Friday, January 4, 2013

My case study is complete on Malala Yousufzai and her heroic yet tragic story of what has happened to her within the past couple weeks. I chose to share her story as my case study because I want others to realize how severe sexism against women is still in some places of the world. Although we have came along way with sexism and women's rights along the years, what has happened to the young 14 year old girl Malala is telling us that there is so much more that needs to be done in Pakistan and other parts of the world. Although this individual case study is very sad and does not have a solution yet, I hope that it teaches and encourages others to help to prevent this from happening to other young girls. The other part of my project is the naturalistic observation and experiment. So far, I have gone to Victoria's secret, Hyundai car dealership, and Home Depot and timed how long it took for an employee to come up to me, as well as watching to see how long it took to come up to other men and women. As expected, employees were more likely to come up to a man in the car dealership and in home depot over a woman. Out of doing this, I also discovered how ageism became part of my sexism project as I was treated differently in some of the stores than an adult women was. I believe this was because in the car dealership for example, the employees in there were more likely to go up to an adult woman over a teenager because they believe that the adult women may have the money to buy a car instead of a teenage girl.