{"id":6727,"date":"2018-03-27T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2018-03-26T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T18:29:54","slug":"me-too-on-the-manufacturing-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2018\/03\/27\/me-too-on-the-manufacturing-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Me Too on the Manufacturing Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Much of the media’s coverage of the Me Too movement focuses on high-profile cases of sexual harassment, as well as gender inequality in white-collar workplaces. Sexual Harassment and other forms of gender inequality are also problems — perhaps even more so — for male-dominated, blue-collar workplaces. A recent\u00a0article<\/span><\/a> in The <\/em><\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i>\u00a0highlights gendered discrimination in\u00a0workplaces like mines, car factories, and construction sites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sociologist Abigail Saguy<\/span><\/a> argues that men often perceive less-feminine or lesbian women as “not fully women” and therefore as less threatening. On the other hand, men tend to harass more-feminine women more. And women who play along with sexist banter, still face negative labels, like “slut.”\u00a0<\/span>Saguy elaborates,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSexual harassment is often a way in which the men reaffirm women\u2019s femininity, and [put them] back in their place\u2026. At the same time, women will play up their femininity and flirt a little bit and play along with some of the stereotypes\u2026 to be accepted.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For men in low-paying and dangerous jobs, these affirmations to their masculinity become key rewards, and challenges to their masculinity may heighten discrimination towards women.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEven if they have to tolerate bad working conditions, the compensation is they were real men\u2026 then women were moving into these occupations, so what does that mean? If women can do the job, maybe it\u2019s not so masculine after all.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much of the media’s coverage of the Me Too movement focuses on high-profile cases of sexual harassment, as well as gender inequality in white-collar workplaces. Sexual Harassment and other forms of gender inequality are also problems — perhaps even more so — for male-dominated, blue-collar workplaces. A recent\u00a0article in The New York Times\u00a0highlights gendered discrimination […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,15,55,13],"tags":[104054,39116,39112,470,39114,11306,39110,418,104055,104053,104038,104039,39115,10413,176,76,1008],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-gender","category-inequality","tag-blue-collar","tag-crime","tag-culture","tag-discrimination","tag-gender","tag-gender-inequality","tag-inequality","tag-jobs","tag-male-dominated-jobs","tag-me-too","tag-metoo","tag-movement","tag-politics","tag-sexual-harassment","tag-sexuality","tag-work","tag-workplace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6734,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions\/6734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}