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I Love Equal Opportunities: Gender Stereotypes

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What comes to mind when you hear “women of 1950s?” As you look back in time you notice that all the magazines and advertisement and T.V. commercial promotes stay at home mothers. In these advertisement you see a smiling woman bringing loads of food to the table while her husband reads a newspaper or a women smiling while washing dishes. These are roles that society felt that women fit into and they should embrace these roles. Some women assume this position, as seen in I Love Lucy Season 2 Episode 1, “Job Switching”. Lucy was a very attentive housewife until her husband, Ricky, challenge her into a role change. Throughout the episode we see them struggle with this role change, and at the end they agreed to let the women stay at home while the men work. However, plenty of women in this time looked passed those advertisements and took a different route and looked for jobs opportunities. By 1960s 40% of women had …show more content…

Women make up the majority of professional workers in many countries (fifty-one percent in the United States). Forty percent of women are Managers, thirty are Directors, twenty-seven percent are Vice President, as twenty-four percent are Senior Vice President. And this list continues to demonstrate women in higher position. Women are also earning ninety-three percent of what men the same age as them make, which is $14.96/hr. This shows that women today are coming up in the work place and the view of a housewife is relatively unfitting. Even in television there are strong woman. In Scandal, Kerry Washington plays Oliva Pope. Her character is known to fix scandals against presidential candidates. She is who everybody runs to when presidential candidate’s private lifestyle comeS out to the public. Olivia Pope is not a housewife; she is a hard working woman with a very successful reputation. Her character proves that we as a society have made an effort to change our perspective on a women’s

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