JMStanton Society, Women, and Change
We are part of a patriarchal society that says men are better and more powerful than women. This is a structural problem with the way our society has been set up from the beginning. It is also an individual problem in the way the gender disparities affect women on a day to day basis that alters the way we feel about ourselves and interact with others. This falls under Karl Marx’s conflict theory of gender in relation to power. Inequality is the result of a social system that stacks the deck in favor of those with wealth and power. Those with the wealth and power typically are white men. Women have been sexualized, objectified, and dehumanized on a daily basis for centuries. Women are underrepresented across the board from tv and music to the government and boardrooms. In fact, over 30% of the films created in 2016 failed the Bechdel test where a film has “at least two or more women characters who have names and talk to one another about something...
