I Love Lucy: How does Lucy tend to needlessly complicate situations? Are the effects of this habit always negative?
In season 1, episode 35, Lucy complicated things by putting pressure on Ricky to ask his boss for a raise. As Lucy started to complaint about needing more money to buy things that she wants. So a dinner was planned with Ricky’s boss and after the dinner Lucy pressure Ricky in asking for a raise. Ricky went along with Lucy’s planned which did not work, instead Ricky ended up losing his job as he was pressured that he has other jobs offers that would pay that what he was currently earning. As Lucy felt guilty and that her planned back fired which resulted Ricky being laid off. Lucy came up with a different planned without telling her husband in an attempt to get Ricky back his job. Lucy came up with different planned that swayed the owner to believe that his business would not be doing well without Ricky’s leadership. Lucy’s planned work so the owner call Ricky to offer him back his job. When Ricky became cocky and said that he was that popular he does need to work for his boss anymore
The Dick Van Dyke Show: Analyze Sally's situation as an employee and as a woman
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At time she was able fit and often the man joke about how sally could tell a good joke just like a man. So she was treated equal just like her male coworker. She comes across as though minded career woman that get along well among the boys. When needed to be she puts the men in their placers by speaking her mind and says it like it is. Laura was very supportive and she wanted rob to treat more like a lady. Laura’s planned work so sally realized that she needs to be it more feminine as being too knowledgeable during that era was considered not unattractive since woman belong in the kitchen or house
Most individuals overlook or basically don 't recognize these sexual orientation contrasts. Women were constantly delegated being weak in their relational unions, legislative issues, and the workforce. Likewise being seen as subordinate to their spouses and are not deserving of deciding. Seen as simply a "mother" to stay at home and go to her kids throughout the day, while the spouse attempts to bring home the bread. Gender stereotyping, gender roles, and power is seen all through everything, for example, relationships, workplaces, or at home. The way she represented herself and her spouse accurately and deferentially then she was seen as dutiful and a decent wife. Despite the fact that there were ladies developments to change these sex ideas and generalizations, it has not disposed of the thought. This thought is still inserted into numerous men 's heads. Society still advances the thought of women being short of what a man is through motion pictures, media, workforce, advertisements, and games. Movies delineate men as being effective and ladies as frail. This all ties into Zora Neale Hurston 's novel and how men and ladies were pushed off due to their sex. This is the reason why Zora sets up her female characters as being frail and feeble and men as predominant and influential. Zora Neale Hurston uses the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God to
The original series ran from 1966 through 1969, in an overlap between the civil rights movement’s height and second wave feminism’s. Bigotry abounded, with workplace inequality a big issue for both groups. Despite the Civil Rights Act’s declaration that employers couldn’t discriminate based on sex, race, color, national origin, or religion, equality
...that so much of the discourse is centered on women within fictional workplace sitcoms like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Murphy Brown, 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation, I will examine how gender stratification in the fictional realm is a reflection of the real life gender stratification that continues today. I will examine case studies by reputable scholars that reflect gender preference of the people in positions of power at work as well as the reasons why. I will also review scholarly journals that discuss the expectations of gender roles, and how women are shamed or stigmatized for succeeding at tasks that are generally assumed to me masculine. This section will offer an explanation as to why successful, career oriented; females in positions of power are still preferred to stay within traditional gender roles, whether it is in real life or reflected on television.
In the 1950’s becoming a wife, having and raising children and taking care of the home was the primary goal for most women. Post war brides were marrying young, having children at significant and unrivaled rates, and settling into roles that would ultimately shape a generation. This ideal notwithstanding, women were entering the workplace like never before and changing the face of American business forever. In the movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit directed in 1956 by Nunnally Johnson, we get an inkling of the type of voice American women would develop in the character of Betsy Rath. We are introduced to a wife and mother who leverage her role in the family to direct and influence. The decade of the 50’s signify the beginnings of the duplicity that women would embrace in America, being homemakers and independent women.
I chose to analyze the sitcom That 70’s Show, a show that follows the lives of a group of teenage friends: Jackie, Donna, Hyde, Kelso, Eric, and Fez. The show addresses several social issues of the 1970s, including: sexism, sexual attitudes, drug use, politics, and the recession. I selected certain episodes from Season One based on their titles and descriptions; ones I thought may deal with sexism more in-depth than other episodes.
In a little town called Odessa, Texas, football is the center of the universe. In a town full of old fashioned texan depression and discrimination, there is one thing that brings them all together: Permian High School Friday night football.
When she moves to Portland she come across a Motel that is $ 120 week. She also is able to grab two jobs one at a nursing home for $ 7 an hour and the other is at The Maids for $ 6.65 an hour. At the nursing home her job is to feed the residents then wash the dishes after. While at The Maids her jo is to clean, dust vacuum houses. Her work is exhausting, especially the maids must continuously move at a fast pace. They are shuttled from house to house and clean the rooms as fast as they can. As an employee the maids are making $ 6.65 an hour per person, Dr. Ehrenreich figures out that The Maids actually charge customers $25 per hour. She then starts to wonder why does she only gets such a small fraction of that money. They have poor work conditions as well they are not allowed to eat or drink on the job. Dr. Ehrenreich later develops an intense rash and her boss Ted told her to work through it but it got so bad she had to rely on one of her restrictions and contact her dermatologist for a prescription. One day while cleaning a house her partner Holly hurts her ankle. Ehrenreich tells Holly that she can’t work with her ankle injured, but all Holly wants to do is call Ted. Ehrenreich takes the phone from Holly and tells Ted that she does not like the way he treats his employees but Ted tells
In Pat Bishop, Matt Ingebretson, and Jake Weisman’s television show Corporate, Matt and Jake work for the evil corporation, Hampton Deville, as they attempt to survive the complexities and depression of life. The show’s satirically dark comedy and depressing but truthful outlook on life provide the audience with an interesting, yet introspective, viewing experience. In the opening of the third episode of Corporate, “The Pain of Being Alive”, Grace, one of the show’s main characters, gives a presentation about how working at Hampton Deville is detrimental towards the lifespan and health of the employees. These dark undertones of the show make the experience of watching Corporate more real as compared to other satirical situational comedy shows.
The interactions between Violet Newstead and Franklin Hart in Nine to Five, demonstrate some of the common stereotypes for both men and women in the workplace. Hart gave a promotion Violet
During the 1950‘s suburbs such as Levitown were springing up all across the country, and the so-called American dream was easier to achieve for everyday Americans than ever before. They had just come out of two decades dominated by The Great Depression and World War Two, and finally prosperity was in sight. The need for women to work out of the home that was present during the war was no more, and women were overwhelmingly relegated to female-dominated professions like nursing, secretaries, and teachers, if they worked at all. Televisions became very popular, and quickly became part of the American cultural canon of entertainment. Leave It To Beaver is a classic American television show, encompassing values such as respect, responsibility and learning from your mistakes. But, at least in the episode used for this essay, it is also shockingly sexist to a modern viewer. This begs the question, what does the episode The Blind Date Committee1 say about the gender expectations of the 1950’s?
Today's world needs children who are accepting, loving and willing to listen. The current Disney Channel shows do not teach children relevant lessons. As a concerned teenager, I can see the effects that these shows are having on children who are still in a very critical developmental state. The shows that Disney creates do not teach important lessons, they are littered with racist, stereotypical and sexist comments. These shows are sculpting a certain kind of child. This child then grows up to be an adult who does not have the best morals.
The classic network era is one of the most easily recognizable and distinct eras in television history. Both Bewitched and I Love Lucy were huge sitcoms that took up issues of gender representation and patriarchy in their programs through the representations of the main male and female characters of their respective series. While both of these series pushed boundaries when it came to the representation of women, in the end, the costuming of these men and women, how the main characters are introduced, and the domestic environment that the atmosphere takes place in, all serve to reinforce traditional gender norms and reveals that patriarchy is dependent on maintaining dominant ideas about masculinity and femininity.
Don Draper, the protagonist of the show, is emotionally isolated yet narcissistic, trapped in a suffocation of his own ego. Yet he seems to be the most liberal when it comes to serious female contribution in the workplace, although continues to sexualise those who haven’t proved their worthy capabilities to him. He is able to view Peggy and Joan as women who have alternative purposes than to please his sexual desires. Despite this modernist ‘transition’ of observing woman in a new light, he is still the one who gets to make the decision of what use each female character is to him. The male characters expectantly possess the dominating role within the show, as they did in 1960s society. In Mad Men, everyone chain-smokes, every executive starts drinking before lunch, every man is a chauvinistic pig, every male employee viciously competitive and jealous of his colleagues, with the endless succession of leering junior execs and crude jokes and abusive behaviour. (Mendelsohn, 2011, 5) The men are consumed within the competitive environment of the advertisement agency, adultery, drinking and smoking just accessories to the life-style of the alpha male. The female characters are ultimately more complex because they have less freedom.
She talks about how women and men act similar because of their emotions such as happiness, remorse and sadness but due to a different part of their brain, their reactive response to each emotion makes them different. This is where the stereotype of each gender comes into play with the female coming as better caretakers because they react better to happiness and comfort whereas the males are better workers because they react more to a reward. This is proven throughout time and history because while the women stayed home in many societies, the male was able to go out hunt, get food and provide for the
Robyn seemed to be a little mad by the thing that the waiter in the restaurant thought that she was an ordinary secretary who went out to have dinner with her boss. Even if there was not that situation, she was put in the same category of women. “She was less amused by their waiter 's evident assumption that she herself was Wilcox 's secretary, being set up for seduction.” (Lodge 201)