Bikinis: a way to transform a woman to object

Even if common sense told us that when you put a scantily clad woman in front of men they will see it as objects, not as a person with thoughts and feelings, a recent research is confirming this.

According to National Geographic, when bain scans were done in 21 heterosexual males, the region of the brain associated with tool use lighted up.

Men saw women "as sexually inviting, but they were not thinking about their minds".

In the case of women, it's difficult to know if they would react the same way that men because women tend to try to interpret men's minds, think what they are interested in and try to please them.

I don't know if this is an instinct or it's something cause by media, but I believe we have a better knowledge and information that allow us to avoid being treated as tools and that can help us our daughters to understand this and try not to objectify themselves.

Women must stand by themselves to close wage gap

In an article published in Time Magazine there is an explanation on why men earn more than women doing the same job.

A study made by two researchers from the University of Florida found that men that have more stereotypical views of gender roles earn more than their peers with more egalitarian ideas.

In the case of women, those who have more traditional ideas (i.e. that women belong in the home) earn less than women with egalitarian ideas.

Why does this happen? The article explains that men with traditional roles and women with egalitarian ideas earn more because they negotiate a better salary, because they believe they deserve this wage.

Also, a woman with traditional ideas show attitudes that is possible their employers perceive. In this case, employers are more likely to take advantage of them.

In other words, it's an everyday job to show women deserve the same kind of wage.  This may seem unfair, but there is hope in the fact that women are being treated less like second-class persons and more like any other employee.