Idea of Gender Roles

Throughout history, men and women have not been put on a scale where they are seen eye to eye. Men have always been above women and have kept women beneath men. Women are rarely seen as a sign of power who have a strong influence on other women. Especially in the workplace, men and women are not placed on an equal level. For example, men are thought of as a higher authority compared to women, which concludes that men should make more than women. Through the media involving men and women, men are always taller than the women and do not pay attention to the women in order to show that they have the higher authority. In Cynthia J. Crawford's, Gendered Projects of Solidarity: Workplace Organizing among Immigrant Women and Men, "Workers' forms of resistance also shaped work organization" (Crawford). At the time Crawford mentioned this, she was saying how a union was formed to go against the gender inequality and results showed where supervisors were open to mixing up gender labor.