Beauvoir Views On Women Oppression

2A(i)a. Oppression is when a more powerful group deprives other groups from goods and opportunities. DeBeauvoir believes oppression exists in society and it is visible when different groups have different amounts of power, these differences in power can be legal power or social power. She thinks that oppression is an injustice. Further, she thinks we should have rules to suppress or destroy it.
2A(i)b. DeBeauvoir defines women as others but says they are different from the others who are oppressed because of many reasons such as, they had no starting point in their oppression and there is not obvious economic gain for this oppression. The role of value judgments or stereotypes men have about women can affect their daily life and sustain oppression
Also, they internalized the oppression when they strive to become the eternal feminine. They internalize it because the value judgments become their identity and what is expected by them. They internalize it because they might just be told their whole life that they are expected to get married and have children. So this means that they might miss out on a job opportunity because it is a male dominated field, therefore something uncommon for a woman. For example, a woman might question herself in majoring in business because it is male dominated, it might get to difficult competing with all of them men in the field. They might be hesitant to apply in male dominated jobs especially if most employers have a value judgment that women just have children and a husband and they quit. If a woman internalized that she is expected to get married and have children, she might hesitate try to advance in her career. Her refraining from applying in a male dominated jobs means that she might not achieved the goals she once dreamed of. Also, if she is in a male dominated job she might not get promoted because the employer expects that she will have children and then
She might question herself if she can do both things, if she can advance in her job and if she can have a family at the same time. This can deprive her from the opportunity to make more money or to strive for managerial opportunity when they have a job because of the commitment and time required. In reality women do both and more, but if a woman internalizes this type of value judgment men have she can be more hesitant in striving for anything more than a