Unit 3 Gender Roles In Society Research Paper
Gender Roles in Society American comedian Elaine Boosler is accredited to the famous one-liner: “I’m just a person, trapped in a women’s body.” Such an idea is considered humorous to the public because of the unfortunate truth it pertains; it is addressing the reality that even though women are just as capable as men and share the same potential as been, they are seen in a less competent and a suppressive light. In understanding the prevalence of gender roles in society today, we can examine how women suffer from the direct consequences of social inequality in our everyday lives among social themes such as occupations and stereotypes within social media. A primary example of social inequality and its effect on gender roles is the workplace. When it comes to occupational status, women have, first off, longtime been expected to play the “house wife” role; they have been viewed as masters of home economics, rather
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In Deborah Tannen’s “But What Do You Mean? Women and Men in Conversation, she provides an example of how women seem to be stuck in their limitations that has come from a culture of gender expectations (Henslin, 193). At an insurance company, a woman named Helen excessively apologizes, even when she is not in the wrong; she is a quality and productive worker, but received one of the smallest bonuses--not because of unfair wages. She is stuck in the gender role of passiveness that women have been expected to display for a long while, and so her ritual of apologizing for everything had affected her work, and consequentially, her pay. This is not necessarily her blame, though, but more so an effect of gender roles in society. As displayed in just one component of the workplace, the consequences of gender role are prevalent when it comes to inequality within
In Deborah Tannen’s “But What Do You Mean? Women and Men in Conversation, she provides an example of how women seem to be stuck in their limitations that has come from a culture of gender expectations (Henslin, 193). At an insurance company, a woman named Helen excessively apologizes, even when she is not in the wrong; she is a quality and productive worker, but received one of the smallest bonuses--not because of unfair wages. She is stuck in the gender role of passiveness that women have been expected to display for a long while, and so her ritual of apologizing for everything had affected her work, and consequentially, her pay. This is not necessarily her blame, though, but more so an effect of gender roles in society. As displayed in just one component of the workplace, the consequences of gender role are prevalent when it comes to inequality within