The history behind treatment of women has changed throughout time. Women have been said to be weaker than men. Men state that hard work is required more strength and it's their responsibility. So that left the jobs of women to taking the needs of children, cleaning, milking the cows,and other chores in the house (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia).
This is because when times get tough and it’s life or death women have to do a work that is usually only designated for a man. If they can’t find work or if they can’t make the first harvest there would be nothing for the next generations to inherit. “They had to be willing to do the backbreaking work required to turn a wilderness into prosperous farms and towns – but had their ancestors not done that as well”(National Geographic, 3) The comfort that their ancestors did the same work and the promised reward gave them the courage to take these risks. This caused women to get close to having the same jobs as a man.
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, ‘It 's a girl.’” says Shirley Chisholm, the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in the United States. A simple quote like this, shows how U.S. women were treated in the 1950’s and 1960’s, they were stereotyped, predestined to achieve certain expectations, and moreover, they were unequal to men. The expectations of U.S. women in the 1950’s and 1960’s are recognizable in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. It is a historical fiction about the Younger family, an African American family that lives in a small apartment in Chicago during the 1950’s. In the play, the family had conflict among each other
Women are expected to be the caretakers and the maids for the home. Any deviation from these roles are seen as unusual and are treated differently because of it. Even if the women do have careers that are as hard and tedious as their male counterparts they are expected. If we the second shift is to be less burdensome for women, first we must rid ourselves of the ridiculous expectations placed on
The majority of women say, “the poor thing comes home so tired, I am not going to make him (do chores).”…Because a man’s work is a lot harder here (in the US), And even though she works as well, usually a woman’s work is considered less difficult. And besides working, she has to come home and keep cooking or working. I think that they are both equally difficult. But the majority of women think like this.” (Parrado,
Heightening Our Awareness of Gender Stereotypes by Phoebe Constaninou discusses the different ways there are gender bias in schools, specifically the gymnasium. When the topic “gender bias” comes up, most educators think it only affects females. While the Title IX helped make way for females, many thought it was not an issue anymore. Since more than forty percent of athletes are females and they did well on standardized tests, gender bias must be over. Constaninou identifies the different situations where gender bias is still pertinent, and not just for females.
Why? Men can cry and it shows how sad they really are. But if a woman cry 's she is being a 'typical woman ' or a crybaby. Why are women ridiculed for their emotions and men are allowed to act however they want? Why do women have to be loving and comforting as their men act out and be aggressive, but be put down as they act out?
I Love Equal Opportunities What comes to mind when you hear “women of 1950s?” As you look back in time you notice that all the magazines and advertisement and T.V. commercial promotes stay at home mothers. In these advertisement you see a smiling woman bringing loads of food to the table while her husband reads a newspaper or a women smiling while washing dishes. These are roles that society felt that women fit into and they should embrace these roles.
As time passes by, we start to develop ideologies of who someone is as a person based on our previous experience with other human beings. Oftentimes, our beliefs and disbeliefs prevents us from developing genuine ideologies of who someone is as a person. With that being said, our perception of who someone is as a person may not be who someone is in actuality. Therefore, in order for us to perceive someone for who they actually are we must be willing to set aside our beliefs and disbeliefs. Sometimes, our perception of someone has the possibility to affect their perception of themselves.
Women in the 21st century still continue to be held back by the stereotypes, but it is not as much like three to four decades ago. Even though now women get more power than before, it is a problem throughout the world. Due to the stereotypes that is being told about women it is affecting how men sees women as for example it affects their ability to make a difference in the world, their social status, and the ability of them getting a job. Men before did not believe that women that should not be able to things that men do. For example, men prefer women to be a housewife and take care of the kids than getting a job and earning money.
Many people continue to believe that a woman’s role in the world is to perform her womanly duties such as the cooking, cleaning, having and raising children, and attending to their husband’s sexual desires. Many believe that a women’s place in society absolutely does not hold real higher power or presence in the world. Although many are stubborn to stereotype women in this way to see them as the weaker sex. In the pieces studied in both fiction and non-fiction literature the women in the works have shown much admiration. These unforgettable stories have shown how powerful women can truly be overcoming their hardships they’ve encountered through their lives on their own.
Stereotypes are generalizations or assumptions that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group, based on an image, often – wrong one, about what people in that group are like. There are different sourses of stereotypes, for example they can arise because of lack of personal experience, popular media sourses that tend to generalize certain ethnic, gender and religious groups, or because of fear of differences. Sometimes we can become so called victims of stereotypes. I have a very bright example from my own experience. When I was living in America for a year I met a lot of people who reacted differently when I told them about my nationality.
This article is based around how black children aren’t seen as being children because they never have been seen that way with the focus being on black girls on college campus (Hutchinson). The article talks about how black girls are suspended more and if they commit little acts like using cell phones or talking back to teachers in the classroom they sometimes experience a harsher punishment than whites that are committed with assault on campus (Hutchinson). This article ties into the article we discussed and read in class titled “SayHerName.” The article “SayHerName” is about black women being killed more by police officers because they’re not seen as being a woman like a white woman would be (African American Policy Forum 1).
This article is focused on women and their clothing color of choice during the ovulation period within their menstrual cycle. The purpose of the experiment is to find out how females of the human species unconsciously display their fertility levels in an observable manner, if they do at all. It is thought that women in some way indicate that they are fertile, but before this article it was not known how it was expressed. With species outside of the human race, the colors red and pink are commonly used to show a female’s readiness to mate with a male. These colors are stereotypically associated with love, and lust in humans as well.
Women to this day are known as the weaker sex. Incapable of doing the dirty work and lifting heavy objects. What people overlooked is that women worked in factories and mills if they didn’t have husbands to take care of them. It wasn’t exactly folding clothes or cooking either. It was hard labor.
