The Role Of Misogyny In America

Misogyny is defined as the entrenched prejudice of women, from the Greek roots miso, meaning hatred, and gyny, or woman. Hesiod's tale clearly had a misogynistic theme blames the eternal suffering in life from labor, misery, disease, and death because of woman. Hesoid creates the idea that Pandora was created with the intention to punish man, for she had evil intentions and a beautiful face. From the very beginning, women are taught as a negative 'race'. We can notice this shared viewpoint across a majority of cultures. For example, Powell points out in Classical Myth that in the biblical tale of Adam and Eve, it was woman who is responsible for the world's agony. Undoubtedly, as far as we have come, this perception toward women has still endured in our modern American society.
Nevertheless, even if we were to ignore all social aspects of misogyny in American gender roles, and there are a myriad of them, women are still treated as second-class citizens as they try to advance in our society. Economically speaking, the gender pay gap in the U.S. in 2016 was eighty cents for every dollar a man makes, after adjustments to count different chosen occupations and hours. With that in mind, 13% of women were below the Federal Poverty Line in 2016, as opposed to only 10% of men (The Simple Truth About The Gender Pay Gap 3). Misogynic barriers also keep women out of leadership positions. A notable example of this is how only 19.6% of Congress members consisted of women in 2016 (Women in the US