浅析英语中的性别歧视现象

　　(2) Physiological factorFor extended work and life together, people realized that menare tall in stature, strong in muscle and robust in physique.

　　In contrary to men, women are small in stature, weak inphysique and have more fat and less muscle than men. Womenalso mature more rapidly. [2] In a word, men are stronger thanwomen. This determines that men play a more and more importantrole in social and economic lives. A man’s job is to workoutside but a woman’s job is to stay at home, do the houseworkand take care of the children. Women are treated as the weakerones and they realize their own values through their marriagesto men. At last, women are lower in status. They have to leechon to men and are dominated by men. Gradually, people begin todiscriminate women and think that they are inferior inintelligence. This wrong perspective forms slowly and reflectsin language.

　　(3) Social factor (Labor division)Feminists all claim that we live in a patriarchal society: asociety of men, ruled by men and for men. Patriarchy depictsmen as the perfect norm against which women are measured andfound lacking.

　　Both the Western and Eastern societies use sex, to one degreeor another, in allocating tasks, activities, rights, andresponsibilities. As for the job done by men and women, thereis a long-stereotyped notion of what they can do. In history,there has been a division of labor--a division in whichwomen’s place was restrained at home for housework andchild-care while men worked outside being the breadwinner. Atlast, men had dominance over women, and women had to bedependent on men. This was the turning point for women. Fromthen on, in paternal society, slavery society and capitalistsociety, women had been on the bottom of society. In long andendless course of history, sexism against women has beenaccumulated. It is due to different labor division that leadsto different social status. This has been clear in ancient andmodern society. Later, in addition to domestic work, womenbegan to enter the paid work place. However, even though halfof women are employed outside the home, the belief persiststhat woman is mainly, and primarily, in the roles of wife andmother.