Power Relations Is Still Relevant Today
Power Relations
Power is the ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people. In our world today power within the relations is unevenly distributed. Power relationships exists around us and these relationships vary from relationship to relationship and from person to person.
Class, social status and wealth play a big role in power relationships. A class system can be defined as “a system for producing social wealth in which productive resources and the results of production are unevenly divided across different groups”. The working class is ‘exploited’ by the upper class and the money is transferred from the “producers” to the owners. This is known as unequal power relations and this is a relationship in which some have power to control others’ actions and in such power is not evenly distributed evenly among all involved. Class and power interwine in terms of power relations. …show more content…
Patriarchy still exists today.
There is still an uneven distribution of power between men and women today. The male gender is still deemed to be the most dominant sex as society has set roles, behaviours and attitudes that society determines as befitting for both men and women which can also be reason, outcome and change of power relations. The cultural aspect where society has set roles, behaviours and attitudes for men and women still exists today. Women are still expected to stay home, cook, look after the kids and do all the house chores, which is not entirely the women’s job. This in fact shows that women are in fact more stronger and capable of being flexible in different situations, where as men wouldn’t be able to do the same. This instead potrays men to be the ‘weaker sex’ as it takes a strong, driven women to take care of her of family and still be able to do everything else that is expected of
her.
Women all over the world are manipulated and brainwashed into thinking that, that is what they are obligated to do, which is to stay home, cook, do all the house chores etc. Woman all over the world are undermined and made to seem like weaker sex when it is due to society that woman have not been noticed and have been appreciated enough for their hard work and dedication.
Research shows that ‘woman make 78 cents to every mans dollar’. For example a man and woman of the same age, and working the same job, why should the man get a higher wage? It is also due to the gender stereotypes that make society’s approach to women very negative, it is because of terms like “you run like a girl” that affect our approach to woman. It is not only society that has created this separation between genders, men and woman all contribute to the division of genders. If women are able to stand up for themselves in a male dominated industry, then “the ropes of gender stereotype” automatically/slowly cut off.
Women are slowly beginning to see their purposes in the world. Women empowerment is also a contribution to why women are not going to stay silent any longer. Yes, women empowerment does motivate women, but women empowerment doesn’t necessarily give women the opportunity to show the world what they can do for the world.
“Raise girls and boys equally” is what we’re hopefully heading for in the future. Contributing to an equal balance of power between men and women.
Power is the ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people. In our world today power within the relations is unevenly distributed. Power relationships exists around us and these relationships vary from relationship to relationship and from person to person.
Class, social status and wealth play a big role in power relationships. A class system can be defined as “a system for producing social wealth in which productive resources and the results of production are unevenly divided across different groups”. The working class is ‘exploited’ by the upper class and the money is transferred from the “producers” to the owners. This is known as unequal power relations and this is a relationship in which some have power to control others’ actions and in such power is not evenly distributed evenly among all involved. Class and power interwine in terms of power relations. …show more content…
Patriarchy still exists today.
There is still an uneven distribution of power between men and women today. The male gender is still deemed to be the most dominant sex as society has set roles, behaviours and attitudes that society determines as befitting for both men and women which can also be reason, outcome and change of power relations. The cultural aspect where society has set roles, behaviours and attitudes for men and women still exists today. Women are still expected to stay home, cook, look after the kids and do all the house chores, which is not entirely the women’s job. This in fact shows that women are in fact more stronger and capable of being flexible in different situations, where as men wouldn’t be able to do the same. This instead potrays men to be the ‘weaker sex’ as it takes a strong, driven women to take care of her of family and still be able to do everything else that is expected of
her.
Women all over the world are manipulated and brainwashed into thinking that, that is what they are obligated to do, which is to stay home, cook, do all the house chores etc. Woman all over the world are undermined and made to seem like weaker sex when it is due to society that woman have not been noticed and have been appreciated enough for their hard work and dedication.
Research shows that ‘woman make 78 cents to every mans dollar’. For example a man and woman of the same age, and working the same job, why should the man get a higher wage? It is also due to the gender stereotypes that make society’s approach to women very negative, it is because of terms like “you run like a girl” that affect our approach to woman. It is not only society that has created this separation between genders, men and woman all contribute to the division of genders. If women are able to stand up for themselves in a male dominated industry, then “the ropes of gender stereotype” automatically/slowly cut off.
Women are slowly beginning to see their purposes in the world. Women empowerment is also a contribution to why women are not going to stay silent any longer. Yes, women empowerment does motivate women, but women empowerment doesn’t necessarily give women the opportunity to show the world what they can do for the world.
“Raise girls and boys equally” is what we’re hopefully heading for in the future. Contributing to an equal balance of power between men and women.