Lyndsey+Stewart+RP+Post+5

The topic of sexism is taking me in a lot of different directions and I am still trying to figure out exactly what path I am going to take with it. At this point a lot of my sources have to do with sexism in the workplace, which is a main issue of today’s generation and those before. Discussing women in the workplace also brings up interesting points about role changes. A poem I discovered discussed how many people assumed that a woman’s place was in the home and that women could not live without men because they are not independent enough. The poem states that her husbands faults are okay “because she has him back And doesn’t have to sleep alone.” Now obviously the nation has come a long way and realizes that it’s acceptable to let a woman be independent and essentially equal with a man, however in the Huffington Post, a writer described 11 ways in which workplaces are still sexist. In the article Jillian Berman emphasizes  that “Women get paid 77 cents on the dollar for every dollar a man makes.” When I was a child, I used to think that  women and men were different and unequal. My mother stayed at home with my brothers and I for most of my life, just recently she went back to work. I always pictured myself growing up, getting married, having kids and ironing clothes and serving breakfast to the members of my family. I did not ever think much that I could be the successful one, build a career and get a better education than other men. I really liked how Christopher Hitchens questions us to think  about how children perceive gender roles, “To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?” In my sociology class an article stated  that a man and a woman submitted the same application to a company, however the man had a greater chance of getting the position simply because he was male. All of these sources related to personal feelings and experience has led me to dig deeper into sexism in the workplace.