Blog Number 14

In today’s day and age gender organization is something that we continue to work through as we work for equal rights. As we come more into this society of equal rights and that ‘everyone should have the same rights or offers afforded to them’ mentality we have gotten more away of actual gender organizations and what they truly represent. For example, why do I a 23 year old white male need to become part of some sort of African American club? Is this heritage in my family blood line? No. Now this situation is not uncommon for us to see, so why do we feel the need to go about this sort of route and join these sorts of culture clubs? Well, a lot of it I think has to do with people wanting to be able to say, I told you so! It goes the same for gender organization. There is no reason for me a male to join an organization that is female driven/geared for. Now on the flip side of things, why is it such a big deal for a women to be denied from an all male club, or from a job that is mainly populated by males but on the flipside you usually never hear of men complaining that they are not able to get a job as a job in a predominately female populated industry? Now in our reading Britton stated “organizations are gendered at the level of structure” I really like this statement for a few different reasons. Personally I believe that women are a lot more apt to go out and fight for the equal right. While on the other hand a man usually does not take being denied a position at a place of employment very harsh as they usually just move on to the next job application or interview. However, why is that? Well, I think it mainly comes down to the fact that women have always fought for that top position or have the equality as a man in the same respect to the workforce so when they are denied or its not in their favor it usually becomes more personal than it does for a man.

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