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Sexism in education and amongst teachers (view source)
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= So what is harmful about sexism? =
= So what is harmful about sexism? =
Ascribing certain characteristics and traits to women makes it easier for us to push women and girls into certain roles - such as the ‘gentle/sweet/great wife’ who provides free/unpaid labor for her husband and family. For instance in many if not most households, including of teachers in the group, we will see the woman work in the kitchen to produce food while the man is watching TV or reading a newspaper in the hall. This is actually an exploitative relationship (see the brilliant movie - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QlOqqZAN5Y The Great Indian Kitchen]).
Ascribing certain characteristics and traits to women makes it easier for us to push women and girls into certain roles - such as the ‘gentle/sweet/great wife’ who provides free/unpaid labor for her husband and family. For instance in many if not most households, including of teachers in the group, we will see the woman work in the kitchen to produce food while the man is watching TV or reading a newspaper in the hall. This is actually an exploitative relationship (see the brilliant movie - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QlOqqZAN5Y The Great Indian Kitchen]).
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In more civilized societies, men and women will both work together in the kitchen and will relax watching TV together. Creating the stereotypes of women, makes it easier to push women into continuous, often dreary, unpaid (or low paid) labor. And men into roles with more power. Unpaid cooking daily is by the wife at home. Highly paid cooking jobs of Chefs in hotels go largely to men. Women are persuaded to do double duty – work in the office/school and do most of the household work. India is particularly bad.
In more civilized societies, men and women will both work together in the kitchen and will relax watching TV together. Creating the stereotypes of women, makes it easier to push women into continuous, often dreary, unpaid (or low paid) labor. And men into roles with more power. Unpaid cooking daily is by the wife at home. Highly paid cooking jobs of Chefs in hotels go largely to men. Women are persuaded to do double duty – work in the office/school and do most of the household work. India is particularly bad.
