Gender Roles In The Odyssey

Long ago, and even till today women are systematically discriminated against, we are considered “half citizen” they were seen as subservient and placed in inferior positions. Gender roles are determined by culture, social norms, ideologies, fairy tale and the Bible, etc. From the beginning of our life, since birth the gender separates the path which we youngling will take. Boys are mentally segregated from females by their parents telling them they have to be strong, not show emotions, and to suck it up when life turns for the worse, they get toys such as trucks, action figures, things that cool and dangerous portray and prepare. Girls on the other hand are treated sweetly and gently, because they are considered fragile. Not to say male aren’t
They were hang, because they were sleeping with the suitor, left for a slower painful death. While the suitor who messed with the house and Penelope for over a decade were killed at a faster pace. Were they spare the long lasting pain because they were male? And do the maid really have a choice of not sleeping with the men’s? They are just female domestic servant, a lower statue than a house wife. Knowing this, they really can’t say no in my opinion. They just have to agree to a more “superior being” that are the males. Telemachus said he wouldn’t let the women die a clean death, for they were disrespectful to him and his mother, and used to sleep with the suitors. They were treated like half
Be it lower pay compare to a men, in 2012, female full-time workers made 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, a 23 percent gap. Women’s are considered girls who are just earning some pin money, instead of as real workers who have real jobs, as men are treated. There are lesser women in the government, because of the stereotypes. If a woman is outspoken, she get called bossy or over bearing but on the other hand if a man is outspoken he’s just doing his job. Taking care of the home and kids are woman’s job. All these stereotyping has made women see each other as competitors. When the best thing to do is to support and empower so that they can build reinforcing for their worth fight to become first class citizens. We need to work together to break the supposedly gender norm role that women have to be a certain way. Masculinity doesn’t necessary have to be associated with dominance, strength or aggression, neither does feminine role be associated with passivity or