An Exploration into Sexual Harrasment

I was particularly interested in the idea of women in the workplace as its argued that there is now equality for women in terms of fair treatment and support. I watched a TEDtalk by Laura Bates titled ‘everyday sexism’ which explores the issue of everyday sexism in which she talks about little incidents of everyday sexual harassment that should be spoken about. Ths interested me because it is an issue that isn’t spoken about in h mainstream media enough and is ignored and in some cases normalised. Laura Bates then went on to set up a website where men and women could anonymously add entries of sexual harassment called the everyday sexism project and received 50,000 entries in the first 18 hours. This caused me to want to explore the legislation regarding sexual harassment and I found that the 2010 equality stated that sexual harassment is a form of unlawful discrimination. Th fact that Laura Bates released her TEDtalk in February 2019 leads me to question the effectiveness of the law in combating sexual harassment. Laura Bates stated that most of her entries on to her website were of women and what they experienced in the workplace. 

Do we prepare young people for the workplace or for prison?

Alice Goffman did a TED talk on this exact topic talking about how in america some kids are primed for college and others for prison. This interested me because it is true to a certain extent. Its claimed that we have equal opportunities in education and that it is an opportunity for those less fortunate to work hard and succeed but in reality it just creates a bigger and bigger divide; separating people in the wrong way.

She speaks in particular about the college that she went to; University of Pennsylvania. she says that the area in which it is based bordered a neighbourhood where the people living there were less fortunate educational as well as economically. After she finished at college she went to live in he neighbourhood to observe the police and the young people that lived there. She found that from a young age children were playing games about the police and how they would capture people and as they got older being taught how run from the police and where to hide. People being arrested and put into prison was a common occurrence in hie neighbourhood.

I thought this was interesting because it suggests that there s a class divide found worldwide as we in the UK experience such a class divide. Although it is argued by many people that society is a meritocracy and is fair and that everyone is given the equal opportunity in reality it isn’t. Your money and ethnicity define whether you are prepared for work or prison, two very separate routes, one spiralling upwards one spiralling downwards.

This Ted talk gave me an insight in to crime levels and and poverty as well as elements of socialisation as well as institutional racism which ensures it covers wide areas of sociology so definitely worth the watch!

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

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