Instructions:
Respond to the two discussion post posted by my classmates. It is very important that you are respectful while responding and giving feedback. Use MLA citations if you used
any sources.
Important:
BELOW is the discussion question that the responses are based on. DO NOT answer the question, this is
just for you to understand what the topic is.
The question we answered: (do NOT respond to this)
Sexism is typically seen as something overt, observable, and individual, like something that one person does to another person. One can indeed often observe sexism in action in individual interactions, but it’s also woven throughout the structure of society. One can see evidence of gender inequality in who ends up in positions of power (more often it’s men), and who gets paid more (again, men), but the consequences of sexism even reach into how we feel and what we do about it.
1. Using Chapter 4 in our course text, explain what gender inequality is and why it exists in 100-150 words. Quote and properly cite the text.
2. Using Jaschik’s article Punishing Women for Being Smart, the AAUW’s The Simple Truth about The Gender Pay Gap, and the course text, in 100-150 words, describe several ways that gender inequality manifests in the workplace. Quote and properly cite these materials.
3. Using the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger and the video lecture on Gender, Emotion & Anger, explain in 100-150 words how gender inequality affects women’s emotions. Quote and properly cite these materials.
1. THE FIRST PERSON YOU ARE RESPONDING TO:
1. Gender inequality is discrimination against one specific gender causing the other gender to be
“superior” or be prioritized more. In the text, it states that ” gender inequality stems from a complex mixture of cultural and structural factors that must be addressed if gender inequality is to be reduced further than it already has been since the 1970s.” Some of the main causes of gender inequality are uneven access to education, job segregation, poor medical care, and lack of legal protections.
2. In Jashcik’s article, she says how inequality can affect women’s emotions because in a study, 2,016 job applications were submitted and men received calls for further discussions and interviews twice as often as women when they had equal grades. As a woman, hearing this information affected my emotions because in this specific study, both men and woman had an equal educational level and still them men were being favored over when deciding who to hire for the job. In the video lecture on Gender, Emotion, & Anger, it
talks about how anger can lead to sadness which I think is the main reason gender inequality is affecting women’s emotions. If we look book on the job study, woman were so angry that men were being favored
that their anger turned into sadness, dwelling on their emotions.
3. Gender Inequality manifests in the workplace in many ways. The main way is that women are being paid less than men. In the article The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap, the author states how women
working full time are paid 83 cents to every dollar that men make. This may not seem like a lot but in the
long run, men are making a lot more money than woman and they are both working full time. Also in the
article, it states how woman have only 70% of what men do.
2. THE SECOND PERSON YOU ARE RESPONDING TO:
1. There have been huge advancements for women since the 1960s, but gender inequality persists and
manifests itself in many ways. To first know what gender inequality is, we need to figure out what exactly
gender is. In the course text it says, “Gender is a social concept. It refers to the social and cultural differences a society assigns to people based on their (biological) sex” (Chapter 4). This definition states that men and women are assigned what they can or can’t do. Gender inequality is when men and women are not
treated equally because of their gender. The reason it exists is because as a society, we tend to assign
certain roles to a certain gender. A lot of the time people will assume that a person isn’t qualified because of their gender. There are examples of this in corporate jobs as well as professional sports. For example,
the pay gap between men and women is much more significant than it should be.
2. Gender inequality manifests in the workplace in many more ways than one. First of all, women are being punished for getting good grades whereas men are getting a free pass for having a bad GPA. When it comes to men getting looked at for certain jobs and positions, Jaschik says, “For men, grade points average
doesn’t seem to matter” (Jaschik). This is unfair to women as their intelligence and skills are being
overlooked because of their gender. “This study comes at a time of growing evidence that female students are outperforming their male counterparts academically in college.” (Jaschik). This is terrible for not only
our women, but for everyone who does business as it means the most talented people are not filling
positions.
3. After reading chapter 1 and watching the video lecture, I believe that gender inequality affects women’s emotions very intensely in a negative way. In the video it says, “Men more frequently associate feeling
powerful with experiencing anger, but women, notably, associate powerlessness with anger” (Video Lecture). This goes to show that the powerlessness women feel when they experience gender inequality triggers extreme anger. Women tend to be more emotional than men so things like gender inequality can hold a
huge weight over them. To make it worse, “Our society is infinitely creative in finding ways to dismiss and pathologize women’s rage” (Chemaly). Instead of trying to compromise and figure out a solution to their
emotions, men often dismiss women and their feelings.
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