Injulity Of Women: The Inequality Between Men And Women

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Women give up their independence and power to men. This submission reflects the power imbalance in our society. The inequality between men and women is still present in today’s culture and workforce. Men are usually described as strong, rational, courageous, competitive and dominating, while women are perceived as weak, emotional, cowardly, cooperative, and nurturing. This description gives a dilemma of stereotypes and identity towards each gender.
Women have made improvement in their lifestyles, now having jobs and being able to support themselves. However, more responsibilities are put onto women, having to choose between family or a graduate degree. Women are faced with this dilemma often choosing family over education, “the expectations …show more content…

“Boys can walk wherever they want to, work where they want; boys get attacked too, but boys aren’t targets for men the way girls are so girls have to be more careful” (S. Cameron, 1909, p. D8). Females are always told that they must be careful of their surroundings at all times, males were instructed to be strong and defend for the females. These stereotypes were taught to society, although that this may be untrue, females are blamed for being raped because of the way they dressed or because they were in an area alone when they should have been walking in a group or with a male. The public rarely sees males as the problem, they would frequently tell women to change their ways, to be more aware, to cover themselves up. We should focus on how identities are constructed through early childhood development, explicit socialization, modeling, and adult experiences, paying close attention to the internalization of social mores. Women and men choose to do gender-typical behavior cross-situationally and over time, we must focus on such individual explanations. Attention has already been given to gender socialization and the individualist belief for gender. The most commonly referred to explanations in popular culture depend on sex-role training, teaching boys and girls their culturally appropriate roles (B. J. Risman, 2004, …show more content…

With time bringing their new selves to “social interaction and create new cultural expectations”. With the social movement activist they can create changes “such as career ladders between women’s quasi-administrative jobs and actual management, opening up opportunities that otherwise would have remained closed, thus creating change on the institutional dimension”. Girls raised in the next generation, may have opportunities in these workplaces, having possibilities. We need to also study the change and “equality when it occurs rather than only documenting inequality” (B. J. Risman, 2004,

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