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Gender - Essay

Gender


Issues: Have Woman’s Rights Improved? Twenty-five years ago, when my mother was little she had three career choices available to her, a teacher, a nurse, or a secretary. So as the I was growing up my mother made sure that I knew that I could be whatever I wanted to be, when I grew up. With this belief in mind I set my goal as becoming the first woman President of the United States, but as I started to work towards this goal I realized that what she did not tell me about were the obstacles that I would have to overcome to succeed in a “man’s world”. There are three main barriers standing in a woman’s way to achieve her career goal they are men, the media , and American society. According ...

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to choose from. It was not until the late 1980’s that woman were accepted in to higher paying careers by the men that were already dominating the workforce. Even today when they are accepted into the workforce they are still not paid as much as men for doing the same work. A 1998 study shows that a woman in the same job as a man with the same expectations and responsibilities, the woman is paid ten to fifteen percent less then the man. The media or television programs are also to blame for the image that is given to woman. Women play passive roles, in movies and even TV sitcoms. For example in the sitcom Dharma and Greg, which is about a young married couple, the man is a successful lawyer from a wealthy family, while Dharma is a cute little unemployed blonde that cracks jokes. Another example is in the sitcom Friends, in which the men Ross and Chandler have very successful jobs as an accountant and a anthropologist, while the women on the show are employed as a cook and the ...

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Added: 12/16/2004 11:23:30 AM
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