Blog #4

I think that the media plays a huge role in the way people are viewed as professionals. The media portrays women as being caretakers of children and their households. Women have a harder time gaining respect in the workplace and are often seen as less important as men in the workforce.

In almost every commercial for household cleaning products, there is woman featured as a mother, doing her motherly duty: cleaning. These portrayals of women have been set and people view them as being a mother who should be staying home to tend to the house. Even when women are in the workplace, they are considered the "supporting" income, rather than the breadwinner.

It seems to be that men are seen as the breadwinners in the workplace, assuming that they are all fathers that have to support an entire household. Women on the other hand are seen as the keepers of the house, or possibly secondary income earners. With this point of view in mind, it would seem that men would be favored for jobs, promotions, etct. merely based on their gender. It seems like women have an unfair advantage. Women have to prove that they deserve promotions and jobs, fighting against the "breadwinners."