Sex Stereotypes and Gender Inequality.

Sex Stereotypes and Gender Inequality

'When Ann Hopkins came up for partnership at Price Waterhouse in 1982, she looked like a shoo-in for a promotion. Of the 88 candidates -- all the others were male -- she had the best record at generating new business and securing multimillion-dollar contracts for the Big Eight accounting firm. Yet Hopkins' nomination was put on hold after she was evaluated by several male partners as being too "macho" and in need of a "charm school." One of them advised her to "walk more femininely, talk more femininely, dress more femininely, wear makeup, have her hair styled and wear jewelery." Instead she quit the firm...' (Time magazine, 15 May 1989)

Secretary, homemaker, florist, nurse, and primary school teacher. Fireman, truck driver, bulldozer operator and lawyer. Just looking at these professions and I am sure you have an image of a woman in your mind for the first sentence and a man for the second.

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Pictures from Equal Pay Day actions in Leuven.

Pictures from Equal Pay Day actions in Leuven.

Why does these professions paint a picture of a particular gender in your mind? Stereotypes. Most of the population is indoctrinated by the agenda of gender stereotyping. In this essay, I will give a whirlwind overview of this social construct and its evolution from the obvious to more covert in the western world.

Whose story is it anyway?

Is our genetic makeup such that we are trying to achieve something that goes against what nature has built in to our thoughts and reality or have we become victims of our own categorization from the start? We must first look back in history. Looking at the word itself reveals a hidden agenda. Broken down, the word history (His Story) one could see that the word itself tells of history from the male perspective.

The king of the castle

Post Industrialism male and...