Gender Inequality still exists
"Is there any difference between the education acquired by men and women in college?" My answer to that question would be that although the "brick wall" ( Forum 1) in education has been broken, we still have another, invisible barrier called the "glass ceiling." ( Forum 1) Most people would say that education has changed a great deal since women began to attend institutions of higher learning. Is this completely true?
Women have undoubtedly made "Substantial educational progress." ( Women 3) We should not forget that the large gaps between the education levels of women and men in the early 1970's essentially disappeared for the younger generation. Females on average outperform males in reading and writing, and take more credits in academic subjects. They are more likely than males to attend college after high school, and are as likely to graduate with a post-secondary degree. All of these accomplishments have accumulated with time and effort from women that have made a difference. It has taken years to get to where we are, but how far have we really come?.
. Seventy percent of illiterate people throughout the world are females. That is a shockingly large amount of women that suffer the consequences of social stratification. Why are women given the role of the caretaker and not the scholar? Why are only ten percent of women in the world holding some type of legislative seat? Throughout history women have been brought up to be mothers and have been forced to practice staying home taking care of their children. According to history, women have only begun their battle with sexism.
About one hundred years ago women were still claimed as a man's property. They had no right to vote, they could not be part of a jury and had no rights to property. Not too long ago in the nineteen fifties women could not even own a credit card in their name. Where are we today? Has it really improved very much? I don't think it has, women still can't vote in some Arabic countries. Sexism affected the development and socioeconomic improvement of women in the past. Today it is holding back bright futures for many young women everywhere.
"The first women to enter this male-ordered campus were venturing into unmapped terrain." (Sadker 229) Not only does gender inequality li...
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...discussions. Another reason for this is that there are more male professors in colleges and universities and it is even more difficult to find women professors at the most prestigious universities.
Throughout these silent scenarios of sexism in the classroom, more and more women today are being robbed of "knowledge and self-esteem." ( Sadker 234) These young women slowly lose their confidence to respond to the professors during class discussions. Only because they feel that they are not as intelligent as their male counterparts. Why must a woman answer a question with a phrase like: "This probably isn't right but" and "I'm not sure if this is what you want, but"? (Sadker 235)
The truth is that not much has changed, although today there are more women than men in college, inequality in educational opportunities still stagnates the growth of intellectual youth. The biggest problem that we face in a college or university is being a woman. Today there are more women that have acquired degrees in the "hard sciences",
( Forum 4) but statistics still show the gap between the sexes has endured until the present time.
In this scholarly journal based on the author’s qualitative research, Allan and Madden attempt to discover if “chilly classrooms” exist in higher education, such as a college. The term “chilly classroom” was derived from Roberta M. Hall and Bernice R. Sandler who believe women are provided the same education at school, however, they are treated differently from men. I would use this source to emphasize the division of gender in education, and how teacher’s perspectives can be biased towards male students simply because we’re used to the oppression, enforcing it as a social norm. However, the results have a drawback since they came from only one university and didn’t include females in STEM courses.
Domestic violence happens all around the media, not just in the home of the victim but also in public places such as schools, parks, workplaces, etc., Domestic violence also happens in relationships and families. Domestic violence is very wrong and needs to be stopped because 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence in their lives. Domestic violence doesn’t just happen with women, men can also be a victim of domestic violence.
“In the United States and several other countries, women now actually surpass men in educational achievements” (Josh, “Harvard Summer School”). Some women are more educated and qualified for most
Domestic violence is defined as the abusive behavior in a relationship between two people that leads to mental, emotional, or physical harm (“What is Domestic Violence?” Para 1). When an individual feels like they cannot see life without their significant other, that significant other selfishly uses it to their advantage to create power and victimize the other. In the United States alone, there are nearly ten million cases of abuse each year (“Statistics” Line 2). As toxic relationships continue to be an issue within our society, artists Eminem and Rihanna create a song and corresponding video titled “Love the Way You Lie” and use it to share what these types of relationships are really like. The artists use the song and video to raise awareness about the cycle of abuse as they place their audience into their reality of a relationship involving domestic violence.
A significant contributor to the modernist movement was a woman by the name of Mina Loy, who had written the Feminist Manifesto in 1914 (Lewis). Mrs. Loy had originally written the Feminist Manifesto in retort to F. T Marinetti’s “Manifesto of Futurism,” in which she both praised and criticized Marinetti’s ideas on the abandonment of traditional standards and institutions. Mrs. Loy focused her manifesto on the “absolute demolition (Kocher) “of any and all psychological and social institutions in which restrained the rights of women, or promoted inequality. While Mrs. Loy had written her Feminist Manifesto in order to bring awareness to gender inequality during 1914, some of her founding principles can still resonate with the female population in today’s society
Despite women outnumbering men in U.S. colleges and the implementation of legislation like the 1963 Equal Pay Act the pay differences persist. According to some the pay gap persists because:
Education was sex segregated for hundreds of years. Men and women went to different schools or were physically and academically separated into “coeducational” schools. Males and females had separate classrooms, separate entrances, separate academic subjects, and separate expectations. Women were only taught the social graces and morals, and teaching women academic subjects was considered a waste of time.
Their desires would start to increase, because they would notice the differences between the freedom men received, and the lack of freedom women obtained. Therefore, Loy declares that women need an identity makeover to remove this feeling of desire that seeks unnecessary pleasures, such as equality —“NO scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition, will bring about Reform, the only method is Absolute Demolition” (153). Here, she clearly states that nothing old or traditional will lead to change. That is because tradition rests in and relies on customs and beliefs that have been around for centuries. Have you ever tried to get a grandparent to budge in their opinion of something? It is next to impossible, because their opinion has a lot to do with how and what they were raised to believe. So, in order to bring about change, women must bulldoze over tradition, by ridding it of gender constructs, and the false perceptions of womanhood in order to modernize society’s view of men and
It is only recently that sociology has begun to explore the topic of gender. Before this, inequalities within society were based primarily on factors such as social class and status. This paper will discuss gender itself: what makes us who we are and how we are represented. It will also explore discrimination towards women throughout history, focusing mainly on women and the right to vote, inequalities between males and females in the work place and how gender is represented in the media.
It appears that despite women’s huge gains in their educational attainment and sustained efforts, advancements concerning gender equality are askew
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In the 1960s the civil rights movement inspired a new women’s movement, and women began to speak out for fair treatment at school and in the work place. Before these movement girls were warned about math classes being too difficult and were told that a college or a graduate degree was a waste of time. Boys were encouraged to study math and science to ready them for careers. Girls were supposed to be good in English and prepare to become wives and mothers. (Blumenthal 1) Past Generations that grew up with the development of education would now wonder why the genders would want to be separate when once they fought to be together.
The first all female schools began in the early 1800’s. These academies favored more traditional gender roles, women being the home makers and the men being the bread winners. The first generation of educated women was the result of single-sex colleges in 1873. Wendy Kaminer, an investigative journalist, states that “single-sex education was not exactly a choice; it was a cultural mandate at a time when sexual segregation was considered only natural” (1). Women of this time were technically not allowed to attend school with males. Feminists of this time worked hard to integrate the school system and by the early 1900’s, single sex classrooms were a thing of the past. In 1910, twenty-seven percent of colleges were for men only, fifteen percent were for women only and the remainders were coed. Today, women outnumber men among college graduates (Kaminer 1). After all the hard work of early feminists, there are thousands of people today who advocate bringing back the single sex classroom.
If one takes a closer look at the issues surrounding the differences between the male and female roles in the workforce and in education, one will notice that women tend to be one step below men on the "status" or "importance" ladder.
My attendance in high school was not as high as my teachers may have wanted it to be. I found myself yearning for more and finishing my work too quickly. When I went I tried to soak up as much as I could but it wasn’t really until my college courses that I found that knowledge I wanted and regained a strong desire to attend class. While I have never missed classes unless terribly sick, I have been tardy a handful of times. Since honestly is the best policy I cannot fail to ignore that. Sometimes I was not on time due to work other times I simply left the house later than I expected to. It was not enough times to cause a problem, but it definitely has made me more aware of my punctuality.