Blog 2

According to the article “one major gender differentiation is set forth by segregations of jobs by sex. Sex segregation is set by how some women have been discriminated to get access to certain jobs or careers. The article also mentions how there is wage gap between men and women.

As I started my college career I frankly did not know what to do for a major so I sort of explored many types of areas. In one of the areas of interest was teaching. In which the majority where women,which, should depict sex segregation and of what a women should aspire. As I got involved with some other ASU students I started to notice a relation between gender and career goals. One of the departments that I saw of most relation was in the engineering department. Most of the ASU students that I became acquainted with where in this field and I noticed that only a few rarely where women

There is actually so many ways that sex segregation is implied in advisors or professors. In particularly the justice studies department there is more women as professors than men. As a freshman my original major was criminology I took several classes and I just came to realize from this class that in the criminology department there are less women professors and more men as professors.

Sex segregation is indeed upon our society since the beginning of our development. In the article research entails that there is actually a sex barrier of what type of career or aspirations to want or not to aspire due to their sex but more importantly what is implied for you to do according to your gender. This is typically influenced by the type of family you are in or how you are raised. For example in my family as a girl I was not expected to aspire to be a police officer or anything related to politics or government related careers or jobs. I was sort of persuaded by my mother to become a teacher. She always told me it would be a stable career and I would have time for me (or my family). However, when I told her I was interested in criminology and more specifically getting in the DEA she told me it was too dangerous. I recently asked why did she tell me this and told me it was because it is dangerous and its not due to my gender. However as I questioned if I was a guy would it still be the same, she paused, for a moment and said yes, but I knew it would not be the same.As the matter of career wise my mother has somewhat now open up towards my other siblings so they can study what they want unlike me that she somewhat controlled my education aspirations. My education was very patriarchal in the sense that in the beginning of my college education my mother told me what to study, she wanted either for me to be a social worker,nurse, or a teacher, or even a lawyer, but it was out of the question anything related to using force, uniforms:police,FBI,CIA,DEA,etc. As if men where only capable of this job.

In fact when I got married she suggested to me that I was not to be the one that had to work that that was the sole responsibility of my husband and not mine. My mother has been liberal in the way that she does control the household but at the same time has still ideas that the men is the responsible for bringing the sole income to the house.

Patriarchal Socialization at schools is also the same way. Schools try to at some point ask students to aspire great things however, most of the pictures about astronauts, doctors, nurses implying a certain gender roles. In the beginning I mentioned that I was an aspiring teacher at force. I met fellow students that where mostly women. There is still a notion that women are better teachers or that women should be teachers at least that is what is perceived when you enter a classroom where there are 35 women aspiring to become teachers and only 1 men. There is still a patriarchy on what a women should study or aspire. Once again there is a gender barrier.

The last report to reflect on was the radio report “Moms become Breadwinners As Job Losses Hit Men” from the NPR report explains some shocking numbers and statistics. One major themes that made me reflect was the reality in which as I women I live but I do not see. I found it very interesting that as our country is suffering an economic breakdown men are the ones that are losing their jobs and not women. Most of these jobs are related to manufacturing and construction in which men are dominating. However, the healthcare system which is mainly mad by ¾ of women is still on the rise. The reporter asked if women then are not loosing anything now knowing that those suffering losing their jobs are men. The most shocking thing was revealed to me even though, if I do think about it it really is true. Women do not tend to have any type of insurance or healthcare benefit due to the type of jobs they have in which, men in particularly hold jobs that are related to unions which have these types of benefits. The wage gap still persist even if men are still unemployed. Although men continue to lose their jobs women still have to work as much or even more than men without benefits or something that men usually get without any work due to their job related field or skill. It is really shoking to see that there is still political and moral progress needed toward the true dignity of the women in regards to work and income equality.