In our society, men lead politics. In the documentary Miss Representation, this issue is discussed
in relation to men being superior to women.
Women are looked at as incapable of holding a higher office position, especially
in politics. Why are there more men in politics than women? Is there a sense of
power, or leadership, that men feel women don’t possess? Are women looked at as having too many
feminine qualities to lead a country? Will there ever be a women president of
the United States? So many questions can be derived from this issue but the
hardest one to answer is why can’t women be leaders?
According to the WCF Foundation, this is the first time
since 1987 that the United States hasn’t made growth in the number of women in
congress. In Miss Representation, the
quote “You can’t be what you can’t see” is a possible reason for why our number
of women in politics hasn’t increased.
Young girls don’t have many powerful women to look up to. Positive role
models are important in the development of girls’ self-confidence. Perhaps our
society feels that men are the only ones capable of running a society. This ideology
then sinks into women’s brains and they start to feel that they truly are less
than men.
The women that are in politics are constantly being criticized
for various things: their appearance,
family life, and education. In Miss Representation, they stated that there
are more women in politics in countries like Afghanistan than there are in the United
States. Is this because women here are so criticitzed for their looks? Apart from politics, some woman new anchers wear low-cut shirts and a lot of make-up because they are expected to look a certain way. Why don't men have these expectations?
ESPN recently came out with a dress-code for women covering MLB games. This was done to make reporting more "gender-neutral". These rules prevent the stereotypical image of female news casters. In politics, there isn't a dress-code but women are still critizied even if they are dressed appropriately.
If women can't be taken seriously because of their looks then how will they gain respect? It seems that no matter how smart a woman is she is still a woman, not a man. Hopefully, this unfemanist view will fade away with time. Its important to have women in leadership because they bring another view point to topics. With the state of our country today, we need all the women in politics we can get. (419)
ESPN recently came out with a dress-code for women covering MLB games. This was done to make reporting more "gender-neutral". These rules prevent the stereotypical image of female news casters. In politics, there isn't a dress-code but women are still critizied even if they are dressed appropriately.
If women can't be taken seriously because of their looks then how will they gain respect? It seems that no matter how smart a woman is she is still a woman, not a man. Hopefully, this unfemanist view will fade away with time. Its important to have women in leadership because they bring another view point to topics. With the state of our country today, we need all the women in politics we can get. (419)
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