Moreover, men see themselves superior than woman because of patriarchy system. In the film, McMurphy did not listen to Miss Ratchet as a leader and is against all of her decisions as well. McMurphy refuse to listen to her because she is a female. She may be a leader in the mental institution but not to his
Hence, the women who Hebson interviewed were more likely to give answers that were more in depth and valid. However, Hebson's research method can be criticised by positivists for being unscientific as they argue that unstructured interviews lack a number of characteristics which they see as essential in scientific research, such as reliability and objectivity. Hebson's unstructured interviews may lack reliability as each woman that she interviewed is different and it depends on the unique relationship established between the interviewer and interviewee. Her research cannot be replicated by another sociologist. Hebson's research methods may lack objectivity as she had a personal relationship with the interviewees.
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
Another prospect is that in the lack of discrimination gender differences can appear. Men and women are clearly different from birth, but their differences in interests, talents, attitudes whether arising from birth or learning all plays a part in the big story. Pinker’s third thought behind women’s absence is the child-rearing idea. Women, who embrace most of the responsibility when it comes to raising children, cannot simply coexist with professions in the science field which are so demanding in time. Pinker concludes his commentary with psychologist Philip Tetlock’s argument dealing with taboo.
Education is needed weather you’re a male or female because gender doesn’t play the role in the education life. The brain is what gets you to get through school because that is what helps you think differently and wisely. Education was not given to women because they were
Such as women can not perform manual work as well as men, on the other hand, a man’s entire chemistry is different allowing him to be less emotional than a woman. Jane Addams and her colleague Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House a place for down and out women. Jane treated these women as friends and ignoring their faults, became very close to these women. Being close to these women allowed Jane to understand their struggle but much of the information she gathered remained unpublished. She saw social differentiation as a block that society needed to get over, infuriately she herself was a victim.
Evening Things Out Affirmative action in the eyes of some can be considered to be the compromise for reparations. To others it can be looked at as an opportunity for women to be looked at as equals in comparison to their male colleagues. But those who don’t fall into either of those categories look at affirmative action as reverse discrimination or racism. There is an argument that there is truth in all of those statements, but it is more prevalent in the first two than the latter. Minorities were never given the appropriate chance they deserve, and women still can’t get the respect they deserve in the workplace.
The dual labour market is divided into two sectors; the primary and the secondary sector. The primary sector mostly consisting of the high-tech jobs with better pay. Whilst the secondary sector would be mostly made up of service jobs, where the pay was low and there wasn’t a high chance of a promotion. Within this dual labour market; women tended to experience patriarchy where the primary sector would mostly consist of men and women unable to reach those jobs because of the ‘glass ceiling’ were left with lower paid jobs which made them more likely to experience poverty within their life time. Because women had always kept up the tradition role of a house wife whose only job was to stay at home, take care of the kids within the informal sector.
However, politically and economically men have sustain their dominance. For years, in the not so distant past, women were prohibited to get jobs let alone an education, if allowed they would only be permitted to work as teachers or secretaries. Anything above that woman were classified as not intelligent enough or to fragile. The differences between the sexes were socially defined and vague through the eyes of chauvinism in which men assumed authority over women and maintained it through control. As the objective of impartiality between men and women is ever closer we are also losing our attentiveness of essential differences.
Gender discrimination in the workplace did exist and still continues in one form or the other, this in fact obviously ignored by Summers. Gender difference is the product of gender discrimination or gender inequality, not the other around. In fact, gender difference is the main outcome of gender discrimination. There are two reasons for gender difference, first and also the most important is the nurturing climate, the second is cultural differences. In most cultures, men are encouraged to be stoic and to prove their masculinity; on the other hand, women need to be passive, helpless and dependent.