Gender And Gender Equality

Many people are often misinformed or given bad first impressions of feminism. However, feminism is equal rights for all people of different race, sex, gender, and sexuality. Many of the people that give feminism a bad name, include a self-proclaimed feminist that is running for presidency, and meninists who are satirical equal rights activists. In reality, feminism is pro-gender equality and opportunities for all types of people.

Since the beginning of the American feminist movement in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention to the present, gender equality has been heavily debated and discussed. The liberties being called for by feminists have changed over the years, but their message has always remained the same; equality for all women and men. “Lean In…”, written by modern day feminist and COO at Facebook, is a new age telling of the difficulties and inequalities women face in the current day corporate front office. The author, Sheryl Sandberg, uses personal anecdotes and experiences to come up with her own versions of the definition of feminism, the importance of a “life partner”, and how women are to achieve

Sheryl Sandberg discussed in her book Lean In, how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. She spoke to women about the issues they face in the workplace, and about how they could benefit themselves and their careers by taking risks and accepting challenges, while forgetting about the dangerous myth of “having it all” and setting boundaries for themselves, the current COO of Facebook and the former Google executive has written a book called Lean In, a sort of feminist manifesto about a women’s involvement in the workplace, acknowledging the lack of females in leadership positions and encouraging women to be more assertive in their career goals, ”it is time for us to face the fact that our revolution has stalled” she said. She also talks about her struggles and achievements on the way to becoming a member of Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and also one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. “A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and men run half our homes.

Gender roles are born through social construct rather than given biologically. Language in male and female roles have been substantially focused on “how the system is put to use in practice” (Bucholtz 1999: Page 80). If a person studied the differences of feminism and masculinity, the differences will outstand each other, because women are expected to act and speak in a specific way, as well as men. An insight of the differentiation of men and women would be “women may use “men’s” forms to index authority or casualness, and men may use “women’s” forms to index affection or diffidence” (Bucholtz 1999: Page 81). The ideologies that have been embedded in what it means or what it takes to be a “man” or a “woman” have been altered through

This essay will look at Gender discrimination in an Australian prospective with some overseas perspectives overlapping this essay will look at gender deference’s in pay in Australia and discuss the ideas and arguments surrounding gender equality in the work place. Gender equity in work place is still a heavily understudied in Australia and as is more or less worldwide. In Australia a country of so called “equality” which is still, even in the 21st century is an ambiguous and questionable ideal as seen by the lack of changes since implementation to close the gap. Moves towards equality have been great back in the 70s though after there has been little change and a gap averaging up to 25% from then and now, which is a cause for concern.

Throughout the past few decades, the gender inequality discourse have became a dominant feature of international, national and local policy debate on the subject of economic development. This policy concern has emerged as an area of scholarly research which seeks to show that improving gender equity leads to economic growth.

Centuries after another and now the present, the twenty-first century still faces a huge issue towards the acceptance of gender equality. Nonetheless, women are unappreciated in today’s society’s workforce. But for Sheryl Sandberg, who wrote the article “Lean In”, believes that any women in the world could be whoever they want to be. Sandberg inspires many girls of today’s generation for being a successful woman who followed her dreams and not let inequalities and gender roles affect her. Through Sandberg’s hard work, she became the COO of Facebook and eventually became a billionaire. Her success story was shared on her essay where she stated encouraging aspects of how women should be. Such as, leaning into their careers instead of stepping back to focus on family. In addition, Sandberg concludes that women shouldn’t be afraid of pursuing their ambition because of the negative views that they may receive or even the fear of failing. In other hand, the author of “Beyond Lean In”, Bell Hooks argues that leaning in is maybe not for everyone. Hooks criticizes Sandberg about her views of how women should be because Hooks thinks that Sandberg did not consider the women with different backgrounds. Furthermore, Hooks did not ignore the fact that some women struggles to succeed in the workforce due to their race and social class. Hooks points out a very legitimate fact, because she actually looks at different types of women while Sandberg might not be able to relate to that because

Growing up can be very confusing and creates a lot pressure for many. Young children and even adults might come across a confused state regarding where they belong or stand. There have been many controversies over same sex marriage because many do not agree that a man should marry another man or a women should marry another female. Based on this one can see that there are expectations on what a female or male should do, which is where gender role socialization takes place. Gender role socialization is the process whereby individuals learn and internalize the attitudes, values, behaviors and norms considered appropriate for males and females in our society. In addition to this it also teaches us ways to think, talk, and act.

During the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, women were not allowed to vote; instead, they were forced to become housewives and obey their loved ones (“Women’s Suffrage Movement”). On August 20th, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, women finally gained equal rights in American society, after countless struggles to obtain it. In today's society, people question if women should assist in military combat or not. Gender equality remains an issue that the world is still having. Women can handle themselves on their own and be independent. Women should also have the right to serve in combat if she meets all criteria and should not be held back from her decision. Regardless what others may believe, women should be allowed and have the right to serve in combat and protect her country.

“There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world. Kathleen Hanna Read more at:” - Kathleen Hanna. Feminism is not a new idea but it is a growing one and people have different views on it, but most feminist can agree on is that women need to move up in the workplace and Bell Hook’s the author of “Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In” and Sheryl Sandberg the author of “Lean in: What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?” both explore. Even though it might appear that Bell Hook’s and Sheryl Sandberg agree that women should be more proactive in their workplace, on a closer look, they actually disagree about the type of people who should be taking the advice, seen through Bell Hook’s criticism of Sheryl Sandberg.

Women have struggled to achieve gender equal rights. Feminist solidarity raises awareness of women’s issues and it gives empowerment to women to continue to fight from inequality and race discrimination. Maia Kotrosits states, “It was not just that we were different . . . it was that we each had a tremendous stake in our difference,” which indicates that women of different races have united to address the problems that they have experienced (Kotrosits 134). Consequently, they will continue to fight for their own equal rights because they deserve to be treated the same as men. The image by Dan Wynn conveys feminist solidarity against discrimination and violence against women, by displaying two women of different races with matching outfits, body language, and expression.

In module 3, I would like to focus on three main readings that thought me a lot about how people are affected by different situations depending on their race, gender or sexuality. The first reading is “The Problem That has No Name”, it was very surprising to me to read about how women decided to give up everything to become good wives. The next reading is called “Why Gender Equality Stalled”, this article made by The New York Times magazine demonstrate how the people in the United States changed their opinion about the roles of women and men inside the household, but can not do much because of the limited options jobs offer. The last reading is “Dangerous intersections”, in this reading I learned that when gender is linked to race it become harder for that person to get the support it needs. These readings are very interesting to me because even though they are not addressing the same problem, they all are interconnected by the same reason: women’s struggle to reach equality within society.

Feminism is a global movement focused on obtaining equality between the sexes. Feminists believe there to be a hierarchal gap between the sexes, with men being viewed as more substantial than women. According to an article in Independent, “the pay gap between male and female salaries in the UK is 20%.” (Musaddique, S. (2017, October 16) Gender pay gap: UK women are now working ‘for free’ for the rest of the year. Independent). Feminists are working to achieve equality, not only in an economic sense but also politically and socially.

Gender Men and women can definitely work together and support each other to make the society better.

Who has not heard about “Gender Equality”? Among the mushrooming current issues or topics, there is always demand for open spaces. Actually, it is really a good thing and also a kind of proof that shows a particular result after a period of time, the way of considering something, or opinions of people nowadays become more and more open-minded, willing to consider ideas and opinions that are new or different to be their own. Even, most of the time, you may see that something that is being in discussed, for instance, current affairs, and “Gender Equality” is one among them, seems forcefully, in a way that shows do not expect to be refused. Gender equality is the main means of sex which communicates an