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During the 1950s, urban Chinese women started to join male-dominated fields. A way to promote women's new roles under collectivization was the formation of labor models. Labor models were idealized women who excelled in production and were used by the state to encouraged other women to follow their example and mobilize. [7]
In academia as well, much remains to be accomplished in terms of gender equality. Many departments, especially those in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, are heavily male-dominated. [40] Women achieve disproportionately less prestige and success in academia than their male counterparts. [41]
"Girlboss" is a neologism that denotes a woman "whose success is defined in opposition to the masculine business world in which she swims upstream". [1] [attribution needed] They are described as confident and capable women who are successful in their career, or the one who pursues her own ambitions, instead of working for others or otherwise settling in life.
(Life's Like a Comedy) 1 October 2007 29 March 2008 Starring Shihori Kanjiya. The storyline focuses on the art of rakugo. Kiyomi's dream is to become a rakugoka, despite rakugo being a male-dominated field. 78 Hitomi (Eyes) 31 March 2008 27 September 2008 Starring Nana Eikura. Hitomi's dream is to become a dancer of modern music. 79
The term loophole woman, coined by Caroline Bird in her book Born Female: The High Cost of Keeping Women Down (1968), has a similar meaning. Marie Mullaney defines the loophole woman as one who, "successful in a male-dominated field such as law, business administration, or medicine, is opposed to other women's attaining similar levels of ...
Female engineering majors match their male counterparts in number who go into the engineering occupation, but physical and life sciences majors turned toward a broader range of careers outside STEM. [26] Within these career fields, there is a pattern of sexist hiring practices that lead to less women being hired in these fields. [26]
The Smurfette principle is the practice in media, such as film and television, to include only one woman in an otherwise entirely male ensemble. [1] [2] It establishes a male-dominated narrative, where the woman is the exception and exists only in reference to the men.
Studies of male sexual coercion and female resistance in nonhuman primates (for example, chimpanzees [88] [89]) suggest that sexual conflicts of interest underlying the patriarchy precede the emergence of the human species. [90] However, the extent of male power over females varies greatly across different primate species. [90]