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Socialized Sexism


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This paper asserts that sexism in America is socialized. Examples of sexism in America from a very young age to an old age are given to support the idea that sexism is engrained into American society in an endless loop of discrimination and harassment.

Results of Yale University’s Implicit Assumption Test (IAT)
On the gender test I received a score of: “You have a moderate automatic preference between females and science.” That score places me in the 3% of those who have taken the test who believe the same as me. This number is alarming for many reasons. Not only does it display the perceived gender gap in the sciences and liberal arts, it can be ...

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to sexism and the indirect domination of one gender over another. The first hint at a sexist difference is the bearer of the children. Children see their mom as a place where they can take comfort, be safe, be relaxed and soothed, and be protected. The father is seen as the person who goes off to work and provides for the family. He is also the child’s playmate, showing it the different types of gender specific toys. From the start, a child is indirectly socialized to see that men and women are different and that the mother is the care-taker of the family and the father earns the money. Later on in life, the child may carry out this indirect gender socialization by the way that he or she treats and expects to be treated by members of the opposite sex. Many people find a over-dominating women offensive, because the woman does not fit the description of their mother. Accepting a strong willed woman becomes difficult in our society because of the indirect ...

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Added: 9/14/2007 03:49:26 AM
Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1176
Pages: 5

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