Semester Project

Perceived gender differences between men and women have been on going debate for years. In a study in the United Kingdom wrote, " Many men and women find having a formal or informal mentor an important helping factor with their career progression. However, it appears that there are some differences in the way men and women describe what they found most valuable about the mentoring relationship. Women tended to concentrate on the ways in which their mentors had helped them build their internal confidence and help them to do thing for themselves. While men's answers were more instrumental and they offered specific examples where mentors had helped them, for example to write a book, get onto editorial board or apply for a research grant" (Oxford). It was interesting to see that men and women were able to work together but it was not always like that. In this class this semester I learned that females were greater artists than I already knew, because we weren't really introduced to many. In reference, Chadwick states that “our language and expectations about art have tended to rank that produced by women as below that produced by men in “quality”, resulting in lesser monetary value. This has profoundly influenced our knowledge and understanding of the contributions made by women to painting and sculpture” (Chadwick). The male gaze is the metaphorical tunnel through which women are viewed and portrayed in. It can also be described as the lens through which our culture asserts control and dominance over women. Women are relegated to being that of objects and are stripped of agency; male gaze has created a culture that is responsible for the social death of women.


Link:
http://pub.lucidpress.com/727486ca-8528-48dd-af87-365a64c896ba/