UNIT C - Blog 13

Media has portrayed the image that women are housewives and if they're not doing that then they should be in a job that requires them to cook and clean. In alot of sitcoms such as Everybody Loves Raymond, the wives are stay at home moms and have to juggle cleaning, cooking and taking care of the children while the men are out being the breadwinners for the household. Women seem to be looked at as delicate flowers that shouldn't be out doing hard labor when women are in fact capable of working any job they want even if it's a male dominated environment. I honestly don't think that I have seen any images of prison guards or correctional officers that have shown women in those positions. One of my friends is a correctional office and she's a female and my cousin is a female officer but other than knowing these two woman in policing jobs I don't really see any ads portraying women in these types of careers. On TV shows and movies I see men playing detective and police officer roles and if I see a woman on these shows she's usually at a desk working instead of out patrolling like the rest of the male officers. I think this puts out an image that women shouldn't be in this type of atmosphere because it's male dominated, or maybe that women aren't good enough to hold these types of jobs and i think this is demeaning towards women. In the media I don't ever see a woman in a job that requires them to be a leader, they always seem to be a follower. The media makes it seem like women aren't able to handle jobs of authority because of the stress and danger which isn't true at all. Women are hardly seen as detectives or chief of police and it's very rare to see them in a field such as the FBI, CIA or SWAT and it might be because these fields are more specialized and require advanced levels of training and the media doesn't want to show the world that women are capable of doing a "mans job". It seems as if the media doesn't want to portray women as adventurous, brave or take charge kind of ladies because this will show that women can do anything a man can do and if men see this they will feel less of a man or maybe weaker. With all this media attention focused on men as the hardcore go getter's, women might be a little timid to apply for jobs such as policing because they may feel like they aren't qualified since the media only show men partaking in these types of fields.