Back in 30 years ago, people were more conservative; homosexual issue was a taboo for most of the people and the whole society in Hong Kong because the gender role for them were blur. However, since Hong Kong people are becoming more open-minded nowadays, they are more willing to talk about homosexual issue. They start to accept that homosexual people are just the same as everyone. The only difference is they are interested in the same gender instead of the opposite gender. The gender role for them can be whatever they want
Those responses, however, usually provoke conflict as they have different meanings. For women, a minimal response of this type means only that she is listening. For men, instead, it means that he is agreeing. So, women will get upset with men who never seem to listen and men on the other hand, will think that the woman is always agreeing and then, changes her mind! It is often explained that the different roles in speech are caused by the social system which gives men the control, and makes women
Feminist views of the family revolve around and understanding of the term patriarchy, which means make domination. Feminists agree that men tend to have a superior position in society and that women suffer oppression because of this. Many feminists argue that the family is a corner stone of this oppression and as such needs careful analysis. Liberal feminists believe that the fanily is gradually becoming less oppressive for women, they cite the move of many families towards more symmetrical roles where men take more part in the domestic roles so that women are no longer burdened by the mundane, repetitive, low status work of cleaning, laundry and childcare work which makes their position in society less powerful than mens. However, radical feminists disagree.
Throughout early history, girls received very few educational opportunities, in society learning was secondary. The idea of a female attending school, especially higher education was backlashes with hostile attitudes (Women in America). Men are viewed themselves as not only superior, but also smarter. From the 17th-19th centuries, women's brains were thought to be smaller than those of men, which is why people thought that women could not learn courses such as science of math. Emma Willard opened a seminary for girls, in Troy, New York, in 1821.
This occurs when she accuses Atticus of knowing nothing because he is deemed too old from her perspective. Ageism is also apparent when Scout’s Uncle Jack would not explain what a whore-lady is because he thought she would be too young to understand. Oppression is also evident in different modern societies today. For instance, there is great depression in the Dominican Republic. We were taught
USING ITEM A, ASSESS THE VALUE OF THE CHIVALRY THESIS IN UNDERSTANDING GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CRIME (21 marks) Pollak (1950) was of the opinion that police and magistrates tended to be more ‘chivalrous’ and ‘lenient’ towards female offenders, resulting in sentence disparities, and as a result, criminal statistics underestimate the amount of female offending. (Item A). Pollak argued that men – namely in this case police officers, magistrates and judges, are socialised to be protective towards women and thus are less likely to chase or prosecute them, and are also treated more leniently in court. Pollak goes further to argue that women are accustomed to deceiving men, for example in faking orgasms during sex, or lying in a relationship to gain material wealth. This means that their crimes, such as poisoning and infanticide, are less easily uncovered (item A) leading to women being underrepresented in criminal statistics.
Not long ago, there was a great difference in the treatment of men and women. Women had no access to positions of power. They thought they were totally dependent on men. The women's movement did have a profound impact upon Australia. Women's role in society was questioned and many official restrictions on women's choices were lifted.
Both men and women have different conversational styles. Men often joke, tease and can often seem big and bad with arrogance, without meaning to be. Women like to look and feel equal. They consider the feelings of others, use more conversational strategies to avoid the idea of having others to think everything is about them. Men and women both feel they deserve more credit for what they do, that others don’t listen and that nothing goes as fast and/smooth as it should.
We as a society may change things, such as laws and how we view women in the workforce, but sexism will always be a part of our society because of stereotyping and men will downplay women in any way we see fit to hold them at a lower lever, because they need power. Men want to feel superior. To give a historical example, jobs that were once held by men, but became dominated by women, wages declined as women became more numerous. This devalued the work that women do both in dollar terms and in more subjective perceptions (pg 276). This issue leads to discrimination against men in the workforce, but this type of discrimination is "positive discrimination" as far as modern feminism is concerned.
The type of things that are associated with prevalence of sexual harassment are gender, marital status and ethnic background. They also believe that educated women as opposed to men are more likely to view a situation as sexual misconduct. The article has two hypotheses, ones begin that men who work in women’s traditional job are less able to determine the situation as a sexual harassment. Men who work in traditional jobs are much more aware of sexual harassment and would make judgments to say they see it in the workplace often. Sex Role spill over theory and contact theory shows females in men traditional jobs have a big chance of getting harassed if there are more men then women their contact will probably end up in some kind of sexual harassment and because of this more women witness their co-workers making reports of harassment.