First of all, we need to thank Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton for fighting almost all their lives for Women's Suffrage Rights. It's a shame that they didn't see their hard work grow into fruits, in which 50 percent of the population (women) were given the rights to vote in the 1920's. It is only right to acknowledge that since then, the equality of women has most definitely improved in the perspective of business, government, etc.
This equality, however, is still not implemented in social perspectives today. Women all over the world are suffering in many ways. Media, for one, is one of the greatest contributions to the unfair gender roles. Even though the Media has transformed the way of communication, it has also down graded women dramatically. Businesses commercialize the female body to sell their products through the media. Unfortunately, this tactic has worked, and worse the way media depicts the female body poisons the minds of the young. Girls look at these pictures and videos of these sexy women doing sexual things will believe that it is necessary to act and look this way to be liked. On the other hand, boys look at these pictures and videos will believe that only women like these are desirable. Therefore, girls lose their true selves to be liked.
Unfair gender roles
By laniluo - Posted on October 15th, 2008
Tagged: Social Issues
• Shared responsibility
I agree with you, women are still commercialized by the media, but I still am glad that, at least in America, their bodies are not a legal commodity. Sex trafficking still exists in many parts of the world, as does prostitution, both of which are some of the worst affronts to human rights and dignity that I know of. Even worse, in some rural parts of the world today, women are traded like cattle and seen as personal possessions. So while it is bad that women are depicted and used the way they are in America, we can say that we have come much further than the rest of the world as far as the rights of women.