Feminism Essay, Research Paper

In the past and present women have had to endure sexism as a part of everyday life. This is unfair and unjust to the female species. In this paper I am going to be talking about some of the issues of sexism and how they affect women. Some of the issues I will be talking about are the white males club and how non-membership effects women. What are the benefits of having a membership to it. How women are kept in their place by society and by themselves. How has this unequal affected women through their lives and the business world. If women are being liberated or not. What types of problems women are experiencing. These are the issues we will be discussing in this paper. The first issue we will be discussing in this paper is the White Males Club and the benefits of being a member are. To become a member of the white males club is easy if your white and a male, but on the other hand if you?re a women, black, or Native American it?s a different story. The Native Americans had to endure many hardships such as genocide, broken treaties, club-controlled reservations, and false promises. The Blacks they had two ways to be treated. The southern blacks were permitted to do three things. They could care for white children, cook, or do some housekeeping. In the north they were put into ghettos and could do what they pleased as long as they kept their distance. White women on the other hand were a different question because they were white and women. This questioning left room for white males to come in and manipulate them. Because of this odd position many women praised the white male protection and forgot about their own suppressed living conditions. For women in the south this meant protection from Black male assault. The other section of women realized that they didn?t have that much power as they thought they did.

Over the course of history not much has changed women got to vote and gain a little independence but not much. Today the average man still makes more than the average women. A woman is still far more likely to be poorer than a man. So you have to think to yourself have women really been liberated. I think they have but only to some extent. They have made some good gains like they can hold actual corporate positions, and vote. So they have made some gains but not that much. They still don?t get paid as much and it?s harder for them to find a job. The question is if women should hold jobs they think so but a lot of negative effects have come from holding a job. Susan Faludi states in her article Blame It on Feminism ? Professional women are suffering ?burnout? and succumbing to an ?infertility epidemic.? What does this say about women and their ability to handle stress not anything good. Should we blame these problems on Feminism? Or should we blame it on women getting power but not as much as men? Susan Faludi also states this? If women are so equal, why do they represent two-thirds of all poor adults.? If women were so equal would all of this be happening?

In Society today do men keep women in their place or do women contribute to that. In the article Stoppers: Keeping Women in Their Place Anne Schaef she states? It is very difficult for men to understand how fragile our trust in our perceptions is, how easily we can be talked out of them, and how terrified we are of being labeled sick, bad, crazy, or stupid. The part goes two ways. Women take part in it by not standing their ground because of their self-conciseness about themselves. Men take part in it by making the women fell guilty. Anne Schaef states? Whenever a woman is not fulfilling her prescribed role or doing what is expected if her, she can easily be made to fell guilty. As you can see it?s a two-sided thing if the women could just hold there ground and the men didn?t put guilt trips on them they wouldn?t this problem.

The next issue I am going to talk about is why females become feminists. Anna Quindlen states in her article On Being Female ? I would like to say that I became a feminist to make the world better for women everywhere, but in truth it was to make the world better for me.? This raises an interesting question did any female really become feminist to help the whole world or just herself? Most women become feminist because they fell like the world is to male dominated society. They see male dominated churches, businesses, and worlds. I don?t see why they hate their lives so much. They could sit at home and do nothing except cook, clean, and sit around witch is better than going to work. Economists believe that working wives are creating more unstable home lives.

As you can see women have been oppressed over the years by men but this isn?t a one sided argument. Women have some blame in this problem if they could stand their ground there wouldn?t be any problem. If women can do as much as men do why can?t they stand there ground and fight back. I would just like to say in this last part that I totally disagree with this paper and think it was ridicules to make us write from a females point of view, and not have the girls right from the males point of view. I believe this was a very sexist paper and making us write this paper was defeating the purpose of this paper. By making write this paper you are striving to defeat sexism were you really created it. Making men right from the female point of view and not having the Women right from the male?s point of view you have just created what was meant to be destroyed only this time it was on the other side. You said in the beginning the point of this paper was to make me do the laundry, but in reality if I worked and she worked I cooked all my food and did dishes then it would be an unequal relationship. By her not doing something around the house you have just created sexism so you see sexism will never be destroyed because someone will always be creating it from either side, as did you. I?m not calling you sexist I?m calling us all sexist because we all help to create it.