If you ask a man what job a woman would be good at, rarely would you get a response that highlights the fact that women can do any job

The true lack of empathy, and character shown by this man is not only an accurate representation of toxic masculinity in its own regard, but how men view women in the workforce.

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The effect of toxic masculinity on women has never occurred to me until I saw this ad campaign.

Toxic masculinity has not only crippled countless generations of men across the world,

When a son sees his father laugh at such atrocious acts, it the normalizes this behavior and instills the notion that touching women sexually without consent is harmless.

In more recent years the traditional ties to misogyny and female exploitation have been all but erased from modern television and film.

Actions such as these were common in entertainment for years because the sexualization of women was and still is a reliable way to draw in male viewers

disrespect

On this tv we see a snippet of a show where a man comes up behind a woman and squeezes her rear.

One of the most relevant clips we see in the commercial is a scene in which we see there are three young men sitting on a couch watching tv

How do you think they will respond to adversity and other mild conflicts?

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To combat this false image of manhood, Gillette has created a commercial that features men navigating various situations in life

Countless generations of men were subjected to viewing this in their adolescent years thus creating a stigma as to what a man should be, leading to them becoming the men they watched on tv

If characters touched a woman inappropriately there would be no negative repercussions to follow.

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The implantation of these images can be credited to the portrayal of men in early television and movies.

The false impression of manhood that has infected the minds of men hasn’t just been a recent action

The pure focus and glorification of these aspects create a false image of what manhood truly is.

Toxic masculinity can be defined as looking at manhood through a narrow looking glass

toxic masculinity

Stop that’s gay.

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This is a mere example of a disease that has plagued men since the beginning of time and has gained relevance in last decade.

Ironically, the actions that cause that response are never in fact gay and the person who does it isn’t in fact gay.

Those three words are often said by most men numerous times in their lives.

The way to fix the disadvantages that people face when the migrate to America is to institute policies to help immigrants overcome the barriers they face in terms of employment in America, which in turn will help to reduce their overall disadvantage in the country.

they believe that they will have access to better job prospects, housing, and a quality of life if they come here.

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In addition to this, mental health concerns are often taboo in other cultures making these resources difficult to access.

Access to health care is an issue due to low rates of insurance coverage, and high cost of quality health care 

Another issue that comes from immigrants only being able to earn low wages, is that they have trouble accessing state-provided services, and other services.

However, this often leads to a crowded home environment that does not allow for comfortable living, studying, or sleeping.

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Safe and affordable housing is often times expensive, meaning that immigrants who are in low paying jobs often cannot afford to live in these places 

immigrants on average only make 681 

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That is not the case however for many, in America in particular many skilled workers come here and are unable to speak the language, or their certifications are not understood, and therefore they are unable to find jobs in their profession

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they all have in common the idea that when they arrive they will have a better life

To escape conflict, poverty, persecution, to find better opportunities, and reunite families.

A potential solution to these struggles is to make migration policy more accessible so that families are able to migrate together and remain intact.

Because the future returns on a local education are so low, many youth decide to drop out of school and instead, begin earning an income.

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This study suggests that migrant workers and their spouses are more likely to engage in high-risk sexual behavior than non-migrant workers and their spouses (Sevoyan, Agadjanian).

The impact of remittances on education is especially significant for young girls in third world countries, who are disproportionately kept out of school compared to their male counterparts. Additionally, remittances can improve the general health of families by improving health care, sanitation, nutrition.

(DéMurger).

Despite the advantages of male-out migration, the process significantly disadvantages those left behind, who experience financial struggles, disrupted family lives, and increased burdens.

Male-out migration

In particular, male-out migration to the United States has been a prominent phenomenon over the past 20 years (McEvoy).

male-out migration

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After the ‘end’ of lynching, it began to be commonplace for police to use excessive force against blacks, and they continued to be brutalized and killed by whites in general.

This is the start of what throughout the years has become police brutality against blacks.

Following the end of slavery, lynching became a violence used against blacks because they were still seen as less and this was a way to keep whites in control.

Jordan Ross was a 15-year old freshman at Mesquite High School, in Balch Springs, Texas. He had two parents, lived in a nice suburb, was a straight A student, and an athlete. He was someone you would never expect to be shot by a police officer (Criss, 2017). On a Saturday night, the high school teen was at a house party with his friends when the police arrived, the party guests all left. Jordan, his two brothers, and two friends got into a car driven by the oldest brother, who was only 16. The car was driving away from the party when a police officer fired a shot from his rifle into the car, hitting Jordan Ross in the head and killing him. All of the teens were unarmed high school students without criminal records, attending a house party as teenagers across America do every weekend. It is clear that the level of police brutality against blacks is serious issue, when they decide a 15-year old is dangerous enough to be shot. This story can’t be excused as many are because the victim was violent, or had a criminal record, or had provoked the officer (Criss, 2017). Jordan was unarmed and innocent, and he was killed. This is just one story of hundreds in recent years of unarmed black teens and adults, men and women, being victims of police brutality. Particularly, the shooting by police of unarmed African Americans has put police brutality back into the spotlight through movements such as Black Lives Matter. However, this issue is far from recent, government enforced violence against blacks has a long history in America (Nodjimbadem, 2017), through lynching’s in the past, to these modern-day killings, this problem is far from new, and even farther from being solved

No longer should westerns outsource or abandon their conscious, but the blinders of meritocracy begin continentally and must change there before global injustice like the Rana Plaza disaster to cease.

Opportunity exists for this upward rise in the regulation of fair working conditions if Westerners look beyond their idea of pre-existing meritocracy.

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While the bottom 40% of Americans want to see the gap bridged between them and the 1%, those at the top have a lot of power and do not want to see their wealth cut by a tax plan. These wealthy households can afford to pay their taxes on the previous rate of 39.5%, but because of the power of the wealthy, the rich get a tax cut along with the people who are living paycheck to paycheck. “Wealth can be seen as a “resource” that is very useful in exercising power. That’s obvious when we think of donations to political parties, payments to lobbyists, and grants to experts who are employed to think up new policies beneficial to the wealthy” (Domhoff). Without the cooperation of the top 1% of earners, it will be hard to dig out of the hole that is income inequality. With no redistribution of the wealth in the 1%, the wealthy will continue to hold a disproportionately high percentage of the money in the US. Unless the supply-side economic model works wonders in the coming years, the US will have to try looking at other ways to spin the tax reform policies in order to close the very wide gap between the rich and the poor

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Without real, structural change in the form of some sort of redistribution, it is inconceivable that Black wealth will ever be on par with White wealth, or that inequality as a whole will ever narrow.

If the argument for the maintaining of this status quo is that credit is a driver of mobility

Inequality of Opportunity following Incarceration

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Thus, when people are born into financial instability, unemployment, and sometimes volatile family life, each of which is associated with poverty, young people are more prone to become involved in illegal activity.

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Change needs to be made to drastically decrease the numbers of people in this region suffering from chronic illness, poverty, lack of education, and lack of access to basic healthcare.

in Appalachia

This means that before the government or NGOs start programs and interventions in the area they need to measure how the people in this region view their health.

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This program works to create local prevention and control activities, educates community leaders on national diabetes prevention programs, and encourages collaborations between health centers in this region.

(years of potential life lost)

These people, because they do not have access to medical care, often do not have access to the necessary health education

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Appalachia has long been known as one of the most economically depressed areas in the US, and this is showing in gap of the health outcomes between this region and the rest of the country.

In America as a whole, socioeconomic status has a huge impact on your access to healthcare, as well as the quality of your healthcare.

This area is a prime example of the inequality in healthcare that we see around America between rural and urban areas. This inequality is caused by a number of factors such as income level, geographic isolation, and poor health educ

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Until the ways of talking about and embodying gender are changed from childhood onwards, women will continue to be hurt physically and emotionally and troubling male and female stereotypes will persist.

When considering the patriarchal culture of American society, it is almost impossible to imagine an environment in which sexual harassment would not occur.  This is not meant to minimize the “MeToo” movement in any way, or excuse sexual harassment, but instead to emphasize the extent to which gender inequality is not simply an issue that starts and ends in the workplace

The gendered dynamics in leadership positions are often cited in #MeToo accounts. 

It is naive to think that the attitudes of male superiority affixed in college simply disappear once these men and women enter the adult workforce

Besides the well-known gender stereotypes of girls “as being kind, gentle, passive, sensitive, and well-behaved relative to boys,”[3] young girls also undergo sexualization pressure.[4]  S

Gender inequality is characterized by a cycle, in which the manifestations of gender inequality perpetuate it.

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No longer should westerns outsource or abandonment their conscious, but the blinders of meritocracy begin continentally and must change their before we can affect global injustice.

Then, Individuals like Priety, who rather than being trapped in the cycle of poverty due to unfair wages, could grow the economy by starting her dream of owning a tailoring business to slowly build it up the individual’s agency in their own economy until their opportunity equals ours.

The lack of change begins with the fast fashion retailers. Brands know they have this tacit will of the people as “one senior executive at a big European high street brand [said] ‘but if a consumer buys a pair of jeans at $9.99 what are you really expecting the working conditions of those who made it or even just the environment where they live?”

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Dr. Sheng Lu, Professor in the Department of Fashion & Apparel Studies at the University of Delaware,

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Some may argue though that without our consumerism has bolstered

As the article states “People started to die but the garment industry continued unabated”, all this fueled by our consumerist tendencies.

Germanys and France at 70 percent (Geewax). as it goes onto describe the power that the ability of monetary prosperity in the West to outsource its conscious, in similar way to

The difference between stitching “120 trousers an hours, 10 hours a day” and the job of a middle class American doesn’t matter or seems like a nuance to Americans who, “attribute their position to their brilliance and diligence, rather than to luck or a rigged system” (Reeves).

Meritocracy enables inequality at home, which extends to our treatment of those living in foreign nations.

The collapse of Rana Plaza, one of the countless textile factories in Bangladesh resulted in direct neglect of cultural conscious, enabled by the incorrect investment of western ideology into he idea of meritocracy.

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Rows of anonymous dead bodies lie side by side, each covered in colorful cloth to provide some dignity in the last earthly moments, a line of near grieving family members looking at face after face to determine whether to finally let loose the “sea of tears” welling within them

Unless the supply-side economic model works wonders in the coming years, the US will have to try looking at other ways to spin the tax reform policies in order to close the very wide gap between the rich and the poor.  

While the current tax reform may provide a slight, temporary relief that will be felt among lower-earning Americans, the supply-side argument will be hard to support as the government debt rises.

despite their small tax break, to make a difference with a worse education and an unhealthier

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It did, however, help to end the recession in the mid-1980’s.

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While many people associate tax cuts with Reagan’s trickle-down economics

However, to delve into the social and Congressional debate of tax reform, the stark income inequality of America must be considered

Global Inequality

Consumers in the United States and other western countries have the luxury of being able to buy extremely cheap clothing at the cost of mistreated workers in other countries. These workers do not have the same privilege of protective labor laws. That problem may seem distant to consumers, but the fact that workers in New York had to endure the same difficulties means that this problem is much closer to home. Clothing companies need to be required to b

Upon reading about the collapse of the textile factory in Rana Plaza, I immediately thought of a similar event in US history: the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. An accident occurred in a poorly built textile factory, which caused many workers to die unnecessarily. The Trian

In this increasingly globalized world, consumers often have no idea what happens to the products they buy before it reaches a store

Last week, I stood in Forever 21, picking out clothes to wear to the various eating house events. I wasn’t looking for quality clothes, so I ventured over to the $5 or less section.

Race-based differences in individual treatment are some of the most difficult challenges in American society today, and are particularly apparent in criminal justice. Racial disparity in the criminal justice system challenges the foundation that our criminal justice system is based of off. A system that was supposed to be fair, effective and just. The perception of unwarranted racial disparities reduces the public’s confidence in the legal system, which will in turn affect public safety outcomes. Criminal justice practitioners cannot eliminate all disparities from the system alone, but need to work diligently to improve the fairness of the system.

The inequality in our justice system is disgraceful.

Black americans and Hispanics are more likely to have their cars searched than white americans.

There is much evidence to support racial inequality in the United States

This is evidentiary racial inequality, and a major issue in contemporary society

One particular aspect of inequality in the justice systems revolves around drugs

Racial inequality is very existent in today’s criminal justice system. In contemporary society, one of the most distinguished forms of protest relate to the United States justice system, particularly relating its treatment to minorities. The most prominent example is the justice system’s treatment to African Americans and Hispanics. The racial disparity in United States Prisons is evidence of racial inequality.

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In management and coaching, you often find a high ratio of men when compared to women. Yoou can find me coaching women, but very rarely ever find a woman coaching men. Even though there are women who hold positions in sports administration, the usually hold lower positions than men who generally hold the management positions

I sincerely hope that this gender discrimination will be curbed

which is debatably the world most famous sport

According to her, the decision to have women play only three sets compared to their counterparts who play five stemmed from a case where a female tennis player.

However, sports are seen as a pastime, created for men in the world

Commonly men are strong, daring, and aggressive, as compared to women who are usually gentle, sensitive and sympathetic

It is time that this society joins forces to fight for a work environment in which everyone is in an equal standing.

Women are not seen as equals in the workplace.

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Female leaders might be more willing to have everyone earn what they deserve, despite their gender, since they themselves have gone through this unfairness.

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Leadership positions for women in big companies are scarce

The United States, and every other country, should follow this policy because as mentioned, equal economic incentive would generate economic growth.

As people voice their positions regarding the pay gap, governments have to contribute with the necessary policy changes.

This hypocrisy cannot be tolerated in the fight for pay gap elimination.

With lack of economic incentive for women, talent is being wasted, and opportunity of progress is being tossed. Right now, many women feel discouraged because they know that no matter what they do, they will not get the same reward.

However, when they all joined forces and spoke up, they were unstoppable, and the same thing could happen for the pay gap disparity.

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The American Association of University Women indicated that at any level of a woman’s academic achievement, there is a man who is paid more for the same amount of education

Such inequality might seem minimum if focusing on the .20 cent difference, but it represents profit worth thousands of dollars less annually.

Women still have to work twice as hard to earn much less than men.

At this time in which national news is listening to women’s voices and their experiences in the workplace, it is imperative that all the disparities that women are exposed to daily become part of the narrative.

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October, 2017. Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of multiple sexual assault cases

To decrease the toxicity of gender roles, both sides need to be discussed, and the expectation of masculinity needs to addressed.

it can be concluded that masculinity is not a healthy standard to hold males to

Overall, this can destroy males’ emotional health.

sissy, pussy, or bitch.

Sex becomes a game rather than intimacy between two people

Add in the likelihood to

More so, men of color are targeted because of the criminal stereotype of their skin color, but that is another argument in itself that requires further background explanation besides the statement given.

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When in reality, they are degrading themselves and others by allowing masculinity to control their character.

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Football is a prime example of how sports reflect hypermasculinity. 

it is not the same standard women are put to,

Physicality is an important aspect of male socialization; and physical strength determines some degree of success. Males are expected to reach a physical standard that can be difficult to obtain without time and monetary commitment. Regardless, it is not the same standard women are put to, but the way men’s bodies are sexualized in media maintains the pressure to be physically fit—affirming masculinity’s role.

Self-esteem plays a large role in how we see ourselves, and low self-esteem can lead to depression or other mental and emotional problems. Within the concept of masculinity, there are multiple ideals of success: economic, physical, and emotional. The degree to which success is accomplished determines a man’s place in the hierarchy of masculinity.

When a man is not deemed successful through the eyes of masculinity, their self-worth is hindered

Masculinity is the prime way society defines what a man should be—tough, strong, abrasive, aggressive, successful.

When it comes to the opposing roles, a new wave of thought supports the idea of encouraging women to break their common gender roles. This wave is practical since women have remained oppressed for millennia, but men are removed from the conversation. Excluding half of the problem will not lead to a solution. As roles are shifting, a difference needs to be made about men’s expectations in their gender roles too. Because of gender roles, men feel obligated to stick to their stereotypes. It is time to acknowledge how unhealthy it is to foster toxic environments where boys are expected to maintain masculine standards.

It is time to acknowledge how unhealthy it is to foster toxic environments where boys are expected to maintain masculine standards.

Excluding half of the problem will not lead to a solution.

This wave is practical since women have remained oppressed for millennia, but men are removed from the conversation

Stereotypical expectations for males consist of being strong, non-emotional, or aggressive. For females, expectations entail being weak, emotional, or submissive.

they are anticipated to maintain the expectations held to them in that role

When defining someone’s gender, there are two separate social groups: male and female

Without real, structural change, it is inconceivable that Black wealth will ever be on par with White wealth, as inequality only grows

Reparations is a term that encompasses a multitude of policies that put money into the pockets of black Americans as recompense for their historical subjugation

The only real way to make real steps towards fixing the systemic issues is to create race-conscious policy for the purpose of building black wealth

Because of its role as both a metric of and factor in social-financial standing, credit becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, and when the process is stained by the legacy and present fact of systemic racism, this prophecy severely injures black people

Black people in the United States have an average income of about half that of white people

Secondary, less institutionalized lenders then take advantage of the poor, with payday lenders and similar firms charging triple digit interest rates for funds used for emergencies. This steep price to pay often traps people in a vicious cycle of debt, with dependence on credit and debt holdings rising in concert, utterly wiping out any wealth accumulation as people in growing debt lose the assets they have (Melzer, 2011). The bottom 95% has more than double the debt-to-income ratio of the top 5%, making clear the progression from income inequality to debt inequality to wealth inequality, there

Instead, it is a function of existing economic liberalism, preserving race, gender, and class dynamics as inequality grows (Calder, 2002).

live beyond their means.

In this way, the credit system actively punishes those who could get the most utility out of credit while aiding the wealthy, driving inequality.

This means that wealthy people who can afford to go into small amounts of debt are doubly rewarded because of their wealth as the poor must choose between a good credit score and stable finances as people live paycheck to paycheck, unable to pay off chronic debt (Hodson, 2014).

First, it is important to note that a person’s credit score is determined by factors that point more to how profitable a person’s spending and payment patterns are to financial institutions rather than an actual measure of financial stability.

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The story of credit in the contemporary sense must be placed into historical context. Although credit existed on small scales prior to this moment, the credit market was deregulated in 1917 as usury laws limiting interest rates to levels below profitable levels were repealed. Over the next decades, credit took root in American society, with the mortgage being introduced in response to the Great Depression. The post-World War II expansion was coupled with the rise and normalization of credit as an accompaniment and replacement to fiat currency. These systems financed massive growth and prompted major crashes (Calder, 2002). Despite credit’s usefulness as an engine of growth, it has not become a major driver of social mobility. Instead, it is a function of existing economic liberalism, preserving race, gender, and class dynamics as inequality grows (Calder, 2002).

Trust is an inherently subjective force, but when it is institutionalized and infected with prejudice, what was first a passive judgment is now an active weapon.

Also, allowing for judges to assess situations case by case, instead of forcing them to sentence civilians based upon a formula

Shifting funding away from prisons and towards rehabilitation programs or mental health institutes is likely one of the most important steps this country must take in an effort to eradicate inequality.

For the rest of these men’s entire lives, the period in which they were serving time prevented normal economic advancement. Incarceration affects everyone, and this is continually represented in Western’s study: among all men in the experiment, the level of wage growth was reduced by 30% as opposed to a man with the same level of education who had never been convicted. However, Western also discovered that wage inequality is almost twice as large for people of color.

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