From professional sports to children's toys, women are portrayed as the weaker sex. The media and pop culture has allowed this to happen. Women are shown as dumb, beautiful, and totally dependent. Although women are shown like this, most women in the real world are intelligent, nice, independent, and not as beautiful as a supermodel. Women have fought long and hard to get rid of the demeaning connotations that go along with being female; yet, being female in today's world means that you are not as strong or smart as anyone male.
Since 1848 when the Women's Rights Movement began, women have been fighting against stereotypes alive in pop culture. At this time, women were not allowed to vote, allowed to practice medicine or law, allowed to go to college, or allowed to participate in church affairs. From then, many things have improved, yet women are still suppressed by much of what they fought in the movement.
Women are now allowed to vote, hold almost any profession, go to any college they dream of, and are part of church affairs in non-Catholic denominations. Although all of these breakthroughs have happened, women are still oppressed by men.
The "glass-ceiling" is an excellent example of oppression of women in the work place. The glass-ceiling is known as the point where a woman can rise in the work place, when there are men who are able to rise above her. Many women are as capable if not more capable than some men for certain jobs. Yet these women are overlooked for their male counterparts. Women do not get paid as much as men and they do not get the career opportunities that men get. A woman holding the same position as a man can get paid up to 20% less than her male...
Weaker sex?
Yours is not a bad paper and I was in agreement with most of what you said until the end of your essay. I'd like to first answer your question as to "why is a woman not able to handle the stress of actually being President?" You have provided not one bit of compelling evidence to support your implication that a woman couldn't handle the stress. Women are able to handle the stresses of the highest political offices and the fact that no woman has yet been president results from lingering discrimination, not any inability in women to handle stress. In addition, people do not always say that the "first lady really runs everything" and I don't even know what basis you have to make such a statement. Here's another statement that may raise hackles: "No matter how far women have come over time, they are still the lesser sex and will always be shown as weaker than men." Accompanying as it does your implication that women are less able to handle stress than men, I find this statement disturbing. Women can only be considered the lesser sex in connection with how they have been treated. Women may be physically weaker than men, but they are every bit as strong emotionally. I suggest you be more mindful of how you phrase your thoughts so that you are not misunderstood.
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