Social Construction Of Gender Stereotypes

In history and today’s world, why don’t men understand women? Why is it hard for women’s voices to be heard? Women have not been appreciated for decades. Many historical events have happened that have affected women having no say in anything. Women have always been told by taking care of the house or doing everything their partner tells them to do. It has gone on for many years and still some countries this is still ongoing. Many people get confused between gender and sex. Gender is the masculine and feminine characteristics and behavior in cultural context and sex is biological characteristic of male and female placed in specific categories. Gender roles are a social construction which men and woman have been given roles for people to accept …show more content…
Society and culture play a big part socially. People have stereotyped women and men. Throughout their entire lives, men and women have been given roles since they were young such as boys are supposed to play with cars or dinosaurs and girls are supposed to play will dolls or dress up and if they do not, the society would question or girls are supposed to wear pink and boys are supposed to wear blue. If a guy were to play with a doll, people would call him names because society has made us think that. Biological race has become an issue in the society in the social construction of race. Many people label others by their race or how their race has been stereotyped in the social aspect. In Section Three: The Making of Race, Sex, And Empire in an article The Social Construction of Race by Ian F. Haney Lopez talks about a court case that happened in 1922, Ozawa v. United States “when Japanese-born Takao Ozawa applied for citizenship he asserted, as required by the Naturalization Act, that he was a “’white person” (Lopez 52). A person’s color should not have divided them racially. The society targets people of the color black as someone who would do a crime, Asian people as smart and intelligent, Muslims as terrorist, etc. Social media and internet has made people in the community put labels on them. Negativity and positivity have been depicted a trait in people that their group is either smart, stupid, weaker, stronger etc. In the …show more content…
They have been portrayed as they are not capable of doing anything in the society. David Arnold states in the article Women and Medicine “that there was no proven demand for women doctors in India and, second that while women were “’physically, mentally, and morally fitted for the profession of nursing, they were quite unsuited to the demands and skills required of doctors” (Arnold 83). Women did not stop if they were being underestimated. They showed the world that they can do their roles efficiently. An example, Queen Victoria urged women to practice medicine because she started a fund “a fund was duly established in 1855 commonly called the Dufferin Fund but formally known as the National Association for Supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India” (Arnold 83). This fund has provided women of India training and teachings, and instructions to be doctors, nurses or midwives. The Dufferin Fund was a big impact in India and the Western Civilization because women in India were getting an opportunity to help women that were in need in hospitals. Early in the 90’s, many women were inferior to men in Muslim countries like India and Pakistan and Egypt. Women had restrictions such as to leave the house with a special purpose, have limited contact with people, do home tasks. They were denied their own rights and forced. If women do not follow rules, they are shameless and talked within the society. Women in these parts of the