Modern Sexism Women Work Outside The Home. Sexism Hurts Men Too. At the same time public acceptance of wage-earning jobs for young unmarried women was growing.
No longer being limited to work as mill girls or domestics these women began to perform clerical work in offices and retail work in shops and department stores. Bikini clad women being used to sell everything. They may be the staff member everyone looks to when the topic of a company holiday party comes up or the retirement gift for an outgoing coworker.
It became acceptable for working girls to live away from their families.
Sexism is the assumed inferiority of women as a groupIts an attitude that has stuck around and evolved throughout history due to many sociological reasons. The commodification of the female body leads to every other item on this list. You can be a teacher but not the president of the Unites States. Even though the general attitude is not one that is demeaning and it may even come from a place of care it is undermining the fact that women should be treated equally.