Blog 49

The position of women in society has been increasing greatly since the early 20th century, and now it seems both sexes have equal opportunities and rights. In recent times, only a few stereotypes from the old days such as “women work in office” “women are worse drivers” ,“only women wear earrings” have survived. These cultural and social stereotypes are either almost completely removed from our society or still on processing. For example, it is pretty common that men wear earrings. Women work in the field, too.
However, there are still many subtle stereotypes lying beneath our society’s surface such that most people don’t even recognize them, and here are some examples;
Women are more emotional / Women are shop-a-holics / Men rarely make decisions based on feeling / Men work on one thing at a time, etc.
I don’t think there is very many things we can do for children to fix these subtle stereotypes. These examples are more than just cultural and social stereotypes. These are more likely the characteristics of each sex than stereotypes. Many of them are psychological characteristics with biological reasons in hormone levels, like depression in women during menses.
Also, in Korea, most of the women are controlling their husbands today… I do not know how this kind of problem happened. As a male, I think sometimes the husbands look poor. I do not even want males to control females. I just want males to have their right^^ I hope there are no more scary(?) wife in the families in Korea.