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.