Eth/125 Gender And Sexual Orientation Research Paper
Gender & Sexual Orientation
Katisha Lewis
Axia College at University of Phoenix
Dawn Byram
ETH/125
October 6, 2012
Gender & Sexual Orientation According to my research it states that throughout the history women have been treated as second- class citizens. Women have had fewer rights and job opportunity. The status for women in the history has been for them to be house wives and take care of the children, while the men worked doing hard labor. Women had little opportunity to get an education. Women in the workforce in the 1850’s jobs includes domestic services, clothing textiles, teaching, making shoes, wools, and hat making. The women were making as little as $2.00 per week and the more job opportunities, and an education. …show more content…
Even though women make up half the workforce there is still inequality between them and men. Women still only make 77 cent for every dollar than men do. African American women make only 64 cent of every dollar and Hispanic women make only 54 cent of every dollar. Since more and more women are because the breadwinner of families this is also hurting the family. Because women only get 77cent of every dollar they make it can cost women to lose tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost wages. In some case women are now the breadwinners of the family and it’s continues growing. According to the research women now make up 30% of small business in the United States and it generally $ 1.2 trillion a year in sales. The President signed a law Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which is to help women get pay they earned. Because many women are working the day care center fee have exceeded. Women annual income is 74.7% higher than it was 30 years ago. In 2010 there were 23.2 million working …show more content…
An example of it would be that the color blue has always represented a male and pink has always been a color to represented women. It is also said that strong and tough have been masculinity words and weak and soft has been more of femininity words. The media give men more advances than a woman. Women are often looked at weak and being a dependent of their spouse. A man is looked at as being strong in control, and taking care of the household. There have been many women in the media that has helped the women status. There are many organizations that have been spokesmen for women to help increase and emphasis women rights. There has been TV shows to represent women that are working mothers. The media has shown that working women are continuously growing. The media has also shown that more and more women are going back to school and getting an education. From the history the media has harmed women because everyone was thinking women were weak and their role was to stay at home taking care of the house and children. Now as time is changing women are coming more in the workforce holding down many jobs that men would
Katisha Lewis
Axia College at University of Phoenix
Dawn Byram
ETH/125
October 6, 2012
Gender & Sexual Orientation According to my research it states that throughout the history women have been treated as second- class citizens. Women have had fewer rights and job opportunity. The status for women in the history has been for them to be house wives and take care of the children, while the men worked doing hard labor. Women had little opportunity to get an education. Women in the workforce in the 1850’s jobs includes domestic services, clothing textiles, teaching, making shoes, wools, and hat making. The women were making as little as $2.00 per week and the more job opportunities, and an education. …show more content…
Even though women make up half the workforce there is still inequality between them and men. Women still only make 77 cent for every dollar than men do. African American women make only 64 cent of every dollar and Hispanic women make only 54 cent of every dollar. Since more and more women are because the breadwinner of families this is also hurting the family. Because women only get 77cent of every dollar they make it can cost women to lose tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost wages. In some case women are now the breadwinners of the family and it’s continues growing. According to the research women now make up 30% of small business in the United States and it generally $ 1.2 trillion a year in sales. The President signed a law Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which is to help women get pay they earned. Because many women are working the day care center fee have exceeded. Women annual income is 74.7% higher than it was 30 years ago. In 2010 there were 23.2 million working …show more content…
An example of it would be that the color blue has always represented a male and pink has always been a color to represented women. It is also said that strong and tough have been masculinity words and weak and soft has been more of femininity words. The media give men more advances than a woman. Women are often looked at weak and being a dependent of their spouse. A man is looked at as being strong in control, and taking care of the household. There have been many women in the media that has helped the women status. There are many organizations that have been spokesmen for women to help increase and emphasis women rights. There has been TV shows to represent women that are working mothers. The media has shown that working women are continuously growing. The media has also shown that more and more women are going back to school and getting an education. From the history the media has harmed women because everyone was thinking women were weak and their role was to stay at home taking care of the house and children. Now as time is changing women are coming more in the workforce holding down many jobs that men would