Angela Chatman
Dr. Carrell
Advanced Comp
04-16-04
Gender Roles
Women and men have extremely different roles in society. These gender roles are very evident in the way we see ourselves as women, which is based on how we have been treated in the past and the actions in history we have taken toward gender equality. Katha Pollitt expresses her feminist view in her work "Why boys don't play with dolls."
"Instead of looking at kids to "prove" that differences in behavior by sex are innate, we can look at the ways we raise kids as an index to how unfinished the feminist revolution really is, and how tentatively it is embraced even by adults who fully expect their daughters to enter previously male-dominated professions and their sons to change diapers."
If progression is to be the main objective towards equality for the modern woman, it is necessary that we examine the process by which we are raising our children. In her article Pollitt expresses the notion that she believes that the "barbie doll" represents what society labels as the ideal woman, this social gender-based stereotype has an extreme influence on the way we raise our kids.
Dr. Carrell
Advanced Comp
04-16-04
Gender Roles
Women and men have extremely different roles in society. These gender roles are very evident in the way we see ourselves as women, which is based on how we have been treated in the past and the actions in history we have taken toward gender equality. Katha Pollitt expresses her feminist view in her work "Why boys don't play with dolls."
"Instead of looking at kids to "prove" that differences in behavior by sex are innate, we can look at the ways we raise kids as an index to how unfinished the feminist revolution really is, and how tentatively it is embraced even by adults who fully expect their daughters to enter previously male-dominated professions and their sons to change diapers."
If progression is to be the main objective towards equality for the modern woman, it is necessary that we examine the process by which we are raising our children. In her article Pollitt expresses the notion that she believes that the "barbie doll" represents what society labels as the ideal woman, this social gender-based stereotype has an extreme influence on the way we raise our kids.