I have not started my naturalistic observation or my experiment yet but I have started my case study. For the case study, I am going to tell the story of Malala Yousufzai, the 14- year old Pakistani girl nearly killed by the Taliban. Malala was shot in the head on the school bus just because she was supporting education for girls. It is terrible how girls and women there are treated so different from the men and that all that young girls there want is to be able to go to school and they are told they cant or they will get killed? Its disgusting and a terrible thing that is going on there so I think it has a huge impact on sexism around the world and how women are treated. I am going to do the naturalistic observation and the experiment on the same days and going to do it on Saturday, December 1st, Wednesday, December 5th, and I am going to try to go on one other day. I am choosing a Saturday and a Wednesday to go to Victoria's Secret, Home Depot, Coach, and a car dealership because I want to see the difference of the responses I get on a busy day of the week and a not so busy day. I am going to personally go in these stores and see the responses I get for how long it takes for employees to come up to me and I am also going to observe other people, men and women, and see the responses I see from that. 

I am going to include a case study, naturalistic observation, and an experiment in my sexism project. I am going to target sales people in various industries such as car dealerships and retail stores such as Victoria's secret, coach, and home depot. I am going to time how long it will take a sales person to come up to me in these various stores and I am also going to observe others and see how long it takes and determine where the sexism exists. Throughout the next few weeks, I am going to go to these various stores with my iPhone to time the responses from the sales people and a notebook to record the data. I also plan to conduct my experiments and observations during both busy and quiet hours to see if there is going to be a difference. 

For my project, I would like to combine the two methods of a survey and a case study in my presentation. I want to make a survey with about twenty questions on regards to peoples opinions on sexism in the workplace and society. Out of the survey, I hope to do an analysis and conclude if there is any difference between peoples opinions based on their age, marital status, and occupation. For the case study, I am deciding between an example of sexism against a student in Pakistan or sexism in the workplace with my mother where she was replaced by a man and didn't receive equal pay. I would like to do a case study to provide a clear example of sexism today and the impact it has on people and society.  

I looked through many pictures on sexism and a majority of them were from the 1950's. The 1950's was a time when sexism was not only tolerated, but it was highly encouraged and expected in a society. Many extremely offensive sexist ads, such as the one posted below were published and seen all throughout America during the 1950's. The ad below depicts a woman being so emotional to her husband on the verge of tears in fear of doing something her husband could be annoyed by. This picture is saying that women are incapable of doing anything successful without breaking down into tears of sobbing when confronted by a man. During this time, it was believed that women were completely useless if they could not make their husband happy.

These types of ads were seen as humorous but also very true during these days so it makes me thankful in a way to see that we don't see these types of ads being published anymore. This image shows how far our world has come and how different the world was during the 1950's. Can you even imagine living in a world where seeing these images would be normal and encouraged? Now if we saw these type of things in our generation we would be extremely offended and we would certainly not allow for this to happen.

London 2012: The Women's Olympics

As I have been posting many articles on all of the sexism that we need to fix around the world, I decided to post an article about a positive way that we have overcome sexism. I came across an article about the London 2012 Women's Olympics where it was a very important and significant time for many women as it was the first time in Olympic games history when all countries participating have had women athletes on their team. Two women from Saudi Arabia walked proudly and modestly dressed and veiled into London's Olympic stadium at the games fabulous opening ceremony. These two women had come a long way in order to be walking into that stadium and it was a huge achievement because of the country they were coming from. Jacques Rogge, head of the International Olympics Committee, had said within his speech at the opening ceremony that this was "a major boost for gender equality".

I believe that we often forget about the sexism that goes on in the other countries around the world so I was very eager to post this article. This was an extremely important day for these two women from Saudi Arabia because they were representing a country where there is so much sexism going on. Saudi Arabia is a country where we would perfectly see sexism in the household. In Saudi Arabia, a women's place is suppose to be in the kitchen taking care of the husband and family. Only 5% of the women there make up the workforce and there is a law that permits them from driving. After hearing about the sexism in Saudi Arabia, it truly does amaze me that these two women were representing their country into the Olympics.

Sexism in the workplace 

One example of sexism in the workplace comes from a personal experience from my mom when we first moved here in 2002 from England. My mom transferred to the United States and switched jobs with a man here. The job was vice- president of Information Technology. My mom did exactly the same job with the same responsibilities as the man she swapped roles with but was paid less money than he was for the same job. Another example of sexism in society of when we first moved here, and even now, is the question we often get asked is did you move here for your Dad's job? People made the assumption that it was my dads job and career that we moved for as society often assumes that the man takes the more important role in his position in the workplace. 

The fact that my mom was paid less money for doing the same job with the same effort and number of hours is wrong both morally and illegally. Although women are protected under the Sex Discrimination and Equal pay Act, women often don't speak up as my mom didn't in fear of retaliation and losing their jobs. People in society instinctively assume that the man must have the more important job and career, so even though it is wrong for them to assume I don't know how much you can really blame society for it as they often are not trying to be sexist or discriminate but its the just the way they think. 

Augusta  National- No longer for boys only

This video came from the news which announced on August 20th, 2012 that Augusta National, an exclusive golf club has now finally, after ten years, admitted two female members into the group. Augusta National has always been a golf club with wealthy males in it and has never allowed women members. This video announces the joy that many women had on this day because of the admission of the female members. The video shows the interview of Martha Burk, an early critic of Augusta National's "males only" policy. Martha Burk started the protest against this ten years ago encouraging others to join in order to change the corporate word. Even though the allowing of women into Augusta National was a main goal for Burk, it is only one of many. For the past ten years she and other women have thrown many law suits onto other corporate companies in order to stop this discrimination towards hard working women.

When I first saw the starting preview to this video online I really didn't think I would have much interest because I don't have much of an interest in golf, but after the first minute of this video I was amazed as to what this one woman Martha Burk has started and how equality between women and men is still progressing. I honestly had no idea there was so much inequality and unfairness towards women still going on in both the corporate world and the sports world. My favorite part of this video was how Martha Burk was addressing the fact that this whole thing isn't just about golf and that women can now be admitted into Augusta National but that this is another huge step for all working women across the country within the corporate world.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/08/20/nr-brooke-burk.cnn

I had two instant reactions when I first saw this picture, shocking but yet also incredible. The shocking part may seem obvious to most people, which is the fact that a picture like this was once seen as the way of life and the way women were viewed. On one side, I see this picture as absolutely ridiculous because of how it is portraying a woman being surprised and questioning that she can open what seems to be a ketchup bottle. On the other side, I find it incredible and amazing looking at this picture and seeing how far women have come along in the world. It gives me hope that even though we still have things we need to improve with sexism between men and women throughout the world, we have obviously came along way from the way it use to be. 

Sexism at Wimbledon

Despite the progress of equality between men and women in recent years, Men have always earned more money playing professional tennis at Wimbledon than women. The men and women do the same amount of training and play the same amount of matches during the tournament. Regardless of the equal opportunities and equal pay acts in the United Kingdom, Wimbledon did not offer equal prize money until 2007. After many years of the women fighting for this equal right, not many others were supporting them. Still in 2012, the men disagree with the women tennis players getting equal pay. A french man, named Gilles Simon made some offensive comments towards the women players saying that the men deserve to be paid more because "their game is more entertaining and far more interesting". 

I completely disagree with the men's attitudes and comments toward the women. This is an example of sexism as the men do not want the women to get equal pay for the same job. It is unfair to the women by making comments as if the women players have it easier when both sexes are working and training just as hard. Not only is Gilles Simon and the other men wrong for their comments but Wimbledon is also to blame as they waited so long to finally give equal pay. Despite the equality and equal pay, the cost of a ticket for a men's tennis match is more expensive then a ticket for a women's match. By this, the men give reason as to why they should get paid more when in reality more people watch the women's matches than men's matches. 

Sexism at Wimbledon

Sexism is the discrimination, different behavior and attitudes based upon a persons sex. Sexism has been around for hundreds of years and despite the progress that has been made in many countries, it is still commonplace in society today. I chose this topic because it is something I am interested in and a good topic to research and see what good changes have been made but also to see the areas and attitudes that still need to be improved. Within this topic, I am going to research countries where sexism and discrimination are low in society versus countries where discrimination and sexism is high and compare the differences between these societies.