Final Blog Post #10 Women's Discrimination Project

I think this project was very beneficial. It was really eye-opening to read all of the statistics from the past and modern statistics about several aspects of women's discrimination. You still don't realize how often this goes on in the lives of many women and how many different types of discrimination there are. I'm a 15 year old girl and the people that are my age as well only experience a percentage of this so it was just really interesting to learn about. It makes you realize that something needs to be done about some of the things that go on in society whether people think they have already been taken care of or not. I enjoyed this project and it allows you to think about things that still need to be done in the world today and has you to brainstorm different ideas on how we could fix them and in my opinion, that's what the people of my generation should be doing nowadays.

Blog #9 Women's Discrimination Project

While doing this project, my group had been researching sexual assault and rape cases during the Women's Rights Movement and before then. They came across several interesting facts like the fact that women could not deny having sex with their husbands because they had legal authority over them and women were considered to be property to men. Marital rape wasn't recognized until the mid 70's and wasn't criminalized until 1993. Also, enslaved women could not refuse to have sex with their masters and if they brought the case to court they could not testify against them otherwise it would be considered disrespectful. Lastly, if a women was raped it was only considered rape if the woman was white and the perpetrator was black. This means that if a white man raped a white woman or a white man raped a black woman, it would not be considered rape in court. It's very interesting to me how some things have and haven't changed between then and now. Sex trafficking still exists in our modern society and women typically don't speak up about it in court just like they did in the past. Women also don't typically speak up about marital rape even though they are not considered property of their husbands in the eyes of a jury or a judge. But, it's a good thing that race has nothing to do with rape anymore otherwise a lot of women could still be suffering from these types of situations more than they did back in the past. Rape is rape and should not be tolerated by anyone in any type of society. 

Blog #8 Women's Discrimination Project

My group and I while working on this project have come up with several ways that discrimination against women can be taken care of in hopes of it becoming less of a problem. We think that it could be effective if women were given equal wages as men who have the same position as them within their occupations. This would take care of the approximate 25% less that women make compared to men. Also, within the workplace, we think that women should be given more of a chance when it comes to being higher up in a company such as a boss, manager, CEO, etc. This would lessen the large percentage of men who have management roles in a workplace and make it a more equal playing field for both men and women. Lastly, we think that boys in their required health classes should be taught self control so that women can feel more comfortable and not have to worry about getting raped as much as they do now. One thing that everyone needs to understand more is that not just women but anybody should be treated with respect no matter what they look like, what gender they are, etc. 

Blog #7 Women's Discrimination Project

After doing research for this project, I've realized that the discrimination that happened in the past is still happening today and developing over time. We have made much progress though. We can get a thorough education in a college and go to school, we can participate in public speaking, we have our right to vote, run for president and so much more. But often we find that since have all of those privileges, other forms of discrimination are neglected. Before the Women's Rights Movement, women were expected to take care of domestic duties which I explained in my previous post and are still to this day expected to complete those jobs more than men are expected to do them. Some men still believe they are superior over women making them think it is okay to rape and abuse them. Just like in the past when a women could not say no to having intercourse with her husband and when men had legal custody over women. Women are still expected to dress like a girl just like when they were expected to wear dresses and skirts instead of pants. The same discrimination is still existing in modern society it is just in a different context than it was before and it is something that Americans should work towards fixing. 

Blog #6 Women's Discrimination Project

Before the Women's Rights Movement, women within society were expected to take care of domestic duties. That includes cooking, cleaning, caring for children, etc. Women were required to wear skirts and dresses and dress "like a lady." Nowadays, women are still expected to take care of things around our homes more so than men are. Our expectations on how we look though have developed a bit more. We are expected to have a certain body type, dress a certain way, have perfect skin and so much more. Women are often judged or turned down by not only just men but other women as well all because of the way they look or dress. This creates a HUGE problem for women because they feel like they cannot express themselves and have to meet all of society's requirements instead. 

Blog #5 Women's Discrimination Project

I've recently learned that women make 76 cents to every man's dollar. It's approximately 25% less than what a man get paid. 24 cents doesn't seem like a ton of money but it still is a significant amount that all adds up. I think this form of discrimination could be easily fixed if men and women within their certain occupations made the same amount of money if they held the same position as the opposite gender in the workplace. Also, women of all races and cultural backgrounds should be paid equal amounts as well because just from coming from a different background does not change who you are as a person and nor does your gender. What you look like does not define you. 

Blog #4 Women's Discrimination Project

Women within the workplace are often discriminated against for several reasons. One specifically being their management roles. Men are more often to have higher roles in management than women are, like being a boss in a company. Women are less then 40% of those with management occupations. They are disproportionately represented with many occupations such as electrical engineers, computer networking, architects, ect. This is very unfair to women because we are not, with some occupations, given an equal opportunity to be a boss of a company of a manager. This could be easily fixed within several companies if women were given an equal chance to become a manager or a boss and were considered more often to hold that high of a status in the workplace. 

Blog #3 Women's Discrimination Project

While I was finding my research for this project, I came across several different scenarios where a man, went and shot up or killed several women at a time simply because of her gender. Majority were recently or within the past 10 years, which is extremely disappointing. In Pittsburgh, George Sodini opened fire in a gym killing 3 women and injuring 9 others. On Sodini's blog, people later learned that he specifically targeted women because they were female. In 2006 there were two other occurrences. The first one was where a gunman went into an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania; he sent all of boys outside and opened fire on over a dozen girls. He killed 5. The second occurrence was in Colorado; a man sexually assaulted six female students that he had take into hostage before killing all 6 of them. Just between these three past situations, it shows how big of a problem discrimination against women in America is. 

Blog #2 Women's Discrimination Project

Just recently, my group passed out our surveys to 10 people each giving us combined data from 30 people total. Our results were actually very surprising to me. I thought that more people would say that women today are not discriminated against but actually, everyone who took the survey said that women today are still discriminated against. We asked 5 questions total and all of our results supported our argument and what we would be saying in our speech. Since these random 30 kids from our school think that women are still discriminated against, I wonder why none of them have stepped up to do something about it or even stop being sexist towards females themselves.I think if kids did this at our school, it could improve the amounts of bullying/hazing that goes on on a day to day basis.