greatest obstacle women face is the lack of capital required for building the permanent structure of the enterprise, labor- saving tools to ease domestic burden, and raw materials and growth-enhancing machineries needed to increase productivity in their enterprises” (Islam 12). Bangladesh is not alone in its treatment of women; developing countries around the world are discriminating against women from aspiring to be anything more than housewives with limited rights. Therefore without an intervention to help women escape from this oppression and poverty trap, they will continue to be marginalized and will remain invisible in the specific country’s markets (Islam 11-13).

The purpose of this research, as indicated by the title, “Working Women and their Monetary Control in the Household” is to understand the economic role of working women in the household in contemporary Indian families. The term “working women” here implies to those women who work outside their homes for remunerative purposes, that is, they get a wage in return for their labour. As defined by Wikipedia, a household “consists of one or more people who live in the same dwelling and also share meals or living accommodation and may consist of a single family or some other grouping of people” (“A household”, 2015). Economic activity outside the house has not just been the job of the male members in the household. In rural India, most women who belong to peasant families, work in the fields as well as take charge of the activities of the household. Post the 1990s; more were created as a result of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation (LPG) policies by the government. As a result, more and more women are getting employed in various jobs, whether in the public or private sector or self-employment. This could ultimately imply financial control and independence for such working women. But contrary to common understanding, that working women