God made woman from the rib of man.
Women have forever been instrumental to the lives of man. Somewhere along the
way, man’s interpretation of women’s roles in various leadership situations
became wrong and has affected life ever since. In biblical days, women have
played the backseat in the lives of important prophets. Their voices were silent
and controlled by their husband. They were treated as objects and men only used
them to have children. The sexual this misuse of women and the mental abuse of
women in the bible is unbearable. When
the bible began to spread, and more people turned to Christianity as their
guiding instructions, they saw this and used it to rationalize their treatment
of women. This came over to America and based on free religion practices it
began to spread. Christianity was seen as the dominant religion and even people
who didn’t believe in it started to practice this tactic because it was seen
everyday in their environment. Men rationalized it through slavery by adding
that masculinity was a big part of showing a dominant leader to the slaves and
the only way the slaves would obey. Masculinity became a big reason why leadership
positions and government jobs were held by men and not women. Women didn’t have
the same rights as a man because they were seen as this house wife. This woman
who is supposed to stay home take care of the kids and make sure the house is
in order. But in fact, women have shown countless times over and over again
that they can be or were smarter and wiser than their man counterparts. Fast-forwarding
to the civil rights movement, we can see some of the background of why the
women weren’t in leadership positions. The leaders on organizations wanted a
man because the white people that were in opposition of them wouldn’t respect
their demands if they felt that a woman that they thought should be in a
kitchen cooking or seen as property running the campaign. That’s why in the
movement you rarely see women but in fact they were the brains behind the beginning
of the movement. It was them who started advocating for change and taking actions
towards that. Why don’t we trust women to be in leadership positions like president
or CEO of a major corporation? Are we scared of that women would surpass us in
exceeding expectations?
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You are SO right! Women have been over looked all throughout history. There are instances where women are unable to take positions because of their gender and on other occasions they take the leadership positions but then are not given credit for their work. The questions that you ask raise great points. Women are capable of taking these positions but since it hasn't been the societal norm people freak out because they don't like change and men want to keep their power.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting article because gender roles do play into the civil rights movement. There were countless women who performed courageous acts or led groups of people for a common cause in the movement for racial equality. They gain far less attention or recognition than the male leaders, which reveals society's views on the inferiority of women.
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