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.

Why should your gender determine how to live your life? Throughout my whole existence, I’ve been told to act and dress like a “girl” by most of my family. I never understood why it was such a huge deal, until I was much older. Gender expectations are still around today and they still continue to be affect the way men and women are treated. A man that acts within his own gender role is praised, but a woman is forced to stay in a certain limit within her role. Men and women shouldn't let their gender define themselves and it should not pressure them to live up to a certain standard created by society.

As a child I never really knew much about gender roles and stereotypes, I just went with it. As I grew older I was forced to face reality and deal with the gender roles and stereotypes. I wasn’t a masculine kid and always had feminine features and attributes. I never liked playing rough, I didn’t like to get in trouble or cuss. This resulted in me being teased and called gay in elementary school. I had to fake a persona in order to not be bullied and teased everyday. The bullying and teasing came from the viewing of stereotypes at a young age in my peers homes life. For girls it’s the opposite, if they enjoy playing rough, getting in trouble or cursing they’re called tomboys. From a young age as well it’s evident that we’re given these

The degree to which women enjoy their rights vary from culture to culture. Over a period of time, women around the world have gained greater freedom of choice in their respective societies. The factors that may affect the freedom a woman can get in a certain society may depend on factors such as education, literacy rates and overall mindsets and norms that prevail in a certain society. However, there is a similar stance in both developed and developing societies alike that can be clearly observed when it comes to the topic of Abortion. Both the categories of the societies have seemed to confiscate a woman's liberty of killing or keeping her fetus.

Women in the world still face discrimination and gender equality takes action to achieve women’s rights. AAUW provides and gives women the chance to have an education, while Catalyst reaches out to women to carry out equal pay, equal participation in the workplace, and remove discrimination. UN Women attains to human rights for women. Throughout history women have fought for gender equality in the workplace and in education, and every year organizations like AAUW, Catalyst, and UN Women have gotten closer to balancing equality.

Is it accurate to state that the struggle for gender equality in Europe was successful during the twentieth century?

Feminism historically has only gazed upon the topic of equality in their activism and debate. Often time 's, western feminists themselves do not contemplate how they are privileged in the fact that they are able to and allowed to, advocate for equality for women. Internationally, this is not the case. Rather women are fighting just to be included and seen in the eyes of men on stages that culturally they have never been before. In politics, globally women are fighting for their faces to be the ones that are seen as politicians, not men who do not see women 's issues on the same level as other issues. In the economy, women are working towards holding higher positions and breaking the glass ceiling that holds them back as well as breaking

Women are one-half of the world population they deserve equal opportunity as men because at the end gender equality is part of humanity progress. Many women around the world are treated less favoured than men not only in countries that have traditional gender role but even in societies that believe in equal right for both male and female. Gender inequality means unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. It results from differences in socially constructed gender roles. Inequality is an issue that has a negative effect on both the individual and society. This essay will outline some of the issues that women face in different societies devoted and devolving like inequality in education, work and violence and it will also highlight some of women rights that able the women to have more power (world Economic Forum, 2014).

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.

Throughout history, gender differences and gender equality have been issues that have faced many social, and unjustifiable conflicts. Women most importantly pay the consequences for wanting equality and justice. Since the beginning of time, women were perceived to be the submissive role in a household, and in the workplace. Fighting for their equal rights women and men are unified to get the same results, to be treated the way they deserve, and to be able to think freely about what they stand for. One question still remains, and that is to what end have man and women fought for gender inequality?

Historically, women have always been seen as the subordinate gender. Considered weaker, more emotional, and less intelligent or capable than their male counterparts, women have been trying for decades to overcome adversity and get to a point where they can be taken seriously in a patriarchal world. Though progress has been made, there is still a long way to go until true gender equality is established.

Hillary Clinton once said, “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. Let us not forget among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.” Ignorance from men and women, both, are not making the chances of gender equality higher. Gender equality is not women fighting men and bringing them down and neither is feminism, it’s to give both men and women equal amount of rights, freedom, and the ability to do what they want without someone making a rude comment. The issue of men discouraging women is wrong and should be addressed. Many, are still living in the past, and when they grew up women were only house-wives that took care of the house and did the chores.

“You can’t do that because you're a girl”. When I was younger gender inequality would start with these certain statements that corrupted ladies and brought down their confidence into supposing they couldn't do certain things, since it was seen as a men's activity or wasn't sufficiently ladylike. Now that this is a worldwide issue our a nation has decided to pass a law were women and men are treated fairly in having equal opportunities, responsibilities and are equal regardless of their sex. This however is not the case, in society they discriminate and permit women and men to be equivalent to one another. It has been a problem for centuries all over the world.

In different cultures across the world there has been an imbalance between the roles of men and women in society. Gender equality has been a recurring issue dating back to the start of civilization. Women, in particular, have had a difficult time being treated with the same respect and privileges as men. In society today, gender equality as become less of an issue because women have fought hard to get to where they are. Starting from early civilization, men have held the power within government and society, while women have been seen as housewives. This can be seen through many literary works, which tells a great deal about the time in which the work was written. Many writers represent the time period they live in through the ideas in their works. In “Assemblywomen”, Aristophanes reveals that in that time period, the role women played in society was that of a typical housewife. They were deemed as the people who should be taking care of house duties and the men were the ones who were in charge of the government. In “Vagabond” the author, Colette, shows the struggles that women faced trying to live on their own in a society where the men have been the ultimate breadwinners. Through Plato’s “The Republic”, he shows a different viewpoint on the role that women should play in society.

What is gender equality & inequality? An easy question to answer really. Gender equality means that both men & women have the same opportunities & rights, but gender inequality is different. Gender inequality is when men & women don’t have the same opportunities or rights. Back in Ancient Egypt/Greek & 1960s society, there was gender inequality. Ancient Egypt & Greek society, women were just seen as object, made to be slaves. They were only used for cooking, cleaning, farming, etc. In the 1960s, it was the same. Women were still seen as objects and had to take care of their husbands & children. They had no time to go to school or for themselves. In modern times, we’ve had a breakthrough. Women were free to go to school & marry whoever