Another assumption is that women often took jobs for the wrong reasons (Gunn and Gullickson, 2007). That statement suggests that Karen’s gender may have been the reason she did not recognize her motivator instead of the fact that she may have just never thought about it. If a person obtains a job that will not gratify their main motivator then that person will be unsatisfied with their job. By making this assumption the article also implies that most women are not satisfied at work .Even though assumptions are drawn from this article, there are a few hypotheses made by the Pursuit of Unhappiness. Hypotheses, Variable, and Operational Definitions One hypothesis
She blames men for giving them the place in society but also puts it on women’s shoulders by saying, “Only in recent years has woman's position as the gentler and weaker half of the human family been emphatically and generally questioned. Men assumed that this was woman's place; woman herself accepted it”4. She does begin to display some energy for what could change minds of women that accepted their submissive role in society. “Since they were given the role, women have still rallied and protested to rights of men. Despite the winning of voting, property and working rights, they have accomplished nothing relative to their vital factors of their existence”.5 Her belief is that they are there to lead the movements of bettering society by voluntarily bringing in only those who are fit to undo the wrong that they have allowed to come about.
They do not have to stay in the house all day with the children and obey their husbands. They can go where they want and do what they want(that's within the law). Women are also free to wear pants, short skirts, short and loose hair, and act how they want in public. Though, being from the time period she was, Stanton may not approve of modern fashion trends, but she might be happy knowing that women today have the choice to do so. As long as women have been mistreated, they have fought for the same rights that their male counterparts had.
Let’s Understand Each Other Better The article "Sex, lies, and Conversation," written by the professor of linguistics Deborah Tannen, explains us about the many dissimilarities amongst men and women that occur in the way they communicate with each other. It explains to the reader why there is a lack of communication and understanding between a man and a woman who aim to pursue different objectives through conversations. The article is a very effective passage that provides logical reasoning to support its claim of developing cross cultural understanding in order to avoid the clash of genders that is caused by failed conversations. Most of the women complain that men are not good conversational partners at home. According to the females, men do not listen or talk to them and do not contribute in day to day discussions.
These examples just shows how confusing it is in identifying sexual harassment today. How would you answer Limbaugh’s points if you were arguing for the opposition to each of the two points you have selected? For the first point, I would argue that women should not have so much power over men because men were created as the head and as such women should respect their authority. For the second point, I would say that sexual harassment should be limited to only sexual behaviors that are forced unto women and not be based on a man trying to win a woman over by his advances. Sexual harrassment refers to sexual actions.
Is it fair for women to have the same rights as men? Some people would think so. Some cultures have strict rules where the women are not allowed to play the roles of men. Sometimes there is a society that men actually play the role of a woman. Just depends where in the world you live.
Throughout history, the differences between men and women have been socially defined and distorted through a lens clouded by sexism, in which men have assumed superiority over their female counterparts, and have attempted to keep it that way through suppression and domination. Men have assumed this position for centuries, and time seems to have hard-wired ideas that women are not capable of doing anything of supreme importance into the male persona. However, the ignorance of men seems to have blinded them, thus, providing the unsuspected women with a great opportunity to take advantage, and finally prove themselves worthy of the possession of power. This socially unexpected shift of power is illustrated in Susan Glaspell's “Trifles”. Through the fact that Minnie Foster murders her husband, and the other two women in the story exonerate her by withholding critical evidence from the men, it is evident that the true power in this play lies in the women's hands.
In other parts of the world sexism is more prominent because males have dominant roles over women and therefore look down upon them. Not only is there sexism, but there is ambivalent sexism which is defined as sexism directed against women based on both positive and negative attitudes (hostility and benevolence) rather than uniform dislike. To better understand ambivalent sexism I took a test that would rate my hostile and ambivalent sexism. The Ambivalent sexism inventory measure how sexist you are towards men and women. My scores from this test were quite surprising to me.
As the objective of impartiality between men and women is ever closer we are also losing our attentiveness of essential differences. In many circles of culture, politically correct judgment is obliterating essential dialogue as well as our understanding of the similarities and differences between men and women. The mental picture of equality between men and women has lessened the
“Feminists can produce a positive stereotype, considering that women work just as hard as a man, inside and outside of the home. It’s unfair that women who participate in the feminist movement are accused of being butch or trying to live in a “man’s world”. They are not trying to live in a man’s world; they just want to co-exist be equals, not dominant, like men feel they need to.” Sanbonmatsu, K.