Placement? Gender Roles?
Placement? Gender Roles?
Alicia Gallegos
SOC120: Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility
Dr. Craig Allen
February 11, 2013
Placement? Gender Roles?
Ethical understanding and its theories can often come with debates or arguments from both sides; for or against an issue. There was a topic that could use more ethical and theoretical discussion because it has been a way of life since the beginning of time. Societies in the past have general stands in which it places men and women or what their job should be because of their sex. Today, gender roles in the work place are not scene as much but are still very much alive and active. For families that are nontraditional as the past, see a slight standard set and are less likely to stay at a job because of all the silence stereotyping some people places on others. It has been proven that society’s roles change over time but there are a few people that still feel that a woman’s place in home taking care of the kids and a man’s place is working outside of the home to provide for his family.
Classical Theory- Virtue Ethics
In taking gender roles of females and males in the workplace in to the perspective of a virtue ethics one would claim that the person in questioned would have all the characteristics of a virtuous person minus one attribute (Mosser, 2010). In this particular case the one attribute that would be lacking is the judgmental bias or prejudices thinking against those who step outside the norm. Many employers look at all the qualities that their employees hold. In some cases we find that an employer can have some bias against women or men in certain workplaces. There has been a huge male increase in the nursing field which would typically be a female 's job and on the other hand there has been an increase in women working as police officers. Men and women who step outside the norm to pursue careers in field were the opposite sex dominates are negatively looked upon because they have been less
Alicia Gallegos
SOC120: Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility
Dr. Craig Allen
February 11, 2013
Placement? Gender Roles?
Ethical understanding and its theories can often come with debates or arguments from both sides; for or against an issue. There was a topic that could use more ethical and theoretical discussion because it has been a way of life since the beginning of time. Societies in the past have general stands in which it places men and women or what their job should be because of their sex. Today, gender roles in the work place are not scene as much but are still very much alive and active. For families that are nontraditional as the past, see a slight standard set and are less likely to stay at a job because of all the silence stereotyping some people places on others. It has been proven that society’s roles change over time but there are a few people that still feel that a woman’s place in home taking care of the kids and a man’s place is working outside of the home to provide for his family.
Classical Theory- Virtue Ethics
In taking gender roles of females and males in the workplace in to the perspective of a virtue ethics one would claim that the person in questioned would have all the characteristics of a virtuous person minus one attribute (Mosser, 2010). In this particular case the one attribute that would be lacking is the judgmental bias or prejudices thinking against those who step outside the norm. Many employers look at all the qualities that their employees hold. In some cases we find that an employer can have some bias against women or men in certain workplaces. There has been a huge male increase in the nursing field which would typically be a female 's job and on the other hand there has been an increase in women working as police officers. Men and women who step outside the norm to pursue careers in field were the opposite sex dominates are negatively looked upon because they have been less
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