Category: Gender Inequality/Gender Discrimination

In ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ written by prestigious feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, after the birth of her baby, our nameless narrator suffers from postpartum depression and is forced by her dominant doctor’s husband, John, to weeks of bed rest. While in the confines of bed, the narrator starts a rapid descent into madness and becomes…

The place of women in society and their struggle over the centuries for getting gender equality has been in the spotlight of history. Victorian womens lives were differed significantly by its uniqueness, and during the entire 19th century with the womens movement they managed to sign crucial achievements in the history of whole feminism. The…

Prior to World War II women were often restrained to domestics, laundresses, secretaries, and dishwashers, or did not work at all. There were very limited opportunities for them to excel in the professional sphere, for at the time, their work was not vital to the success of the United States. It was not until World…

Mary Wollstonecraft lived in the 18th century. The way women were treated, and the rights available to them were drastically different than they are now. One of the key factors in understanding Mary Wollstonecraft’s view is what the general view of men and women in their society was at the time. The general population seemed…

Today, women are and will continue to be rising up the ranks in culture. Unfortunately, this was not the case for women of the 1800s as seen in Charlotte Perkins Gillmans shorty story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper. The story is narrated by, as well as told about an upper-class, a married woman who has been diagnosed…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American writer, lecturer, and feminist intellectual whose literary output apart from being devoted to social, political, and economic injustice in general, is mostly sacrificed to the rights of women and their unequal status in society. The work which perfectly depicts all her ideas and believes is The Yellow Wallpaper …

Bad Mentality Most people still think that women are too weak to play sports. One example is from a WNBA player; Elena Delle Donne who stated It is hard to fall in love with a sport or team or a player if you have never seen them and do not know much about them ……

The social cultural factor of focus will be gender ideologies in society, including the participation in physical activity and sport. Due to the negative connotations and judgments with women and girls participating in sport or being physically active, there is a low number compared to boys and men. The reasons as to why there is…

The story of The Yellow Wallpaper discusses how depression will drive the mind to experience conflicts that will eventually lead to a mental breakdown. When Charlotte Perkins Gilman got married and had a baby what is considered the norm. The husband was isolating her by keeping her locked up in their home away from any…

Race, gender and class are socially constructed ideologies that shape the experience of individuals. The first social hierarchy is racial oppression which focuses on a specific race with cruel restraints. This social form of oppression includes mistreatment or exploitation which is socially supported. The second social oppression is class oppression which involves the discrimination based…