Sammy

Gender equalities and differences are known worldwide, everyday. Even though we might be where you least expect to see gender differences or equalities, they are there. Automatically, we always think of one gender. Some words to us just make us think of a male or female. Robber, doctor, police, male. As for a female would be, teacher, cleaner, or nurse. Even though we think this way, should men and women be treated differently just because of these stereotypes?

“There were more organized sports for boys than girls.” Even though women have the capability to play sports as to men (as we see today) there were barley any organized sports for women. There was only tennis, otherwise, you couldn’t play. As time goes on, more and more girls play sports and not only sports that are known to be “girl sports”. I play ice hockey and many people think that is a “boy sport”. Of course, it was first known to be for boys but soon, not only girls were playing on boys teams, there were girls teams too. Still there are these stereotypes that make the rules different between the violence but as time goes on, those rules might change as did letting girls play. For example, there might be checking in girls hockey because originally, girls weren’t known to be violent have the capability to slam someone against the boards. The rules might change to be the same because of the stereotypes fading away but even if the rules do change, those stereotypes will still be there in some way. Since all of this is true, there are a lot of stereotypes leading to males being superior to females. “My mom stayed home while my dad worked.” Many women were stay at home moms, cooking, cleaning, taking care of the family while the dads worked their hours to put food on the table. The women are still working in this case, but the men were viewed as superior because they made the money for their family. “I am now in charge of cleaning and cooking and my husband is in charge of fixing and preparing.” Many jobs in working in the house, people think is more of a “man’s job” rather than for a woman. Even though the women are capable of doing this, most people just go after the stereotype, not really thinking it through. Most jobs seem more suited for a man than a woman. A lot of these jobs have changed throughout the years from being a “men or women job” Many men were not teachers. Many women were not doctors. “I feel that male doctors showed more respect in medical school to the male students and put more pressure on the female students. Girls had to prove themselves more.” Why was this true? There are gender stereotypes everywhere we go. Even though we try not to follow them, they are always there. Jobs, sports, everyday life, we see gender differences and equalities.

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