This is a brief assignment to be completed online by Monday 25th July.
Mad definitions: Mad definitions are usually definitions that are humourous but also evocative e.g. ‘School: a place where parents pay and children play’; or ‘politician: a person who shakes your hand before the elections and your confidence afterwards.’
In her chapter on work in ‘The Beauty Myth’ Wolf uses the following terms:
• Feminine Mystique
• The Glass Ceiling
• The Second Shift
• Bona fide Occupational Qualification
Look up these terms on the Internet, understand what they mean and write up your own one-line definition for it – it can be as wacky as you wish but it should indicate the commonly accepted meaning of the term. You may post these definitions in the comments space under this post.
• Feminine Mystique- the faceless monster that male chauvinists traditionalists can’t seem to face.
ReplyDelete• The Glass Ceiling-` the indefinable bogey man that haunts the capable qualified women and minorities in the corporate world or the unknown underworld of the corporate world that threatens the capable qualified minorities.
• The Second Shift- the shift that provides to make the earlier shift more comfortable.
• Bona fide Occupational Qualification- the Anubis of the entire work force(civilization).
Feminine Mystique: A situation where a happily married woman is unhappy.
ReplyDeleteThe glass ceiling: The invisible chain that weighs down women and prevents them from soaring.
The second shift: A phenomenon where women broke free from their primary duties as mothers and caregivers to strive forward as professionals, hence performing their second shift.
Bona fide Occupational Qualification: An employment practice where superfluous attributes serve as basis of discrimination.
Feminine mystique – a well settled, “educated” housewife having to deal with identity crisis.
ReplyDeleteThe glass ceiling – a sorry excuse of a male chauvinistic system, that prevents the women from rising to a higher position of power within a corporation.
Bona fide occupational qualification – a quality of trait that the employer seeks in an employee, which later turns into discrimination.
The second shift – women taking care of business when at work and the kids when at home.
Feminine Mystique:A term that would have saved a lot of money for people, who paid by character in the matrimonial columns of newspapers, looking for 'homely girl, looking to start a family'.
ReplyDeleteThe Glass Ceiling:The outcome of men wanting to always be on top.
The Second Shift:The full-time job that a women has on the side of her full-time occupation.
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification: The basic requirement to qualify for discrimination.
• Feminine Mystique- A trait they(men) hunt for before picking up their woman.
ReplyDelete• The Glass Ceiling- Is something which women keep gloating at, trying to have a glimpse of a life beyond it.
• The Second Shift- Its a job with no rewards nor retirement plans.
• Bona fide Occupational Qualification- Categorizing before even getting the job.
Feminine Mystique: self annihilating trap triggered by the fear of being perceived as 'unfeminine'
ReplyDeleteGlass Ceiling: is a working woman's kryptonite
Second Shift: her "perfect" job without a paycheck.
Bona fide occupational qualification: certificate that allows men to be just them.
The Feminine Mystique is what the Desperate Housewives would have been a part of if they were living in the 1950’s and 60’s.
ReplyDeleteThe Glass Ceiling is what let’s those who are already at the top stay at the top, unchallenged.
The Second Shift consists of all the duties at home that a working woman has to fulfill before society can accept that she is a working woman.
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification is something beyond feminism or sexism- it’s just the way things are.
Feminine Mystique: The X factor needed for washing, cooking and cleaning.
ReplyDeleteThe Glass Ceiling: The snake that does not let the women climb the ladder.
The Second Shift: The payless job for women.
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification: A must, for getting dominated by the bosses.
Feminine Mystique: When the only mystery in the women’s life was unfathoming domesticity and removing the stains from bath tub.
ReplyDeleteGlass ceiling : Cinderella’s glass shoe phenomena in reverse may be viewed as the Glass Ceiling. It's like the 'lakshman rekha ' for career-oriented women.
Second Shift: The second shift is a more sophisticated way of referring to domestic work which the houswives would have to come back to , after working at the factories/ offices.
Bona fide occupational Qualification: a phenomena by virtue of which , a woman's qualification may be completely disregarded by her employers . A less than gratifying job may then be handed to her.
Feminine Mystique - A heroic attempt to lift up the unheroic era of women of the mid 20th century.
ReplyDeleteGlass ceiling - A transparent barrier clearly visible enough showing the wide gap between males and females in case of training experience, education, equivalent job titles etc.
The Second Shift - A more refined term used to explain the burden they have to do after they return back from their work, due to lack of cooperation from men's side.
Bonafide occupational qualification - A quality or an attribute that increases the chances of disregarding women employer's qualification.
Feminine Mystique - Housewives locked up inside an involuntary self defined emotional barrier
ReplyDeleteThe Glass Ceiling - The invisible barrier above the women on which the men stand and rule.
The Second Shift - Working women doing chores after a hard day at work because the "man" rests and reads newspaper/
The never ending job that keeps the house together.
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification - Being discriminated because you got the job, and you are a woman.
Feminine Mystique – The “guilt”that women felt for not doing anything beyond household chores, and which thus made a woman question her femininity, in the 50’s and 60’s
ReplyDeleteThe Glass Ceiling – The invisible platform that allows men to build “women-proof”bridges upon
The Second Shift – The “Job”that takes all feminist revolutions backward by a century, and the male domination of women forward by two. The Primary reason for the male’s need for a wife
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification – The "excuse" that men use to get away with suppression, domination and oppression...of women.
Feminine Mystique- A agenda Ekta kapoor is working on.
ReplyDeleteThe glass ceiling-Women making wishes to the shooting stars.
The second shift-Exploitation done by the men unknowingly.
CV
Bona fide occupational qualification-
JOB CV
-Coming from a wealthy family with ( Heavy dowry)
-Done Masters in Cambridge University (London) & all household work.
-Ready to have kids when elders in the house wish to have.
-A showpiece to be presented in the parties and do rest of the above.
Feminine Mystique :Time consuming boring monotony in the realms of the home.
ReplyDeleteThe Glass Ceiling :Unbreakable by qualified women.
The Second Shift : A 1950's woman's reason for lethargy? it being the time for the second shift back home.
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification : Acquiring without aspiring.
Feminine Mystique: The ancient formulas of seducing men while mopping the floor, passed down through the generations, revamped to suit modern women.
ReplyDeleteThe Glass Ceiling: The glass barrier inside which a woman feels secure in the corporate world, unaware of the perverts that may secretly watch her.
The Second Shift: The secret society of slaves that manages the Roti, Kapda and Makaan* of Indian households along with always looking presentable in front of In-Laws.
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification: A publicly stated document of how much taller, stronger, sharper you are than your counterparts.
*Roti, Kapda, Makaan: Bread, Cloth and House
Female mystique: soaps and tubs and a long day's scrubs, that's what girls are made of.
ReplyDeleteThe Glass Ceiling: That thing you need to avoid bumping your head on if you want to hold on to your pretty face.
The Second Shift: The after dark, out of wedlock affair that a woman ends up having.
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification: The qualities that a man is happy not to possess so the less meaty job goes to his female counterparts.