In the military women experience gender harassment from their male counterparts. This could be based on men who prefer traditional roles or hate the invasion of women in non-traditional roles. Male soldiers would protect female superiors but doing a “half-ass” job. The men will act like they don’t know how to fully do the task or act like the instructions were not clear enough. What’s worse is how the superiors of the female superiors will critique every single thing they do. Those superiors critique the female superior’s work done to the very last detail to protest women in the military. Women also face things like rumors/gossip and invasion of personal of their personal life.for example, a women in a decently high ranking position will have rumors of “them sleeping around to get that position”. There also seems to be trend of men complaining about the unfair treatment against men. The men go on to say how women have less strict standards, and can get away with doing less work or less physically demanding work. For example, men were saying how their female counterparts would use their womanly problems to get out of work. Some even said how women had less demanding standards to get into certain specialties. I don’t know if the statements made by those men are true, but I can see where inequality takes place. For me, I had to register to be drafted when I turned 18. In the U.S, only men have to sign up for the draft when they turn 18. If a man does not sign up in a timely fashion they risk getting fined and/or jail time. Women on the other hand, have a choice to sign up or not. I just feel like there is some inequality with the drafting requirement in the U.S.
4/24/2019
Sociology Blog 