Blog 2

In the readings and videos there were many issues of justice that sparked my interest. I do agree that segregation do in fact exist still today. Most work forces that include jobs such as hard labor consist of mostly men. For instance, warehouse, truck driving, or construction positions contains mostly men. There is also majority of men that have manager or top positions for an example at my friend place of employment there are four assistant vice president positions in which all four positions are held by men. There are also two vice president positions in which both of those positions are held by men. That raises an issue with justice because it is, to me, segregating against women.

How I would define sex segregation, is the separation between men and women. In society, today, men and women are segregated as far as for stereotypes, media, employment, etc... At Arizona State University, I would say that there is segregation between male and female. For instance, while looking back at my class schedule since my freshman year in Fall 2006 through Fall 2009, I had 22 female professors and only 9 male professors. This example shows that there is segregation between the two because there is a high number in female professors rather than male. In the "patriarchy" video the author displayed many different points of segregation especially within our government. In the U.S. Congress there are only 70 women working out of 435. As for the Senate there are 16 women working out of 100. This alone displays segregation exist in this country. Socialization is related to patriarchy because a patriarchy is based off of a social organization. In a social organization men and women basically follow norms or social behaviors that fit there social position in society.

In the job market men still make more money than what women do. In the radio report it is stated that " women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes." Therefore, although the recession has hit and a lot of men are loosing there positions, women are still not making more than men. Moreover, because of the loss in jobs which included a majority of men, sex segregation and the wage gap still exists because "medical care, pensions, and paid vacations," still remains in men positions also the wage earnings are still higher in men positions.