Week 7 Assignment 2 Through history women and the GLBT, community has been looked down upon as inferior to men. As time has proven to be a good thing for women especially the last decade because it has been a time of great advancement for women in the workforce and the outlook that society has on them. I think that people in the United States are also becoming more comfortable with the GLBT community. More people are able to express themselves for who they really are and people are becoming more open to the idea of love without limits. I think it is important to look back from where we have come and see the progress that is being made from where we started to where we are today.
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
As a result, women seek health care in much greater proportion than men. Men, on the other hand, traditionally shy away from the health-care system, and we are only now starting to understand why that is. Men tend to view partners and friends as primary health sources. When they do reach a physician, men tend to focus more on physical problems, and are less likely to discuss deeper emotional issues -- particularly if the physician is female. Perhaps most influential are perceptions around male masculinity.
However, when the 1990’s began a lot of feminist movements began that spoke out to the fact that women should have more of a role in society than just to cook and clean. This is when women started competing with men for jobs and education like they never had before. “Young men…have been challenged by women in areas that our fathers and grandfathers never were—in education, the workplace, business, the professions” (Katz 17). For a lot of men, this is a difficult thing to deal with. Being in a position where a male is not the dominant sex can really make one begin to doubt their masculinity.
This is when women began to express themselves freely. Before this time women were always subordinate to men. living in the image of what the man wanted, as opposed to themselves. Which has not completlely not gone away, til this very day women are under men. There's never been a female president, and typically men get paid more, but society has loosened its grips
Women are now accepted into traditionally labeled male occupations, and men are being more accepted in traditional female roles. Although we do strive for equability, males are still expected to be dominate in most social structures, leading to the oppression of women in some ways. A male’s traditional role is to be the strength for him and his family. Females are no longer staying at home mothers but employed mothers, providing for their family with long lasting careers or jobs. Our women have fought for a difference in treatment, which differs from the Amish women who didn't question the role that they played in their
They have asked themselves what could be done to become more like men. As a challenge, nothing comes free and easy. It has been hard for women, as yet they have not come close to the race of men. And as the race went on, women have begun to realize that the role of a feminine life is the one they want to live. They have started to realize that a diverse and mixed work zone is a good place and feeling, being able to accomplish what some men
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.
Yet as women’s position in America improved, there was still a disparity in the power distribution among genders. Men were still earning more and seen as the dominant gender, and unfortunately there wasn’t much women could do to change that. Some women figured if that was the world they were born in, they could use it to their advantage and depend on men in order to achieve wealth,
All of the lesser parts are still expected to be flawless, toned and tanned but the majority of what society expects of women comes from their legs and bust. Overall appearance is a lot more important to women than it is to men. This is due largely to the role society still places women in: a possession of the man, meant to make his life easier. They aren’t expected to be smart, outgoing, or contribute to society in any way, expect to be beautiful enough for a perfect, capable man to claim them so they can get married and have