To Kill A Mockingbird Sexism Essay

Women in America have been treated like they are less than men for ages and it is time for a change. Sexism is a very controversial topic in the U.S. recently. Namely, the amount of women in the workforce. Women are constantly trying to prove to men that they are more than they seem. In the workforce, women are only paid 78.3 cents for every dollar a man would make for the same task. This has caused many women to try and do what men are know to do to get better recognition. In ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, scout faces the many challenges of being treated less than boys/men. When women are told they are less than men, this causes protests and many other political issues. Today, women are starting to act more like men and put themselves in traditional male roles. Examples of these roles include: U.S. Congress, CEOs in fortune 500 companies, and the U.S. president. Although women are putting themselves in these roles, they are still severely under-represented. Alev Dudek says, “Women are under-represented in traditional male roles.” Not only are women treated less than men, but there are also much less women in higher roles. “Women represent only

Even in 1933 it was a ‘bad thing’ to act like a girl. In ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ Scout was taught that it was bad to act like a girl, “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so.” This shows that being a girl was a social disgrace. Little girls were taught to act like boys to be accepted. If you did anything girly, or anything that wasn’t considered boy-ish then it wasn’t okay. If women are still taught this today, then there is definitely an issue. Women should be able to act like women, not an altered version of men. Women are not men, and shouldn’t have to be to be socially accepted. Scout had to act like someone else to be accepted and for that to still be relevant today is a huge