Feminist Praxis

“…an event or phenomenon that raises awareness and/or creates change on issues of patriarchy, gender systems, the intersectionality of identities and oppressions, and/or the overall structural inequalities experienced by women” (157).

On a daily basis, we see that men are more privileged than women. We also see that intersectionality comes into play. The social construction of gender too is also occurring on an everyday basis. At my workplace which is a nursing home, the CEO is a man. We talked about how most CEOs are men in class. Most of the people working CNA, dietary, receptionist, and etc. are women. This is a part of women’s’ identity where they are seen as caring. Even for women, some are more privileged than others. Those who have a higher education than a high school degree will most likely get the higher paying jobs. It is understandable since they probably have gone to school for it. These types of jobs are more women dominated. There are some men who are CNAs, med techs, etc. but men are usually working the janitorial or environmental jobs. Throughout my education career, most janitors have been men and there has only been one time where there was a woman working janitorial. At home when doing chores, the boys gets very little to none which most of the time is taking out the trash whereas the girls will do most of them. My baby brother likes to play with makeup and nail polish and my parents disapprove of this, they worry that it would affect his sexual identity. I disagree with them so I do let him play with makeup/nail polish to an extent since it can get quite messy. I find that the older generations are opposed of things such as this when it comes to boys. For the social construction of gender chapter, people were okay with the fact that girls can be tomboys. On social media, we see “everyday activism” which is acts that occur daily that “may reject or challenge oppressive practices” (157). There are people who bash on other girls and those who supports girls. Celebrities are also using their voices to garner awareness on certain things or voicing their opinions.