Note: It is not that I like to be liked by others; it does not matter. I have to be satisfied with myself. Consequently, people cannot live and act just to please others. I would like to accomplish my aims, and of course, I would like to be a successful person.
1. Describe the Heidi and Howard experiment. What does it show about gender? Why is it significant? Heidi and Howard experiment is a study realized to a group of students, where all of them have to read a story about the successful trajectory of an individual in the business field. To start with the process, the group has to be divided in two. Then, the first half of the students have to read the story about Howard. Unlike them, the other half of the students have to read about Heidi.
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Sandberg discusses likeability and success at work and at school as being mutually exclusive for women. If you’re a woman, have you been unpopular because you won at sports, excelled in the classroom or were successful at work? Do you know anyone for whom this has been the case? If you are a man, have these qualities affected your likeability negatively or positively?
I did not win anything, so I am not a popular person. I do not know someone directly, but I know women who won Olympic medals, and they are not popular anymore. On the contrary, some men, who won, are still popular; for example, we can see them on TV shows such as the special guest or working like commentators. I am a woman, but I know that man can be easily popular on school or work for any contribution like being in the football team, even if they never win. For many men, having a quality is a positive
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To have a solution to this misunderstood, women have to break this parameter; we have to think more in ourselves.
6. Is it possible for women to achieve both “success and likeability? What is the suggestion at the end of the chapter? How do you feel about that suggestion?
Of course, there is a possibility to achieve success and likeability. Most of the women have one of these characteristics, and many of them have both. However, those women do not make public their success. We have to be more confident and be more open to the public. People have to know who we are and what we are doing. Women have to break their own glass ceiling then we can see our success and likeability.
Freewrite again on being liked.
Being liked is not a requirement, but it is a necessity for some individuals. We do not have to be liked for many people just for a few. The love and comprehension of our lovely family and friends are the base and support to continue our daily life. Create a dream and work for it until get it done is the motivation that everyone needs. Put together all the beauty moments on our life could be the motor to follow our dreams. Being liked comes by itself, we do not have to look too much to obtain it. Start from being liked for yourself , then you will be liked for
Although society claims that we are in the age where there is gender equality, it is clear that women are still not of equal standing than men. In our society, women are of lower status than men. Such as in the workplace, a male employee’s project proposal is favored over a female employee’s proposal because a male superior believes that women cannot construct ideas as well as male employees. This is a result of how our culture has influence our view that women are less superior than men. Our male dominant culture taught us that women are not as capable as men are and that between the two genders, the man is the superior.
We mistrust our bodies and have this constant urge to question whether we are capable of achieving certain tasks. “Typically, the feminine body underuses its real capacity, both as the potentiality of its physical size and strength and as the real skills and coordination that are available to it” (148). We seem to take into practice a certain “ambiguous transcendence”, which simply means that we lack bodily trust. Young uses the example of when men and women hike. A man usually speeds through the trail, not worrying about the many dangers that can come if he steps on the wrong rock or slips on a tree branch. A woman, in contrast, would analyze every aspect of the trail and worrying about whether she is capable of completing the run or not. She displays “discontinuous unity”, in which all this divided attention that is being given to that dangers of the trail are causing her to be taken out of the flow. “Our attention is often divided between the aim to be realized in motion and the body that must accomplish it, while at the same time saving itself from harm” (). When it comes to “inhibited intentionality”, women seem to underestimate their abilities and convince themselves that they are not capable of doing a certain task. There’s this perception that a women “simultaneously reaches toward a projected end with an ‘I can’ and withholds its full bodily to that end in a self-imposed ‘I cannot’.”
My hypothesis for the penny cleaning with the chemicals experiment was accepted. The hypothesis was; “If a penny is placed in salt and vinegar, then it will get cleaner than the other chemicals being used”. The data used from the experiment that supports the hypothesis was that the salt and vinegar chemical cleaned a penny the best it had a 90 out of 100.
Identify the hypothesis (testable question) that the study was trying to answer and describe the methods of research used in each study.
In a society constructed around the principles and authority of men, women oftentimes find themselves entrapped in an overly passive existence, resulting in lack of initiative in the outcome of their lives.
The experiment is taken according to proper step as mentioned in methodology of the study described in chapter three. The result and their comparisons are described through table and figures as following. Finally the experimental results are summarized at the end of the chapter.
Society stereotypes women in almost all social situations, including in the family, media, and the workplace. Women are often regarded as being in, “Second place” behind men. However, these stereotypes are not typically met by the modern day woman....
Women in today’s society seem to be having a very difficult time expressing themselves without dealing with lots of criticism. Common values are standing in the way of women’s drive toward molding themselves into whatever they desire. Our culture has made standards about how should women look, act, and conduct themselves that greatly limits what they can do, and still gain respect. Martin S. Fiebert and Mark W. Meyer state that, “[there are] more negative [gender] stereotypes for men than for women.” This idea doesn’t seem to have a great amount of validity in our present society. Society set certain standards that men are supposed to live up to such as strength and confidence, which are more behavioral characteristics. Women seem to be more trapped than men by societies standards because they are supposed to live up to standards dealing with beauty and size, which are more physical characteristics These specific guidelines have been set by society that are sometimes unattainable for a majority of women. The women that follow the specific criteria are greatly respected, and the ones that try and be innovative usually are criticized if not disliked.
For a long time, the popular myth of success and that of gender have shaped humans’ minds and behaviors in a certain way. They set up a certain behavior model and provide people with an idealized reference for living their lives. However, people put too much emphasis on the bright side of these two widespread but outdated beliefs, and surround themselves in ideal images constructed by the myths. With humans and society marching on, the age-old and deep-rooted myths are not completely suitable anymore. The old fashioned myths have become certain clichés. They sometimes conceal important social realities and convey a false image of what people really think and do. The dissonance between myth and reality sometimes disillusions people and may bring worse outcomes to the society. Wayne Dyer, an internationally renowned author declares, “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” Although part of the myths is still valuable and instructive, in order to make them more tenable, people need to be cautious and critical and be aware of their weakness. Success should be defined not only by wealth and reputation, as the current myth states, but also by personal happiness, which can be achieved through the combination of honesty, hard work, opportunities and s...
Within the target site of the experiment, researchers wanted to answer their hypothesis; hypothesis was that increased police
One thousand years go by and an abundant amount of people still view women in a stereotypical type of way. On the opposing view, if women did not overstretch the slightest of things, this wouldn’t be such an enormous issue. Women may be overreacting to what the media has to say about them. It is not affecting everybody but the vast majority of successful women from continuing to moving forward, said Marianne Schnall. Important to realize, women are capable of doing jobs men can do.
... chauvinism. It is also important to think back about men’s absolute power in the past over fields such as medicine or social life of women. Their chauvinism led them to wrong analysis or treatments of illnesses like the resting cure or isolation of women for a supposed nervous problem. However, the underestimation of women’s capabilities led to a great struggle to get out of the wallpaper that pictured women as the weak sex. It is thanks to great women who stood up for their rights in the past and still speak up through their legacies that women of today and tomorrow will remain strong and aware of a certain answer when the questions of what is one to do arises: there is always something left to do. The time when women were not respected was left in the past. Now, it is not time for questions; now it is time for answers and actions speak louder than words.
Although women today are less restricted than they were in the past, they are under no less pressure to conform to an ideal. Instead, the ideal woman has become more complicated. A woman must be successful in a nontraditional area — be it
Women – beautiful, strong matriarchal forces that drive and define a portion of the society in which we live – are poised and confident individuals who embody the essence of determination, ambition, beauty, and character. Incomprehensible and extraordinary, women are persons who possess an immense amount of depth, culture, and sophistication. Society’s incapability of understanding the frame of mind and diversity that exists within the female population has created a need to condemn the method in which women think and feel, therefore causing the rise of “male-over-female” domination – sexism. Sexism is society’s most common form of discrimination; the need to have gender based separation reveals our culture’s reluctance to embrace new ideas, people, and concepts. This is common in various aspects of human life – jobs, households, sports, and the most widespread – the media. In the media, sexism is revealed through the various submissive, sometimes foolish, and powerless roles played by female models; because of these roles women have become overlooked, ignored, disregarded – easy to look at, but so hard to see.
...and goal oriented people you will most likely get the best out of life. If you decide to surround yourself with negative people who don’t have anything to look forward to in life, then you’re setting yourself up to be unsuccessful. Those negative people will try their hardest to bring you down with them.