Women have been put under men and have had this image of being homeward bound, raising the kids, and cleaning the house. Men have always been the strong figures, who make all the decisions and that go to work and expect supper to be on the table when they get home. Our society still is this way in most cases because that just is simply one of the traditions of the old life that we still stick to. Women do have jobs now, but we still are misrepresented in most big sectors of society including work, education and politics. The biggest factor of women being unequal is in the work place.In the olden days women never had to go to work and now they are forced to, so that bills can be managed.
In some work places women are still treated as the lesser class and are made to do jobs that men wouldn’t want to. (Referred to “Pink Getto Jobs”) Men are usually trained to do the tougher jobs such as oil rigs, trucking, and construction. When a woman is placed in this environment, it is normal for her to be judged as weak and insecure. Women in most cases are stronger not only mentally but physically as well.
This is not to say that women are not allowed to be involved in these careers, but hen they display the incentive to go into these fields of work, they are automatically judged. Usually when the women in these fields are judged, it is not by younger men, but by the older population of workers. The reason for this is because the older men are still stuck in the society where women are supposed to either be stay at home moms, or the non-threatening jobs such as a secretary or kindergarten teachers. What they overlook is that during World War 2, when the men went off to war, the women were left with the men’s jobs in the factories, working long hours to supply the war.Once the men returned back home, the jobs the women had done were overlooked and the men demanded their jobs back. The women were then sent back to the “home life” which is incredibly unequal and is partly a reason why there is still that inequality today, hense the baby boomer generation was born.
Woman according to society are the cooks, maids and nannies. Men in the early days, woke up to breakfast already ready on the table, kissed their wife and went to work. The women than did the dishes, sent the older kids off to school and cleaned all day.The men would return home, expect supper to be on the table and the women would clean up and the men would laze around. Women’s job at home since it was not a paid profession, was not considered to be work.
Men still think that in many cases that even if the women does have a paid job outside the home that she is responsible for all the house work. This demonstrates that even though the times are different than they were in the olden days, that women are still not considered to be equal. If they were then the man would be the one to help out with meals, the kids and other sectors of the home. In most cases this just simply isn’t true.According to Statistics, if the government paid all stay at home moms it would range to When you look at the current movies and media, women are still portrayed as the psychopathic, over bearing moms that do all the cleaning, the laundry and you barely see them outside the home at their jobs. Men are seen as the laid back dads, that don’t take part in discipline of children and go to work and then sit on the couch.
The inequality of women and men continues to education. In the early years, women were prohibited from getting any education besides going to finishing school. There, instead of being taught to be in high respected rofessions, they were basically taught to be housekeepers or teachers. The program was put into place to show women the “arts and graces of life” which meant that they were to teach.
[Canadian Encyclopedia on Women and Education] Men went on to be in professions such as doctors and lawyers. This effected women such as Dela Irish, a girl that wanted to be a doctor. She got into school and when she finally graduated, she got discriminated against. She got a journal wrote about her story by a man professor of medicine that claimed that any education for women would “ruin their health and make them unable to have children”.
This was incredible to think that just because Dela Irish and women in general wanted to make something of themselves and get an education that they couldn’t because it would affect their fertility. Now, women do not get so much inequality in their education, because women of the past have pushed past these unequal barriers set up by men. Still, men do not respect a women’s education or they are threatened by a women’s drive to not just be another stay at home mom. The worst part is, however, that the male employers who are sexist and against the equality of a women’s education, do a good job of keeping it “hush, hush”.They do treat the women different even in a personal way then they do male employees. It mostly happens in the hiring process.
Male employers can turn away women who have a good education in the field for a male just based on the fact that women are taking over the workplace, universities and even politics. All women weren’t allowed to vote until the 1950’s. This includes all the different nationality of women. The part that is aggravating about this is that the first women to get the vote in Canada were women that lived on the prairies in 1916 because they needed the votes to overthrow the provincial government.
So in a nutshell it is saying that the men controlled the women vote even then. Men always had the right to vote. It was something that came so simple for the men that they overlook that women had to fight to even be half equal to men in politics. Talking about the women right to vote, so many factors can be looked into so deeply that it would go on forever.
Women that are of any racist decent other than Caucasian, had to wait and work even harder for their right to vote.It goes even further from just voting, there haven’t hardly be any women in office in North America in general. Kim Campbell was the only female Prime Minister Canada has ever had. She only was a fill in however and lasted only months. Males have dominated that position since the first one elected in 1867. If Hillary Clinton had been elected in this pervious United States of American election, she would have been the first female ever in office.
Females in general have this stereotype that we cannot make decisions and we are insecure.In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, women were treated the exact unequal way as they are in our day. The book dates back to the 1960’s and in the book women were not allowed to be on the court jury. They were not allowed for two reasons, one being that the topics, the men felt, were unfit for a lady’s ear and the second being that they felt that the women would not be able to formulate an opinion as efficiatly as the men could. This is false because the men in the book convicted an innocent man, and the verdict may have been different if it were a jury of women.
The trial was fixed in this way because not everyone was represented on the jury. Today, women are allowed on the jury and are allowed to run a party with the possibility of becoming prime minister or president but the with the statistics so low of previous women power leaders this is an issue. In conclusion, women are unequal and looked down upon in the work force, the family life, schooling, and in politics. They are unequal today for a reason, which is that the past century of women being looked down upon has influenced sexist males in our day.Women are not looked upon to be in careers of a man(construction, oil rigs, etc), they are supposed to be the maid and nanny of the home and be in subject to their husbands, their education sometimes doesn’t mean anything to male employers, and they are misrepresented in politics.
Women do have more rights than we did a century ago, but bottom line, women and males are not equal. Samantha Waselenko Bibliography 1. http://en. wikipedia.
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