Correlation Of Gender Roles And Fashion In Star Trek

Star Trek The Original Series

Star Trek The Original Series is seen as sexist in very many ways because, the types of clothes that are worn between the males and the females, also how men and women are characterized and what Position/Ranking they have.

The males and females are seen wearing different types clothes than one another. In the article “Fashion’s Final Frontier”: The Correlation of Gender Roles and Fashion in Star Trek by Katharina Andres,

Mainly, the male characters such as Kirk or Spock wearing long-sleeved shirts that show their rank, black pants, and black boots. Uhura, like all female crew members, generally wears mini skirts or rather mini-dresses, with an asymmetrical plunging neckline and go-go boots, an “apparel less than

The women's outfits are less practical than the male outfits. “The women’s dresses are “less” functional uniforms than the shirt and pants of the men, which implies that women are “less” functional as well.” The women are not the ones in battle because the will have a harder time outrunning the enemy in battle because they are not wearing the correct footwear. The men have more practical outfits because they are seen in the front of the battle.

The Alien characters are the ones seen wearing the least amount of clothing. In the article “Fashion’s Final Frontier”: The Correlation of Gender Roles and Fashion in Star Trek by Katharina Andres,

Yet, the sexual revolution and the changing lifestyles of the decade has also arrived, but in the form of often “alien” women, who are presented in exclusively little clothing, some wearing no more than bathing suits or bikinis, while at the same time representing the ideal of youth and beauty. The newfound openness in clothing reflected the openness in behavior.

In the episode, Elaan of Troyius, princess Elaan of Troyius is on Captain Kirk's ship in body armor that barely covers her

There is a different in ranking and positions between male and females. Then men are seen on screen for more time than the women because they are either the Captain, the Commander, the Lieutenant and the Engineer. In the chapter Gender Identity in Star Trek, Ferguson, Ahkenazi, and Schultz reflected in the roles and professions of the main characters, “The leadership of the Enterprise and her fellow spacecraft was unrelentingly male, with women found in a traditional pink collar or helping professions.” All of the characters aboard the Starship Enterprise are males.

The females are more of the time the secondary roles, like doctors or medics. The females are usually not the ones leading or commanding people because they are seen as inferior to the men. In the chapter Gender Identity in Star Trek, Ferguson, Ahkenazi, and Schultz Gives us an insight on