Bias In A Short Story
As a terminology, “Bias” is basically used as a word of judgment toward objects and people. In these short stories bias is served towards race, gender, and age; showing that discrimination towards the littlest things can change the perspective in someone’s eye.
In the short story, ‘’Birthday party” racial bias is being told to us. The children’s Aunt May is in town for the summer and she went outside overheard the colored kid say “hey sis” towards Josephine but her aunt did not know that she and he have been playing their whole life. So as her aunt listened and heard she made the house maid tell him that he has to call her ‘miss’ not sis. “But on my seventh birthday, my mother and grandmother and aunts all said I had to have my birthday in the front yard and have just white children. No black children could come to the party. Well, I got very angry about that. (Durr, 1)” Josephine has had the same birthday party in the backyard with black and white people and she was really upset that this year she couldn’t do that because of her family. But as her family agreed to have the black people after she convinced them they said only white children in the front yard and the black children in the back. Showing their discrimination towards the black people. …show more content…
In the article “Gender gap” sex bias is being shown. When women work as hard as men. Though men get paid more than the women which are shown to be gender discrimination. ”Despite progress made, with a quarter of a billion women entering the global workforce since 2006, the gender gap in the four areas studied has improved only 4 percent during the last 10 years, according to the report. With regard to the global gender pay gap specifically, at the rate societies are progressing in the 145 countries surveyed it will take until 2133 for the world to close the gap between men and women working similar jobs, the organization reports.” (Gender gap,
In the short story, ‘’Birthday party” racial bias is being told to us. The children’s Aunt May is in town for the summer and she went outside overheard the colored kid say “hey sis” towards Josephine but her aunt did not know that she and he have been playing their whole life. So as her aunt listened and heard she made the house maid tell him that he has to call her ‘miss’ not sis. “But on my seventh birthday, my mother and grandmother and aunts all said I had to have my birthday in the front yard and have just white children. No black children could come to the party. Well, I got very angry about that. (Durr, 1)” Josephine has had the same birthday party in the backyard with black and white people and she was really upset that this year she couldn’t do that because of her family. But as her family agreed to have the black people after she convinced them they said only white children in the front yard and the black children in the back. Showing their discrimination towards the black people. …show more content…
In the article “Gender gap” sex bias is being shown. When women work as hard as men. Though men get paid more than the women which are shown to be gender discrimination. ”Despite progress made, with a quarter of a billion women entering the global workforce since 2006, the gender gap in the four areas studied has improved only 4 percent during the last 10 years, according to the report. With regard to the global gender pay gap specifically, at the rate societies are progressing in the 145 countries surveyed it will take until 2133 for the world to close the gap between men and women working similar jobs, the organization reports.” (Gender gap,