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Summary: The Glass Ceiling Movement

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There are also several political problems to be faced. Some of them being the Glass Ceiling, the division of domestic labor, and violence against women. The Glass Ceiling is an unofficial barrier to advancement in a certain profession of women and minority groups no matter their achievement or qualifications. This specifically affects women and minority groups in the work force. When thinking of successful business personnel, most think of a white man in a suit and tie, not a black or a middle eastern woman. This is an example of stereotypical thinking caused by the image the media has projected for years. This image has been copied into our brains and, without thinking twice, one specific image comes forward.
The division of domestic labor is the parting of household tasks between partners. This is where stereotypes such as “women should do the cooking and cleaning and men should bring home the bacon”. For such a long time, that was a woman’s role in society, that is, to cook, clean, and take care of children. However, women are more …show more content…

There are plenty of examples existing that helps the movement grow and be promoted. The media tended to demote or ignore feminism in the early movements. When the issue was covered in the media, the message had almost always been unflattering and unsupportive. Thus, the movement grew in spite of the media’s negative influence. Since there was a strong negative impact, many people were persuaded not to support women gaining rights. Society was, in a way, trying to pretend the movement didn’t exist, hoping for it would lose momentum and fade away. Towards the end of the second wave, in the 1980s, the media began giving the movement a more positive image, which gained support. Most news anchors were men. As a result, they got to choose the stories which were not going to be about feminism. This was the cause that brought an end to the second

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In fact this relates to a very common stereotype within today’s society. An article from Health Guidance states that from birth we are automatically stereotyped into a category being born male or female. One of the most common stereotypes about women is that they are expected to cook and do housework. As young girls they were brought up playing with dolls and that they women stay and take care of the babies and the men go out to work. It is very surprising to see how we have been raised up into a stereotype and it has defined who we will become.

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But, when the house is all male, who is doing the domestic work? Out of necessity the men have to learn how to do household duties such as cooking, ironing, grocery shopping, and cleaning for the first time in their life which represents a big role change for them. In addition to these domestic tasks, “most of them also held restaurant jobs, where they worked busing tables, washing dishes, preparing food, and cooking: these work experiences also widened their repertoire of domestic skills”. (Hondagneu-Sotelo, 408) Culturally, their mom and/or their sisters would be the ones to take care of these tasks when they were younger and then once they are married it becomes the wife’s responsibility. With the absence of women in these bachelor communities, the men are forced to do things for themselves.

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This movement fought for the right for women to vote because women were denied the democratic rights that were given to men and were forced to focus on the cult of domesticity. The movement started in the late eighteenth century however it was renewed during the Second Great Awakening when reform movements started gaining popularity. The suffrage movement was aided by the abolition movement because slavery gave women a reason to unite for a separate cause. This was a new reform movement, unlike women’s suffrage and abolition, which both had roots that were as deep as those of the country’s, and was unique because of the unusually undemocratic responses that society and its people reacted with. Unlike abolition and women’s suffrage, the asylum and penitentiary reform movement did not gather popularity

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Even though some women did work, it was more commonly thought of only men who did labor. Labor rarely mentioned housewives, domestic servants, and female outworkers. The idea that the men were the head of the house meant that he, not the wife, should bring in income to support his family (Foner 351). According to the newspaper Workingman’s Advocate, “Capitalism tore women from their role as ‘happy and independent mistresses’ of the domestic sphere and forced them into the labor market, thereby undermining the natural order of the household and the authority of its male

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This then introduces the concept of the glass ceiling ( Gay Bryant, Adweek,1984) which deals with the concept that there is an invisible boundary preventing woman from working up the career ladder. Woman too

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