GENDER, RACE, & AGE

Gender, Race, & Age

Abstract

There are three main factors that have a huge impact on my life: age, gender, and race/ethnicity. These factors have affected everyone in some way within their lifetime. A long time ago black women were used for house work, black men were used for manual labor, white women were kind of just there to please there men, and white men has all of the power. In someway these factors still affect us in today's society. I am going to break it down for you and tell you how my age, gender, and race/ethnicity have affect life.

Gender, Race, & Age

Race and class are increasingly important in the world today; yet, few sources focus on the similarities of these issues at a regional or global level. Ideologies of race were used to justify colonialism, conquest and annihilation of non-European peoples, slavery, indentured labor, fascism and Nazism. Yet, a common impression among men and women of color is that race and class issues are unique to their own particular community. Still, it is only through awareness of how these issues affect different communities that a common bond and understanding can be developed across racial, ethnic, cultural and class barriers.

Both governments and media present the image of an integrated, egalitarian society, which in reality contradicts racial discrimination, and class oppression that is exercised against various minority groups. In each `integrated' and `equal' society, racial and ethnic discrimination is directly related to economic and class issues. Race, Class and Gender issues are commonly brought up. Throughout history many groups have been stigmatized not just for their race, but for their sex, and class as well. People of lower class incomes get slandered for where they live and for not having the economical means to purchase most common goods. Women have been considered the weaker sex for centuries, and currently, some of the old fashioned and ignorant theories on women being subordinate to men prevail. Before America even had a history it was busy creating a lower ethnic class for it to look down on. To work the fields and other low wage high risk jobs. To be there when a scapegoat was needed but to be as separate as could be maintained at all times. Whether you're at work and can't get a promotion because of your gender, excluded from a place because of your class or hated because of your race. No matter what you will be faced with one if these topics in your life time.

Race, gender and class shape the experience of all people. This fact has been widely documented in research and, to some extent, is commonly understood. “There are many parallels that can be drawn between the pursuit of feminist economics and the application of gender mainstreaming. At a basic level, both seek to make gender visible. Gender mainstreaming at a minimum requires visibility of the gender impact of policy through the conducting of a gender audit” (Genevieve, ...