Closing Gender Gaps : The Gap Between Men And Women

Gender gap cannot be dismantled by only amending laws against sex discrimination, but when it enables all to the same share in law. Women need to break through barriers to be on the path to success. Women are not men and need not compete with men to show her vitality. Women bleeds and is not a choice, this does not mean men need to bleed. Women require challenging patriarchy rather than each other. Akhila had a barrier in her life of her fears to do things for herself. Fear can give no power, but facing truth sets a being free. Her emotions are not to be squished but nurtured well. Wearing masks one after another to please the society only weakens the natural energy of a female. We need not cover up our insecurity from the world. Women should stop dying from things that happened in past. It is ok to be imperfect, which is human. Women do not require finding their identity in the comparison with men. When a woman stands up to voice for herself, she raises up for all the women globally.

Throughout history, we can see that humans have developed quickly in almost all fields including advancements politically, scientifically, and morally. However, one of the greatest advancement, which to this day has not been fully achieved by humanity as a whole, is the equality between the two genders. Since the beginning of civilization, we come to see that all societies with an exception of a few, were mainly male dominated. Men were always seen as superior to women. Men were not just seen as the head of the household, but they were seen as the leaders and organizers of all political, social, and economic affairs for both men and women. However, as time progressed, so did women. Gradually, women were more involved in the work force due to many factors including wars and primarily due to the industrial revolution. Women took the role of nurses and hospitality workers during wars, and as the industrial revolution initiated, they began to work in factories for low pay. During the last half of the 20th century, women’s rights, referring to the social and human rights of women, became a very highly emphasized and recognized issue especially in the United States. By the 1960’s the role of women completely transformed. Women more than ever before, began to enter the paid work force, participated in protests demanding equal rights, and established organizations such as the National Organization for Women. Overtime, these feminist trends of the 1960’s that continued for the

The article “Moving Beyond the Gender Gap” by Abby M. McCloskey discusses the gender gap when voting. In a national election, more women vote for the Democrat nominee rather than the Republican nominee. In the past, Mitt Romney lost the women’s vote by twelve points to President Barack Obama. In the most recent election, Hillary Clinton won the women’s vote by twelve points. When broken down by race and ethnicity, the gap grew to ninety points among black women and forty-two points among Latina women.

Gender roles and expectations have a lot of impacts on our society and it needs to be changed in order to create a better civilisation. Although our society has ameliorated tremendously in the past years, there are still some discriminatory actions among genders that are affecting someone 's life negatively. Any remaining differential between genders need to be changed for a better moral standard of living.

Throughout history, gender inequality has shown to be an issue across the globe, especially in the workplace. Men have always had a greater and more powerful presence in careers of all kinds. Today, in the sports marketing industry, this proves to be true as women constantly battle to make advances within their companies and outshine their male colleagues. The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of the “gender gap” in the business world, specifically sports marketing for the National Football League and how this issue may be solved: by presenting a sense of self-confidence in professional women.

Gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development. Girls and women have made major strides since 1990, but they have not yet gained gender equity. The disadvantages facing women and girls are a major source of inequality. All too often, women and girls are discriminated against in health, education, political representation, labour market, etc — with negative repercussions for development of their capabilities and their freedom of choice (http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/gender-inequality-index-gii).

We have all heard about the gender wage gap on the news or in the current debates, but why is it any concern to you? I understand that this issue might not apply to a college student; however, you need to be aware of this issue since it could affect your major and future profession. Surprisingly, this issue even applies to males. Some argue that women are facing a wage gap because they choose more flexible professions, lack negotiation skills, and produce less as many hours as men mostly because they are assumed to devote more time to children. I disagree, because women should have the right to earn same amount of money as a man regardless of their personality,

Further insights into the relevance of the presence of role of women in the society are Paola Giuliano. In the article: The role of women in society; from Preindustrial to Modern times, she distinguishes the role of women from time immemorial. They have often been poised to take up the lighter roles in life, while males have been entrusted with the greater responsibilities. This collaborates with the sentiments of Barnett and Hyde that women have been looked down upon by their incapability to handle masculine jobs and positions. Naila Kabeer is another author who sturdily supports gender equality. The author speaks out on the need for women empowerment if at all the millennium development goals are to be achieved. In his works, he expresses

Since the age, every country, developed or not, have been observed in the impact of gender discrimination, women and men, people of the ruling has been suppressed. With the spread of education among the masses, and the more awareness among the people in the way of realizing the value of equality between man and woman. With the passage of time, people have begun to realize the worth of a woman, a family and a society in a country. A better education for girls, and more attention was given to a healthy life and a bright future.

War is inevitable because of opposing views and conflicting opinions. During these hard times, women, although rarely recognized, played a big part in the success of our country. They made their mark during World War Two when they took over the jobs of men and proved they are just as efficient in the workplace. There has been a dramatic change since then. Women have found their identity through these hardships; which in return, has set the pace for the years to come and narrowed the gap of the social norm of women in the work place.

‘Gender discrimination’ is prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially: discrimination against women (Merriam-Webster, 2014). Women are essential to the survival of the human race, yet they have faced centuries of discrimination and they have generally been viewed as the “weaker sex”. Only in 1964 did America rule discrimination in employment based on gender illegal. Even in the 21st century, women are still being treated differently whether it is in the workplace or at home, and this is unacceptable. Even though women make up half of the world’s population, incredibly, they represent 70% of the world’s poor. . Women make up 70% of the working hours worldwide; however, they only earn 10% of the world’s income. Despite society changing in the past 50 years to be more accepting of women’s rights, many cultures still hold men in higher regard than women. In industries such as the media or music industries, women are often objectified and exploited. In order for society to progress further, drastic changes are still needed. Even though the majority of instances of gender inequality affect women, males also face discrimination in certain situations.

Gender equality fails to achieve and global gender gap is widening these days. Generally speaking, the index 2017 shows an increase in gender disparity and the world remains gender gap of 32% in four dimension economic participation, education, health and politics (The Global Gender Report 2017). In my opinion, historical and religion factors, weak implementation of law and lack of political empowerment contribute to the failure of achieving gender equality. Gender equality means that men and women enjoy equal right in social life and the same status in marriage and family, and it does not require women to become the same as men, but it ensures the equality of opportunities, resources and rewards for men and women. In the past, men were often called as “breadwinner” and women were “homemaker”. We have to admit the fact that there is a biological difference between men and women and women are physically weaker than men, but that does not mean that men are superior to women. Because of so many reasons that block the pathway for women to obtain rights of equality, most people will assume that gender equality is not achievable.

The oppression of women is based on false assumption and preconceived notions by the male domination world, has been obvious and responsible for paving the way for serious gender issues to emerge. Due to the narrow realms of activity in society, deprived from essential human rights, restricted educations scope, open to unhealthy physical and mental abuse, this society has not given women the opportunity to rise to their full potential. The impact of gender discrimination has not only affected the future of the women today but it has resulted in the slow progress of human mind in general.

In the employment part of research, men employees have higher opportunities to engage in high-level positions, but there is no evidence to show that to be laid off due to employees’ genders. In the education part of research, from the results of survey, it shows only a small degree of gender inequality in education system. Most of interviewees will spend the same proportion on their sons and daughters. For family part, we find that the gender inequality exists in families. The expectation of women is getting higher, they only need to take care the family, and also need to bear economic burden. Also men still hold more power than women, they act as a leader in decision-making. In media part, over a half of interviewees agreed that mass media always creates gender inequality, specially TV and magazines. We also find that gender inequality exists in politics nowadays, women have less opportunity to be elected, and in the villages of New Territories women have no rights for voting and electing.

Gender relates to the social constructions and relations between men and women and it does not simply look at maleness or femaleness. Development is a multidimensional concept but in general it entails social upward mobility and empowerment but not limited to this. In studying gender relations and development it is of great importance to look at