Within the lesson in class, we have further been educated about the lack of female influences within powerful/influential positions in society. And how through how society works it disregard women as their purpose is to follow the traditional woman role. But, as it has been further researched that from the time girls are young they are discouraged from any role that has power involved. Furthermore, as young girls enter high school they are most likely not going to run for any influential position, which then leads to adult hood and they are automatically discouraged. Also, from a very young age girls are expected to reach this certain image about how a woman should behave like and look like. Which, makes them feel even more unworthy of any important because now they are consumed with this obsession of being perfect to others rather than themselves. And now that young girls are striving to look like a certain image of what a woman should be they are now only focusing on that and therefore become distracted from things like school. To continue on the topic of the underrepresentation of woman in influential positions, men are 10% more likely to enroll into a political science than woman. This is because women are likely to become subjects to harassment and discouragement of in a successful career within politics. So, in reality those who run for positions that involve any sort of power/influence are degraded and harassed endlessly. But, those who advertise themselves that please others and have no real powerful message that would motivate others into improving themselves, are enabling the image that women have surrounding them.
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I have noticed this throughout my life as well. Men are often encouraged to pursue STEM positions and positions of power. And when men are in powerful positions, they are seen as a leader, but when a woman is in that same position, she is seen as bossy.
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