In this paper the subject is to examine three social movements involving gender to help demonstrate the impact public opinion has on gender issues. Feminism Social Movement Historically, women have been involved in a number of social movements from political actions involving consumer relations to organizing boycotts. The feminism social movements in America have a long history that significantly affected the public opinion on gender issues. In addition, the feminist movement was met with mixed results from its early beginnings up through modern society today. The feminist movement has impacted many areas in society such as reproductive rights, gender-natural language, and family relationships.
Gender roles have played an important part in society, and today, gender and gender roles are something that is constantly changing and what people perceive those roles to be. Whether people admit to it or not, the mass media influences everything, even subconsciously. It would also seem that the larger and more important the topic is, the more the media involves itself in, and gender roles are becoming a more-talked about topic in the modern world today. All one simply has to do is browse the internet or watch television to realize that gender roles are evolving. It is important to understand how the media is affecting society in matters that are crucial to a person's being and makeup.
The Cocktail Waitress is a research project undertaken to better understand the division of roles, which gender and gender stereotypes heavily influence. As Spradley and Mann (1975) point out, the customs and mores of every culture result in feminine and masculine roles being created; furthermore, even when changes occur in these gender roles, the labels of masculinity and femininity won’t disappear, but simply change, creating new guidelines and expectations for an individual. If this theory of gendered roles is valid, than all aspects of Western culture are not only affected but perhaps even dictated by these roles. As an example outside of sociology, we frequently see polarization in voting trends and media coverage of political campaigns where females are running (Heldman, 2005) (Atkeson, 2008); as well, often in these campaigns, the female candidates will be the one’s specifying their personal traits and even self-handicapping themselves at times (Hendrix and Hirt, 2009). If the presence of the handicap rule is found to be prominent in Brady’s Bar, than the possibility of correlation between how we treat gender at the most basic level (a part time waitress job at Brady’s) and the effects of females with a higher status, may become evident.
Violence against Women: Changes in Women's Status in Canada Abstract Human rights have extended their dimensions to raise the status of women and providing them a privileged status in society. But there are still activities of violent behavior against them. Due to interrelationship of violence against women to social, economic and political growth, the concern of government policy making organizations has increased. Study of literature has been carried out for the causes of violent activities against women and the changes in the status of contemporary women in Canada. The respective paper will be contributive in determining the focus of policy making in Canada as the need of women and challenge of violence against them will be main subject.
In reading the article “Can We Talk”, self-disclosure in a relationship means a lot to both men and women when communicating and interacting with each other. I’ve been married twice- not to the same person twice and being self-disclosed to them was a nightmare. Things that I would share with them would get told to their friends, my family or strangers in general. I cannot say I had a good experience being self-disclosed. The article talks about the gender role between men and women role during intimacy and how affectionate they can become.
I feel that our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity. I feel that we look at males in one light and females in another, we all at some point expect men to be the ones that are tough, and brave and look at women as being emotional. When it could be the other way around. There are still those who feel that women should be home makers and not working to where men should be out bringing home the bacon. Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to our understanding of sexual orientation?
The sitcom does not water down the idea of a lesbian wedding but acts as if it is a part of everyday life. Gender is an issue which is prevalent throughout Seinfeld, where men are more valued than woman. This is evident in an episode where Jerry breaks up with his girlfriend merely because she doesn’t want him saying hello in a particular annoying voice which is poking fun at her, however he would prefer being able to joke about it with Kramer and George. Along with issues explored in Seinfeld, are attitudes, values and beliefs that the sitcom promotes. Freedom and independence are two values highly endorsed by the Australian public, but are also values which are displayed within the sitcom.
Gender is often viewed as a system of meanings and influences, affecting access to power and influencing social status (Crawford, 2003). It has been suggested (Crawford, 2003) that both men and women use humour and jokes in both same-gender and mixed situations in order to create a tool for gender construction. The following study aimed to overcome the controversy in this field somewhat, and hoped to provide a clearer understanding and answer to the recurring question of whether there is a significant amount of gender difference in humour appreciation. We hypothesise that there will be a significant effect of gender on humour type. The null hypothesis states that there will be no significant effect of gender on humour type.
Self-Disclosure 2 Self-Disclosure, Gender, and Communication The article “Can We Talk? Researcher Talks About the Role of Communication in Marriages.” (Schoenberg, 2011) is an eye opening article that applies to the mass majority of people in today's marriages. But, most will not admit it. The article relates to my husband and I in most ways. While we do communicate, it's obviously not the type of communication that is required for us to have a healthy and happy marriage.
They have commercials for men that are rather neutral in emotion, or with fast-paced action. When have you ever seen a commercial in which the man is showing any sign of femininity, that wasn’t meant as a joke? There are, however, ads that show women being athletic and independent. Most of what the media says about women is that they are nice, pretty, delicate, and they wear their emotions on their sleeves. As we grow older, both sexes endure an incredible amount of pressure from the media to fit into their gender roles.