Essay On Gender Stratification

Gender Stratification In the video “Kathy and Mo Show”, the ladies examine every aspect of gender stratification. Gender stratification cuts across all aspects of social life, social classes, and refers to men and women’s unequal access to power, prestige, and property on the basis of their sex. Gender roles are portrayed throughout the video as well. Our text explains these are the sets of societal norms dictating what types of behaviors are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on their actual or perceived sex. In skit two, the dating skit, the terms women’s gender roles and men’s gender roles are applied. Throughout skit two women’s gender roles are made obvious. For example, during the date, the girl portrays a helpless, passive, and in need of a strong male,
The aunt and her friend in this skit are trying to modernize their views on life. The aunt learns her nephew is gay. In the beginning of her discovery, the aunt showed signs of homophobia because of the violation of the gender norm. Homophobia is defined as fear of and prejudice against homosexuality. Feminism is strongly portrayed throughout skit five, the skit of women’s power. Feminism is the belief in social, economic, and political, equality for women. Our text explains that women were not afraid to risk controversy on behalf of their cause. In the video, Kathy and Mo’s characters represent feminism by being completely against help from the male gender and completely for their own identity. These women want to be identified as more than the “sister, woman, mother” traditional role of a female. During skit seven, the confession skit, the women confess their many sins to a priest. As a minority gender, women are often faced with making a bad ethical decision to compete in a male-dominated society. In the confessional the women admitted to stealing, adultery, lying,