Yahaira Solorzano Analysis

Whereas in recent decades major strides toward gender equality have been made, sociologists are quick to point out that much remains to be done if inequalities in the United States are ever to be eliminated. Behind much of the inequalities seen in education, the workplace, and politics is sexism, or prejudice and discrimination because of gender. Fundamental to sexism is the assumption that men are superior to women.

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

Women have virtually the same rights as men. However, the fault needing to be recognized in today’s society is the way that women are treated. Even in simple areas, such as jobs, women are put on the back burner. A woman is able to become a CEO of a company, nonetheless, she will struggle twice as hard as a man would. Even as an employee, women are statistically paid less than men are.

Sexism is the ideology that maintains that one sex is inherently inferior to the other. Sexism or discrimination based on gender has been a social issue for many years; it is the ideology that one sex is superior or inferior to the other. Sexism does not only affect females, but also males. Men are very often victimized by social stereotypes and norms based on gender expectations. Sexism has appears in almost all social institutions including family, the media, religion, sports, the military, politics, and the government. However, although both genders are affected, men have benefited from sexism the most (Thompson 300-301.)

Today in society it can be agreed that women have indeed gained many rights that were not accessible to them 100 years before. Although, despite the mentality that men and women are treated equally there are still very many discrepancies between the treatment of genders. Many of which can be attributed to the expectations placed on the genders, gender roles between both genders, and women in the workplace. These issues have caused a great rift to form between the genders, a rift that has caused one gender to claim dominance over the other and this can develop a sense of inferiority by the submissive gender.

She didn't understand the minds of her employer as they told her that she needed to “wait till she was worth any money” because she had only been in America for a month. She thought she had finally earned her wages. She put her heart on her sleeve and she was let down, she really believed that she was finally going to be worth something in this new land. Her trust in working with “Americans” was completely vanished. “Now rejecting false friendships from higher-ups in America, I turned back to the Ghetto.

The story “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin explores different ideas of feminism because the woman in this story are viewed as fragile creatures that need to be treated differently than men. It all begins with a man on a mission to deliver a serum to group of very sick people; the spaceship he is driving is only given a certain amount of fuel to barely make it to their destination, so there can’t be any extra weight. While on the spaceship, the pilot realizes that there is another human being on the ship: anybody who stows away on any frontier ship must be killed on scene and disposed from the ship so they wouldn’t burn any extra fuel. After finding out that there was another living being on the ship the pilot knows he must kill “him,”

Martin Luther King Jr. once said “our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” However, I will not be silent. Sexism is a thing of the past, present, and future. Women have never been seen as equal to men. This idea and concept affect how women carry out their lives. Women may act different or speak different just based on society's thoughts about their gender. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and in today’s society it is clear that because of women’s perceived “weakness”, men now dominate women legally, physically and financially.

Have you ever noticed how women are below men in society, whether it’s politically or financially. This all starts with women’s rights of equality and making America a place free of racism and inequality. Women are as hard working, efficient, and spiritually strong as men.

Women have always been portrayed as inferior to men, a myth that can be traced back to Christian theology during the 4th century. A 13th- century theologian, said that woman was "created to be man 's helpmeet, but her unique role is in conception . . . since for other purposes men would be better assisted by other men." (Women 1) Even during the 1960’s, the antiquated idea that a woman was inferior to a man was widely accepted. It wasn’t until approximately 40 years prior to the 1960’s that woman acquired freedom and mobility thanks to the automobile industry.

Have you ever heard a man say “I am a victim of gender inequality” or have you heard about a campaign to help men get through inequality? Without you even telling me, I already know what your answer will be….no, you haven’t. Why? Well, it is because men face a different type of inequality I like to call silent sexism, a lot of you are probably sitting there and wondering to yourself “What is he talking about”. I am talking about those things that have been synced into our lives that we don’t even register it as being sexist.

Girls are always told that we can be whatever we want to be. Whether that is a doctor, lawyer, teacher, engineer, or even a clown. That is true, but it is difficult for most women to achieve these goals because of a misogynistic society that prevents them from flourishing. Even though many people think that society has come a long way in making men and women equal, women are still treated as lesser people and make seventy nine cents to every dollar a man makes for doing the same jobs. I think that the reputation of women as second class citizens needs to change and the only way that can happen is for women to stop tearing each other down and stick together to demand equal rights for women in our backyard and all over the world.

America was born on the idea of freedom and equality, the idea that “All men are created equal”. But what about women? Why do women not deserve the freedom and power that men have? Ever since humanity existed, society viewed women as inferior both physically and mentally. Several sources, including the bible portrays women as people who are made to serve men. In Josh Harris’s book “Boy Meets Girl” he states that ,God made Eve for Adam and her role was “...to complement, nourish, and help her husband.”. Even in the end, Eve was the first to give in to her temptation to take the first bite of the apple. That is how society has always viewed women in the past and continues even today, weaker, gives in faster

Throughout much of history, women have been viewed as inferior to men. In the 1800s and early 1900s, women were not allowed to hold the same jobs or

Women have always been seen as a lower social class than males and are therefore identified as having limited privileges and rights compared to men.