Essay On Gender Inequality

Gender inequality has engulfed the United States and placed copious varying roles onto the male and female sexes. According to Leila Aboulela, Minaret, “All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.” Discrimination places women into different roles and takes away numerous privileges. However in America today after more than a century of struggles by dedicated activists who fought to alter these ideals and gain further rights, the perception of women in society and their contributions to society have been greatly transformed.

According to the Center of American Progress, In 2013, in households with children younger than 6 years old, employed women spent 38.4 more minutes per day caring for children than employed men; they also spent 41.4 more minutes doing household activities, such as cleaning and cooking. Women are also more likely to leave the labor force to take care of children or other relatives, which affects their workforce experience; differences in experience explain 10.5 percent of the wage gap. While this is often a choice, it is influenced by family needs and by societal understandings of women’s responsibilities when it comes to housework and child care

It is very difficult to see how women could achieve equality in the workplace without also achieving it at home. Care-work, which remains predominantly the responsibility of women in heterosexual couples, restricts the types of professions women can enter, limit promotion prospects especially so long as employers can look to men, who do not face so many barriers to uninterrupted careers and long working weeks. I argue that policies designed to foster more gender equality in the workplace such as leave policies and flexible working policies often end up reinforcing workplace gender inequalities unless such policies encourage fathers to take up more care responsibilities. Another alternative is to provide care in childcare institutions rather than in the home but since this work is predominantly carried out by other women (often working class and

By way of illustration, a woman executive project manager in Sweden generally makes SEK 56,600 or $6,574 USD per month, or $78,888 annually (“Best Paying,” 2015). If a woman project manager decided to take the first thirteen months off after giving birth and then give her husband the remaining time, she would still be bringing in $5,259 per month, or $68,367 over the course of thirteen months for her care giving services at home (“Best Paying,” 2015). After those first 390 days are up and the woman chooses to go back to work and trade places with her husband, the monthly income would then shift to a flat rate that the Swedish government determines upon calculating the average household income in the country (“Family Friendly,” 2016). Since the average monthly income in Sweden is currently SEK 37,083 or $4307 USD, the flat rate that the project manager’s husband would bring in would equal $4307 per month for the remaining three months, which is equivalent to a total of $12,921 (“Family Friendly,” 2016). As a combined total, the couple would bring in a total of $81,288 over the course of sixteen months, which is not significantly far off from the $105,184 that the wife would bring in alone if she had

The controversy surrounding gender inequality has been ever present. However, the definition and understanding of gender inequality appear to have changed over time as it became increasingly recognised that is a serious social problem that affects a significant proportion our society. According to Hirby (2016) gender inequality, is sometimes called sex discrimination, which means receiving unequal treatment based solely on gender. Women are believed to be greatest victims of gender inequality in the workplace. Despite decades of reform, statistics suggest that for every dollar a man earns a woman in a similar job earns just 77 cents (Hirby, 2016). This suggests that there are still improvements to be made.

With the context of a well-documented and increasing need for both parents to work, it appears these working mothers reframe mothering and paid work to indicate how they are still “in charge” of their children’s care even if not home full-time (Christopher, 2012). Mothers who are career professionals, with higher education levels and incomes, are able to outsource aspects of “intensive” mothering in a way provides their children more opportunities to compete in the global marketplace and become “successful” adults (Christopher, 2012; Cooper, 2014).

Gender inequality in the US is based on stereotypes. We labeled men and women differently based on assumption. For example, women are seen as a nurture figure in society and they are assumed to be a stay at home mom when they have kids. Implicit gender inequality example would be comparing math results between men and women. People believed that men will always have a better score while women will score poorly. Some explicit gender inequality examples can be seen in our Supreme Court and Congress. Historically, we only have 4 women that served on the bench and 104 women out of 535 members serving in Congress. These explicitly shows the gender inequality in the US starting from our very own

In the 1800’s a women was suppose to have four things Piety, Purity, submissiveness, and domesticity. These principles shaped the “Cult of True Womanhood” an idea that women were to be seen but not heard. Women had no say when it came to politics, they couldn’t own property, they were not allowed to do many jobs, and they couldn’t even speak in front of men. They had the duty to be a mother and raise their children but even thought they had this responsibility it was the husband who had the complete control and guardianship of the children. Because of these ideas it was very difficult for change to happen. When women started to receive more education they began to ask questions about why they were being denied these rights, which began the

Gender inequality has been an issue since long before the 1840s, when feminists finally brought the problem to light. Most ancient cultures were societies based on gender inequality, skewed towards male-dominance. Most societies are still mostly patriarchal, in fact. Patriarchy is the root of discrimination between sexes and genders and has been for a very long time.

Imagine a little girl in fifth grade, fascinated with the way the human brain works and determined make her mark on the world by saving lives as an accomplished and experienced neurosurgeon. Now, imagine this same girl as a freshman in high school, finding out that nearly all odds are stacked against her in making her childhood dreams come true. I am this girl, and I can still remember the day when I found out that, due to my gender, it would be much more difficult for me to succeed in the male-dominated field that is neurosurgery. Only a small fraction of neurosurgeons are females, which is pretty discouraging. Because of their gender, many women face discrimination and barriers not only in the field of neurosurgery, but also in quite a few other careers fields. Even though gender barriers pose a huge problem to all women in America, I plan to improve the situation by using my passion for this issue to pave the way for independent women to achieve to the best of their abilities.

Throughout history, countless acts of gender inequality can be identified; the causes of these discriminating accounts can be traced back to different causes. The general morality of the inequity relies on a belief that men are superior to women; because of this idea, women have spent generations suffering under their counterparts. Also, a common expectation is that men tend to be more assertive and absolute because of their biological hormones or instinctive intellect. Another huge origin is sexual discrimination; even in the world today, many women are viewed by men as just sex objects rather than a real human being with

The Swedish pidgdebatt revolved around whether or not tax deductions for the expenses of domestic workers should be allowed. It focused on the question of whether middle-class women who hire household help are creating a new class of marginal workers and perpetuating the regressive notion of “women’s work.” In other words, the debate is about the strong gendered division of labor where women are expected to manage child care, housework, and employment.

This paper will analyse gender inequality, specifically focusing on the ‘gender wage gap’ in Australia. Over the past three decades, there has been clear policy developments that focus on women involvement in the economy and the workplace. In particularly, the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012, is the key legislation in place that aims to promote and improve gender equality within employment, including the issue of equal remuneration between women and men. Yet, as of 2017, statistics show that a gender wage gap is apparent, as there is a 15.3% difference between fulltime men and women earnings (Workplace Gender Equality Agency, 2017, p. 1). Wage inequality is both a social exclusion and a discrimination on the basis of gender, which are both concepts that are aimed to be avoided by presiding governments, however it is still occurring. From this analysis, it will be argued that the equality must end, and that employers should pay men and women the same salary for the same job. Firstly, a brief history will be provided, then relevant government policies will be discussed, and subsequently responses to these policies will be shared. The discussion part of this paper aims to view this social policy issue through the lenses of values and ideology, which will look at both a for and against intervention viewpoint with wage equality. However, concludingly equal opportunity is an objective of social policy which is why the wage gap in Australia must end.

Within industrialized nations, the role and image of women has undergone profound changes over the past few decades. Female participation in the workforce has increased steadily and societal attitudes towards women engaging in paid work have undergone significant change (Schwartz, 1988). These historical shifts have made the equality of women and men in society and the workforce an attainable goal. The participation of women in paid labour has challenged traditional gender roles and the societal ideal of the nuclear family with a sole male breadwinner. However, the primary responsibility of childcare continues to fall upon women.

Apart from this area Gustaffson (1995) believed that divorce laws not to oblige fathers to support their children. Additionally, the financial ability was lacked by women to access the courts .while enabled legal provisions that equal sharing of responsibilities and child care among parents, on work constraints women’s are relaxed and eased so poverty declined among mothers for an example authorities in Sweden serious attempts are made to identify the fathers to make them share the cost of finance for the child