Sexual Stereotypes and Stereotyping :: Feminism Feminist Women Criticism

Sexual Stereotyping assumed Preconceptions and False Conclusions in Blaming Technology In an excerpt titled The womens rightist Face of Antitechnology from his 1981 book Blaming Technology, Samuel C. Florman explains why he thinks so few amend women in modern society are engineers. The excerpt was written dead after he had visited an all-female liberal arts school, Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, to coax a few young women to become engineers. His mission failed and his essay makes correct why he had such trouble. Florman has more than one idea as to why young, educated women shy away from engine room as a career option. First, he nones that America has inherited much of its culture from England, where engineering has not been considered a high-class occupation. This is apparently so because engineering did not fully separate from craftsmanship until the mid-nineteenth century. Florman claims that most young, male engineers come from lower- and middle-class families. He also claims that most young women who are educated in math and science come from middle- and upper-class families. For this reason, Florman explains that educated women generally regulate engineering as being below their social class, and therefore do not pursue it as an option. He supports his position with a horizontal surface about how Herbert Hoover, after a capacious conversation, told a woman that he was an engineer and how she responded, Why, I thought you were a gentleman1 Florman wherefore turns to the feminists and asks why they havent taken the lead in changing this situation. Flormans main crinkle against the feminist movement is that it is fueled by a greed for power. He suggests that women, especially feminists, are attracted to perceivable power, or power which is obvious to the cultural eye. They want to become doctors, lawyers, and politicians. The desire for power is also intimately committed with social class, according to Florman. He detect s this as one of the major reasons as to why so few women seek out engineering they see it as a career without power. Florman sees women as being a big money more interested in the privileges than in the responsibilities. According to him, the ultimate feminist dream will never be realized as long as women would rather supervise the world than help build it. Until women reach out to understand the technology around them, and help to create it, they will ceaselessly suffer.