Project description
My project topic is “ Does society support men and much as it supports women?”. My project is going to include the different issues men and women face in today’s society. Things like unfair pay, unfair job opportunities, unfair treatment, stereotypes, image expectations and the list can go on. Over time society has created an image of women and men. Women are supposed to stay home, take care of the kids, cook, clean,and maintain the house. While Men are supposed to go out to work and bring back the money. Back then Women weren’t allowed to have jobs, vote and in many places education wasn’t even an opportunity for young girls. Over time that has changed but there are still many issues with the modern day society. For this project I had to use synthesis as my base for building my ideas. For synthesis I had to include multiple ideas and tie them into one. My ideas were gender roles, stereotypes and society. I tied these all into the main problem which is gender inequality.
Gender Roles vs Stereotypes
English
For English I created a website focusing on gender inequality and what contributes to it. This part of my project will include my research on how gender roles, stereotypes, and society all play a part. Also how these 3 things affect society and how women and men are viewed because of it. I explain what a gender role is and what a stereotype is. I also list some examples of each. In addition to that, I included poetry from the perspective of a person who took the idea of gender roles and described them in a way that was very thorough and meaningful. My idea for English was to explain how stereotypes AND gender roles both contribute to the main idea of gender inequality.
What is gender ?
English
This poem is called what is gender and because since I had to incorporate poetry, I decided to choose and analyze a poem that in my opinion covered the problem with gender roles perfectly and powerfully. Though the poem might seem harsh it is just the reality of what gender roles really are.
Gender inequality over time
History
For history I looked back into the history of gender inequality and the steps from then to now. A lot has changed from the suffrage to the wage income today . I include a graph from the income change from then to now and how things have improved with the movements that have occurred resulting in how things run in the modern day. At the top I include how gender role has a role in that and I develop questions to what would happen if gender roles didn't exist.
Just above water
Art