Gender+Inequality

=Gender Ineqaulity= Women are considered somewhat of a minority group, which consists of racism and sexism. Sexism is the set of beliefs, attitudes, norms, and values used to justify gender ineqaulity. Just as minorites of other cultures suffer from racism, women suffer from sexism. The sexist ideology is the belief that men are superior to women which has been used and is still currently being used to justify men's leadership and power positions in the economic, social, and political parts of society. Although society has postive views of women, the discrimination is still there and it's going to take a while to overcome sexism entirely. Although women are participating in the labor force at increasing levels, they are concentrated in lower status occupations which is known as **occupational sex segregation.** And even when women are in higher-status occupational groups, they still tend to be in the lower part of those groups, such as a female lawyer, although the occupation itself deals with a higher status, women tend to never rise to the higher levels of lawyer positions. Women in the work force tend to earn about 80 cents per dollar that a man makes, or in another view women work seven days to earn what men make in five days, and mostly every occupation that you could get involved in is male-dominated and this salary difference is around everywhere. To make matters worse, if you are a female and make only 80 cents compared to the male dollar, it is even less if you are an african american female of a latino female. African american women make 71 cents per dollar that a man makes and a latino female makes only 59 cents for every dollar that a man earns. This salary difference and unfortunate reasoning why women do not tend to move significantly high in the work place is due to a concept called "America's Glass Ceiling". Equal representation is not quite the reality when 50 percent of the U.S population is female and yet only 22 percent of american senators are women, which is only slightly better than the world statistics which states that 52 percent of the population in female while only 17 percent of members of national parliments worldwide are women. In some countires, women still can not vote and even a women's choice of testimony is given third class treatment. In some courts of the middle east only count a womens testimony to be worth half of a mans, and most women aren;t allowed to own any proprerty which explains how 99% of the worlds assets are in the names of men. [] []

The Cons of sexism
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-Boys tend to get away with things easier because of the saying, "boys will be boys" -Men earn twenty cents more than women do in the workplace -Some police officials tend to view domestic violence as a family dispute instead of a crime -Most salseman tend to overprice women because they believe they are incompetent of understanding money and things of that sort -Women are discriminated against which is therefore harder to obtain a higher level job because of the self proclaimed "glass-ceiling" =Article on sexism= []] This article explains the statue built in chicago of the bigger than life sized marilyn Monroe. it discusses how the image of her, although a very popular scene from one of her famous films, is innopropriate to be displayed in from of the public eye. It explains how chicago is notorious for having as many statues as potholes and are severly lacking in the amount of women sttues, and that this one does not help.

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