I hope you all as a class found interviewing people about this topic as fun as I did. It was interesting to see how the different levels of tolerance for gender has changed over the years. In this post I will label my opinion as 20, the person 20 years older than me labeled as 40, and 60 for the person 40 years older than me.
Through the analysis of my opinions as well as my interviewee’s, I was able to see a significant difference in the way that gender is and was accepted. The farther one goes back in time, the more genders were separated. 40 years ago, men were seen as a lot more dominate over females and had more power in the family and workplace. 20 years ago the separation was not as strong as back then. However, it was noted that sexual harassment in the workplace was the norm and had to be tolerated. Male bosses found it perfectly acceptable to take advantage of their female employees whenever they wanted. Yet, today women demand much more respect and equality in the home, school, and workplace.
Other significant differences I’ve found were the acceptance of homosexuals and the discrimination of races. 40 years ago, racism was still a big part of America. Black and Asians were severely mistreated and were not seen as equals as whites. Homosexuals were all completely shunned from society and most, if not all, were still hiding in the closet. Today, people realize more equality and freedom no matter what their gender, race, or sexual orientation. Everyone no matter what the difference is more tolerated and the individual is more accepted in society.
-Jossshhuaa
Dear Jossshhuaa,
ReplyDeleteI also found this assignment to be interesting because we normally do not look back because we do not have any reason to, but ever since we looked back in time as a class, I found out many things different back then than how it is today. Like you said, it was strange to even have women in the workplace, so men would take advantage of it, but now they are to be treated as equal as a man in a workplace. Minority races are being treated more as any other regular human being than some alien from another country, and we are finally accepting the homosexuals into American society when it was the worst thing to be a few decades ago.
I guess I can define the past as a time full of fear and power over others, while today is defined as competitive and equal in most things we do; unfortunately, we still have some old bad habits that exist in some people out there in this country..
Thanks for sharing again! Hope you enjoyed writing this post as much as I did! :)
- Jeff!
Jossshhuaa!!
ReplyDeleteGreat Post! From the 40 to the 20 there were quite a few differences. Woman were the house wives and men were the breadwinners. I wonder what it was like for those few women (the 40 yrs older) that were trying to try to break into the work place. They were def looked down upon and told they couldn't make it. Then 20 years later they made it only to be disrespected and harassed. They fought long and hard to make it to where woman are today. Like you mentioned to it was not just woman that have been fighting to make it in the business world minorities have too. It def makes you grateful that today we are pretty close to equality (but we are def not there yet).