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This paper examines institutions in the United States and how they benefit men, at the expense of women's rights. The two "institutions" examined are religion and the business world. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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equality and equal rights. "Feminism," the concept by which women should be treated the same as men in terms of work and career, had its official launch during the 1970s,
but ever since men and women have been placed on this earth, it seems, there has been a struggle for equality. Even today, in the 21st century, women cannot claim
parity with their male colleagues. This paper will analyze some instances in which male preference, or bias, is hurting women in various areas, including career and even holding of religious
offices. One area in which women still have a ways to go in terms of parity with their male counterparts is the
workforce. Its true that during the past three decades, women have made amazing strides in breaking the glass ceiling and capturing management positions.
The prejudice against women in the U.S. workplace stretches pretty much all the way back to the 19th century. Christopher Keep, in his article "The Cultural Work of the
Type-Writer Girl," discusses a visit that poet Rudyard Kipling made to San Francisco in 1887, during which he claimed he was "driven to distraction" by a "new species of woman,
the Type-Writer Girl" (Keep, 1997, p. 401). Interestingly enough, Kipling further questioned one of these "girls," only to learn that she hoped to be rescued from the drudgery of the
keyboard by finding a man and marriage (Keep, 1997). There were other women, however, who genuinely enjoyed working and earning their own pay, and Keep very nicely documents the reaction
to these women; namely, they would be poor family women, they would "unsex" themselves and ". . . endanger that continuous transmission of cultural values from mother to children on
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