"Gender refers to the personal traits and social position that members of a society attach to being male and female. Gender involves hierarchy, leading sociologists to talk of gender stratification, the unequal distribution of wealth, power and privilege between men and women."
Sexism has always been a normal thing. The mail carrier was always called a mailman and the flight attendants always stewardesses. To my grandmother, this was never an offending thing. When she was little she learned how to cook and clean, mend clothes and watch after the children. However, when she grew up she went to work but after being married for a few years she had my mother and went to stay in the home like a she had learned a wife should do.
I understand many women like to work, and because they are women should not affect whether they get the job or how much they are paid. Women can and do work just as hard, if not harder, then men. I knew a woman who had moved here from Russia during 1940's. She had come here to better her life. She had an education from Russia in architecture. When she applied for a job, because they did not know she was a woman they hired her only looking at her resume and the fact that she was top of her class. When she came into work the boss was slightly stunned she was a woman, but did not dismiss her. She told me that for the first few months she worked there she didn't ask a single question. Until she proved to her boss that she was worthy of her job did she finally feel she could converse with her co-workers in a way that was more social. She proved that just because she was a woman doesn't mean she can't work the same as a man.
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