Margaret Wente’s Globe and Mail editorial entitled “What women can learn from men” argues that gender differences are evident, stating that men are often shamed for being morally inadequate, when, in fact, they have many favorable qualities that women do not possess. Wente bemoans the increased attacks against men in all areas of life and contends that women would do the world a service by mirroring some of the more favourable traits embodied by men. Although Wente employs tone successfully to engage a specific audience and achieve her purpose, her argument is undermined by a lack of evidence and a dependence on generalizations that do not make this an effective…
Australia should take in more Christian refugees from the Middle East and stop being “religiously blind” in its choice of immigrants, according to journalist Angela Shanahan.…
Kathy Dobie’s memoir was thought-provoking. When Kathy first had sex with Brian I knew that this was the start of some bad decisions. When she later went from Brian to Victor I knew she was trying to be a “saint.” When Kathy later found her “tribe” I knew from the start they would use her. When they raped her, she found herself analyzing all of her decisions. It gave her confirmation to change the way she was behaving but to keep her “saint” presence in life.…
In recent discussions of Susan Bordos reading about women’s pressures in society, one controversial issue discusses how women have expectations in society that they think they have to follow. These expectations consist of being able to cook and work in the kitchen, look beautiful, and dress certain ways to gain attention. In contrast, other arguments are; men do not have to worry about their weight, they should be strong and maintain a fit body, and not needed to cook or help out in the kitchen. Proponents of this position, emphasize that women in this world have to follow what society portrays of them, otherwise by not doing it, they will not receive the same attention as they would if they listened to society. Overall, the issue presented…
252). Also, as more mothers, sisters, aunts and women in the community attend and graduate from a higher education institution, other women are being motivated. It is because of the struggle of women during the 20s, 30, 40s and 50s that women today are free to pursue dreams with no limitations. Women can study and practice any occupation they like and while women work hard to get a raise or find jobs, employers can no longer deny women the right to work in the field of their choice. Over the years women have become a strong impact to our economy, family and…
In “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” by Scott Russell Sanders, Sanders described how men worked hard all day and the health issues they later on in life. Sanders also show the comments and reactions of women he knew or came across throughout his childhood life. As he got older, his opinion changed tremendously. He realized women had it much harder.…
A college girl tells Friedan “If your husband is going to be an organization man, you can’t be too educated. The wife is awfully important for the husband’s career. You can’t be too interested in art, or something like that.” (Friedan, 177). This college student is emphasizing that women should not further their education and not be smarter than men. She also feels that women are alienated since most careers require higher education and the real careers are reserved and already taken by men. Moreover, she expresses that women should not get in a man’s way of success because society believes men are supposed to be more intelligent in everything besides being a housewife that is why she should not pursue a career that requires high education. This could break the abnormal image of women challenging men in their careers. However, if women want real careers and rise greater than a housewife, risk is…
* “women are simply not endowed…with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of western capitalism” (pat…
Women are “better educated than men” and in the family “the wife and husband” both do not consider the other smarter(David Cauchon). The line between who is better is getting thinner. It used to be the man is the more suppeurory. Men were given more education and therefore they were considered more smarter. But now both genders are given the same education and women are proving to be more smarter and more devoted than men. They became what men are supposed to be. Men were the one’s that got education and went to school. Now both genders both go to school and get the same education. Women are more likely to succeed and go to college. But most of those women become a stay at home…
In this report from CBS news I was able to find information about how gender roles play in college. The statistics have shown that more women are attending college than men. Women’s mentality have changed over the past few year, now women believe that they can be anything they want. This low rates of men from going to college is because of masculinity, they believe that school and homework is not for them but for women. Masculinity has changed even the economy, for the fact that it doesn’t matter if a female has the same job as male, she still gets pay less than him just for the fact that she’s a women. But also some things have changed over the past few year, now days men does more work at home, for example by helping to clean or change the…
Even though, men agrees a woman is a hardworking person but they will add a comment at the end that she was not a generous like other team members. There is always a question for a women and she needs prove herself every now and then. Feltman (2015) argued that pervasive gender stereotype of our age is that men are brilliant by nature while women works hard to achieve such goal.…
According to the institute for women’s policy research, women paid 80 cents for every dollar a male earned. The gap may seem small and a vocal minority suggests that is not enough of a difference to start a political movement however any amount of difference is still too large. Journal of International Diversity in 2012 calculated that in corporate America when a male made $824 then the female counterpart makes only $669. That 20 percent comes out to real money difference which can change how someone lives their life. This 20 percent seems not as large as it used to be however that difference should be zero. The effect of the difference psychologically harming. Women will believe they are only worth 20 percent of male when in reality everyone is equal. The other alarming part is that a report from the United States Joint Economic Committee ranking member Martin Heinrich reported that women with a graduate degree earn $5000 less than male. This difference can discourage women from pursuing a college degree since even with a degree not only will they be behind men in pay, but now they also will be in longer lasting debt. Some would argue that women would benefit from trying to potentially get ahead or at least on the equal pay level as men exiting college by working four years earlier. The disturbing part of this pay difference is how slowly America is accepting and fixing this problem. The AAUW,…
Very typical in the 18th century on the frontier for women to be familiar with various skills.…
There was also a discussion on the fact that women generally have pressures to work harder than men in order to prove their professional competency. This phenomenon has been observed myself in many places. Especially in Eastern societies like China where patriarchal power still has more advantage, women seem to have only two choices: either they act cooperatively or they rise to the occasion and challenge the deontology. And they hardly take it as easy as men do. So we are often surprised by “superwomen”, including those who can drink a lot at social dining table. Rather than…
The researchers found that the nature of the women’s achievements or failures weren’t significant and there was no correlation between them and the participants’ own successes or failures — men simply…