What Is The Difference Between Gender And The American Dream Essay

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In 1920 women gained the right to vote, allowing women to have more opportunities but still not as many opportunities as men have. Throughout the decades since women gained the right to vote equality between men and women has only increased but unfortunately has not reached the point where they are completely equal. Sociologists have proven that men have the idea that they are superior to women and because of this idea equality between men and women could potentially never happen. Men get paid more, have more opportunities in the workplace and many more advantages that women don’t have solely because they were born a different gender. Along with having advantages men also have a different way of thinking than women do. Men have the idea of …show more content…

Gender and the American Dream” written by Sandra L. Hanson, who is a professor of sociology, explains the differences between men and women’s American Dreams. Hanson explores how men and women tend to believe as well as value different things depending on their gender. Hanson brings up the idea that inequality is a factor of how women perceive their American Dream and the less successful a woman is the less she believes in the idea that the American Dream is achievable by everyone. Men tend to have a more materialistic view on the American Dream because they define the dream as being as successful as possible. While women define the dream more moralistically and about what they want for their families. Hanson finds “although women and men believe in the American Dream, women are slightly less likely to define it in material ways and less likely to think that the Dream is possible.” (99) Since men have allowed the Dream to be based materialistically women are less likely to believe in it. This shows how the inequality between women and men change the way women view the American Dream because if men didn’t allow the stereotype of the Dream being materialistic to happen then more women would believe in the

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