Are Women Still Second-class Citizens???????

Question

What has been your experience with regard to discrimination? Have things really improved?

Within my own world, the world of cinema, things haven`t really changed. Women are still invisible in the main. And with the internationalisation of cinema, the film world has become increasingly sexist.

Old moguls don`t even SEE the women writers they`ve overlooked and passed over for years and years. All they see, to keep their jobs and/or self-image, are the young bucks coming along.

Look at any rundown of current films and/or films in production. How many women writers? How many women directors?

It gets worse. How many films and/or submissions made by women have been ripped off without demur/without conscience?

I am still smarting over the expropriation of my own Alfred Hitchcock scenario and haven`t really recovered from the women in film debacle of thirty years past.

So what`s going on?????????????

Can we learn from the Saudis? Are we worse????

Answer 1

unfortunately for us women some men do class us as second class citizens. it all goes back to the times when we lived in caves, the men went to catch prey whilst we stayed in the cave looking after the little ones. for generations women have been told to stay home and look after children, cook,clean, etc,,, and fortunately now women are coming out of their shells and started to do what they want to do and not what they are told....we are classed like that because men have always earned the money or brought home the bacon as they say, not because we cant but because we arent allowed to succeed because men think that our place is the kitchen.......
all men in general depend on women where would they be without us women...

Answer 2

Inequalities exist for both sexes here in the US.

But if you were to travel outside to a lot of third world countries, women are still second-class citizens. Check out www.vday.org. When you realize the statistics and inequality that many women around the world are still facing under the name of religion and sexism, your problems are menial. Everyone wants to look inside their own box, but no one wants to see the big picture. Women's lib has come a long way here in the US and most European countries, but there is a lot more work to be done in other countries. We have to start looking beyond our own noses.

Answer 3

They never have been but have always been treated so since the coming of the Romans and the Christians.

Until then women were treated the same as men (as witnessed by at least two tribal leaders - Boudicca and Cartimandua).

Answer 4

Hell no! There's men, then horses, then women. Any fool knows that.

Only joking of course. Yes women are still treated as second class citizens, society still structurally opposes true equality and its all wrong. I'm afraid its maintainance is all tied up in the capitalist system of production and the use of women as an ancilliary labour force. Come the glorious day sisters, come the glorious day.

Answer 5

In the UK by and large women have equality, there is still some work to do. Its just men and women now encounter inequality in different ways. Woem still get a bit of a raw deal at work sometime. Men still find it harder to be properly involved in parenting.

Answer 6

Unfortunately still women are treated as second class citizens.They are also perceived as sex objects.What's disgusting is that our religions also give them lower status.Fortunately our constitution does give them equal rights.So we must not lose hope and fight for a world/age without any gender bias.

Answer 7

Everybody have their own norms, behavior, traditions and rules...and what happen to this world is, competition for the formulation of international customs and law...

Basically, people have no class....its people who made the idea of human classes...

But, as of now, descrimination is inevitable, ALL I CAN SAY IS, IT IS BETTER TO HAVE A PRINCESS OR QUEEN, RATHER THAN, THEY ARE EXISTING IN THIS WORLD...WOMEN MUST TREATED AS LIKE THAT....THEY ARE SPECIAL...

Answer 8

Some women ... SOME WOMEN ... in seventh heaven, who have a sixth sense, take the fifth, one fourth the time, in third world countries. Yet, they aren't second class citizens. That's a first!

Answer 9

This is a most regrettable (traumatic) and very unfortunate situation, prevailing in most parts of the world, despite so-called education and grooming!

Primeval-instinct "undercurrents," still run riot, in much of society.

Forebodes destruction...

No one, "Heeds the Call !"

Answer 10

Why do frustrated woman always think America is sexist? It's just like when minorities think America's racist just because they lost a job to a white guy or something similar. Don't blow your frustration out of proportion. Bad things happen to both genders.