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.

Gender Equality means that women and men enjoy the same status and have equal opportunity to realize their full human rights and potential to contribute to national, political, economic, social and cultural development, and to benefit from the results.

Gender equality means fairness of treatment for women and men according to their perspective needs. Gender equality between men and women entails the idea that all individuals, both men, and women,

What is equality? What is gender? And what is gender equality? Gender equality is a view that men and women should have equal rights or opportunities and not be favored against based on their gender. However, gender has played an important part in the society since the beginning of time. If we look back throughout history, society has placed a serious expectation of what women and men should be like. The debate of gender equality in the society has always been a controversial and divisive topic. Some believe that gender equality is possible, while some likely disagree with it because they think that men are still superior to women no matter what. One of the many things the society can do to combat the belief that men are superior to women is providing higher education for men and women. Education would lead to opportunities, opportunities lead to gender equality, and gender equality leads to a productive society.

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.

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 today’s society, we often see many state that one specific gender has more advantages and privileges than that of its respective counterpart. However, this is simply not the case.The issue that is in question is gender equality. This is a social issue has been addressed in both logical/philosophical literature and mass media sources. You see, there’s this preconceived notion that the male gender has more benefits and advantages than the female gender. However, this is simply not true at all, as both genders, male and female, equally have the same opportunities to pursue whatever it is that they like. Stereotypically, women are known as the ones to stay home, cook, and clean, while the men are out working. However, times are changing. The outlook on women are also changing. Due to the rise and superiority of social media in the 21st century, women and girls worldwide have been given a new uplifting voice that has never been seen before. Despite this new voice, there are cases of gender disparities in various occupations and industries.

Do you know how it feels to have a strong determination to pursue your life goal, but you also have to deal with the laborious consequences such as gender equality? According to Zig Ziglar, “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals”. A girl named Hope Jahren lived in a poor place where women and men were not treated equally. Many people argued on how women couldn't be things like men such as a doctor, engineer, or scientist, for instance eSTEM school has more men than women because it's an engineering school, traditionally girls are not encouraged to work as an engineer they mostly focus on language arts and performance. No woman should be underestimated of what they can do. The book Lab Girl shows that Hope Jahren story is based on equality. Hope wants to show people that men and women should be treated equally and disproves stereotypes by succeeding without money, overcoming bias hardships and completing labs that are usually done by men. She is like any ordinary teen with big hopes, Will she succeed in proving people by having her dream come true?

Gender equality means that men and women enjoy the same rights as everyone. Then why are woman’s own body sometimes not even there’s. Everyone should believe in gender equality, doesn’t matter what race, gender, etc. I myself is a strong believer in gender equality I do believe that women should have every right to do anything with their body without being judged or harmed. Historically, there is three important facts underlined a woman’s ability to make choices with regards to her body’s authority of birth control, freedom of social expression, and personal security have shaped a woman’s global perspective.

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

The social, political, and economical equality of all people regardless of sex, race, or class; this concept has been at the core of the feminist effort since its beginning, although particularly in this current third wave of feminism. In this time of working to create an environment acceptance and equality for all people has caused the current generation of feminists to create new distinctions and boxes into which people can identify. One of the newest, most controversial, and arguably most important is the difference between sex, which is determined on a biological basis, and gender, a socially constructed idea. In a society where masculinity and heterosexuality are not only the norm but expected when it comes to positions of power and success it is imperative that the expression of gender can be viewed separately from the person’s biological sex. In doing this, the idea of the “one woman and one man” archetype is dismantled and a position of power, opportunity, and equality can be give be given to all people not just those who fit into the narrow boxes of the heteropatriarchy. This idealistic way of life can only be achieved if we are able to understand the nuances of what gender is and its infinite forms of expression.

Centuries after another and now the present, the twenty-first century still faces a huge issue towards the acceptance on 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 successful story was shared on her essay where she stated encouraging aspects of how women should be. Such as, leaning in to 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 on the workforce due to their race and social class. Hooks points out a very legitimate fact because she actually look at different types of women while Sandberg might not be able to relate to that

The best things in life take hard work, persistence, and most of all, time. This is very evident in the fight for gender equality in soviet Russia. The patriarch was the societal norm and was never really questioned, that is until women realized their potential and qualification to be every bit as entitled as men. Tsarist Russia did not address the issue with a solution; however, communism brought about new ideas and ultimately many solutions to achieve gender equality. Although the equality between men and women was not perfect, women had much more control over their lives while under Communist rule in Russia than in Tsarist Russia because they were given more opportunities in the workplace, more domestic rights, and more of a say in their political rights.

Title IX was passed by congress in 1972. When discussing Title IX, most people will refer to gender equality in athletics and sports. Although this does apply to state funded athletics and sports, this is only one of the ten areas that are addressed by the law. The following ten key areas fall under the amendment: Access to higher education, athletics, career education, education for pregnant and parenting students, employment, learning environment, math and science, sexual harassment, standardized testing, and technology. The intent of the law is to allow for gender equality across the board by prohibiting any discrimination on the basis of sex. Prior to the law being passed, women in the 1970’s were excluded from many opportunities. Colleges and universities set a quota for the admission of women and access to scholarships. They needed earlier curfews, denied tenure, and had more restrictive rules overall. The response to these concerns was the development of Title IX.

For many years now, the question of gender equality has been one of the most controversial issues in several societies. Different regions have put the effort in ensuring women get as equal chances as their counterpart gender, whereas some of the areas in the world have completely shunned the issue. Back then, women were considered property and were not allowed equal rights as men especially when it comes to education, job opportunities among several other issues. The United States has put in place various policies that enable females to have equal opportunities as men. The country has tried to make an effort to ensure equality of resources and opportunities regardless of one’s gender. Nonetheless, most areas have not fully embraced the fact that men and women are equal. In fact, some bosses disqualify applicants of jobs on the basis of gender. To date, women are still discriminated against on several issues. This discussion entails a few examples of discrimination against women. With each problem, it shall attempt to provide a solution to each problem.