Simone De Beauvoir Women Inequality
Women inequality
Women have almost always been look down as the inferior gender. In Simone De Beauvoir’s Woman as other she discusses the treatment of women throughout history and how they have always been the “back seat” to the man. As I read this literature work and take my own views of the situation from a man’s point of view I will do my best to talk about gender roles, gender stereotypes and gender social stratification while also using references from Simone De Beauvoir’s work.
Unlike Simone De Beauvoir response stating that man represents positive and neutral as woman only represents negative, I believe that the word does not take on that kind of power because it’s just a relation to gender maybe in her time it could have meant that …show more content…
But as we look in society women are getting up there just last presidential election we had two women going for major positions in society our president and to just think that just about 75 years ago women couldn’t even vote. Throughout most of recorded history and around the globe, women have taken a “back seat” to men. Generally speaking, men have had, and continue to have, more physical and social power and status than women, especially in the public arena. Men tend to be more aggressive and violent then women, so they fight wars. This leads to males holding public office, creating laws and rules, defining society, and—some feminists might add—controlling women. For instance, not until the 19th century was women in the United States allowed to own property, vote, testify in court, or serve on a jury explain in Simone de Beauvoir’s work and in other feminist’s writings. Male dominance in a society is termed patriarchy. Sexism is the assumption that men are superior to women. Sexism has always had negative consequences for women. It has caused some women to avoid pursuing successful careers typically described as “masculine”—perhaps to avoid the social impression that they are less desirable as spouses or mothers, or even less “feminine.” Sexism has also caused women to feel inferior to men or to rate themselves negatively. More recently, though, researchers have found the gap in these sorts of ratings to be closing. This may be due to social commentary in the media regarding sexism; growing numbers of successful women in the workforce. Sexism produces inequality between the genders—particularly in the form of discrimination. In comparable positions in the
Women have almost always been look down as the inferior gender. In Simone De Beauvoir’s Woman as other she discusses the treatment of women throughout history and how they have always been the “back seat” to the man. As I read this literature work and take my own views of the situation from a man’s point of view I will do my best to talk about gender roles, gender stereotypes and gender social stratification while also using references from Simone De Beauvoir’s work.
Unlike Simone De Beauvoir response stating that man represents positive and neutral as woman only represents negative, I believe that the word does not take on that kind of power because it’s just a relation to gender maybe in her time it could have meant that …show more content…
But as we look in society women are getting up there just last presidential election we had two women going for major positions in society our president and to just think that just about 75 years ago women couldn’t even vote. Throughout most of recorded history and around the globe, women have taken a “back seat” to men. Generally speaking, men have had, and continue to have, more physical and social power and status than women, especially in the public arena. Men tend to be more aggressive and violent then women, so they fight wars. This leads to males holding public office, creating laws and rules, defining society, and—some feminists might add—controlling women. For instance, not until the 19th century was women in the United States allowed to own property, vote, testify in court, or serve on a jury explain in Simone de Beauvoir’s work and in other feminist’s writings. Male dominance in a society is termed patriarchy. Sexism is the assumption that men are superior to women. Sexism has always had negative consequences for women. It has caused some women to avoid pursuing successful careers typically described as “masculine”—perhaps to avoid the social impression that they are less desirable as spouses or mothers, or even less “feminine.” Sexism has also caused women to feel inferior to men or to rate themselves negatively. More recently, though, researchers have found the gap in these sorts of ratings to be closing. This may be due to social commentary in the media regarding sexism; growing numbers of successful women in the workforce. Sexism produces inequality between the genders—particularly in the form of discrimination. In comparable positions in the