When I was looking at the website fbomb, this article jumped out at me. I never realized how we naturally considered some jobs as men's jobs and some as women's jobs. When this article said that all of the members of the class responded that "boss" corresponds with "he" it made me think. I think that if we start using more gender neutral terms for certain jobs and positions, we will start seeing men and women as more equal, even if we say we already do.
Women in our society are supposedly equal. But then why do we still associate some jobs with certain genders? If they're equal they should be the same. That is what I got out of this article. If we were more gender neutral with our language, then women and men would be more equal in our society. I thought this article was very well written and that it got its point across very well.
For some reason I can't link to it so I found the article "Doctors, Nurses, and One Terrific Professor" on the website fbomb.
I agree with you completely. I think that a ton of people do associate certain terms with gender. I know, sadly, that for myself when i think of the generic boss i picture a man in a suit with coffee and glasses. Maybe that's just me, but i have a feeling I'm not the only one. I think that making these terms non-gender specific will definiely help equal things out.
Posted by: Maryann Wadde | 04/03/2012 at 03:51 PM