Gender Equality Between Men And Women

The article titled "Girls Against Boys," published in the 30 January issue of The Nation magazine by author Katha Pollitt, brings to light pressing issues of gender discrimination and how this nation's education system has changed over the past forty years but still isn't up to par with where it needs to be with issues of gender equality. Pollitt exposes the views of conservatives toward feminism in the school systems of today. This article describes how changes in society are taking place, and what the future may hold for men and women in the world of employment and education.

In this day and age it’s all about feminism and how women are in second place. When in fact, the feminist views are misguiding and causing a huge impact on the education systems that favors girls rather than boys. In “The War Against Boys,” Christina Hoff Sommers supports her belief that it’s the boys who need help, since their underachievement is worsening and continuing by the year.

Throughout the readings, a major theme that kept reoccurring was the idea of gender inequality. Gender inequality is an issue that is still happening today, but it’s now

Gender equality in schools has been a controversial issue over the years. In these two articles, "The Daily Grind: Lessons in the Hidden Curriculum" of Peggy Orenstein, and "Boys Here, Girls There: Sure, if Equality's the Goal" of Karen Stabiner, both writers give an in-depth reality into the contentious issues that exist between boys and girls. Although they bear some superficial similarities in discussing gender parity problem in education, the differences between Orenstein and Stabiner are the target audience, the rhetorical choices, and their opinion on the gender equality issue.

There is change concerning perspective on gender inequalities in schools. I In and article written by Diane Reay, called “Nice Girls” “Girlies,” and “Tomboys”: Gender Discourses, Girls’ Cultures and Femininities in the Primary Classroom, explains that contemporary gender power relations within an elementary classroom, is more complicated than “girls versus boys”. Reay found that girls were split into identifiable groups, each group defining how feminine they were or weren’t. She concluded that gender either operates as oppositions or hierarchy or most commonly both at the same time. These studies can lead us into why later on in life, during the time we are looking for jobs and professional work, men and women are seen on different playing fields. When you think of a CEO of a company or of world political leaders, does a male or female come to mind? Many, if not most of us, see these positions as being held by men. Even though we are approaching the twenty-first century, women in our society are still not equal to men when it comes down to the professional world. This discrimination in the workplace results in women not receiving the same benefits that men do. In certain cases women do the same job, for the same amount of hours, and still do not receive the same pay for their work. The average women’s paycheck is usually less than the average man, consistent with any field of work. Is there a

Women worked tirelessly to challenge misogyny in education. The formation of ‘women's studies’ introduced women to disciplines like language, philosophy, psychology, and history and opened doors for female STEM majors (Encyclopedia). Women campaigned for educational reforms throughout education careers, and demanded changes in curricula and teaching forces to ensure that women were getting the same education as men. Some changes include home economics and survival courses not being gendered courses and the same curriculum for physical education classes. These changes in the education system made sexism in the new generations less common, a significant change from the previous generation.

Susan B. Anthony was head of the girls department at Canajoharie Academy in 1846. She understood the differences in the education that women were receiving versus the men. In 1859 Susan B. Anthony spoke at Teachers convention in Troy, New York and Massachusetts calling for Coed schools. Her main argument was “There is no difference between the minds of men and women” (Tuckman, 2010) In 1900 Susan B. Anthony won admittance for women at Rochester University by raising $50,000 in pledge money which include the cash value of her life insurance policy (University of Rochester, 2012). This significant social change is the reason I have the opportunity to go to this University and write this

Over the past couple of decades’ girls have begun to surpass boys in academics. Girls have higher high school and college graduation rates, enrollment in Advance Placement (AP) classes, selected for valedictorians and salutatorians, and there are more female applicants being accepted to professional programs, such as physicians and surgeons and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Throughout history, men had access to better education than women. The educating of women was deemed unnecessary by parents, elders, educators, and other members of the community. The traditional role for women consisted of homemaking and child rearing, neither required any type of formal education. Clearly, skills to support these traditional roles were important and often acquired from the more senior women of the extended family and the

Women need to be looked to differently; they have found, over the years, ways to get past the obstacles of inequality, and strengthen and support themselves through the very adversity that would have kept them weak. It is therefore not just a matter of gender equality but rather something that can be learned from the gender differences.

Women’s role in the struggle for equal rights has also influenced positive effects on the construction of sexism, classism, and racism by using power and determination. Women that are portrayed in all three of the pieces are able to address the problems by coming forward and standing up for their gender because they all believed that their rights meant just as much as a man in society.

The issue of gender equality reaches the point where the inequality affects the most basic human rights. “Women are entitled to live with dignity and with freedom from want and from fear.” (www.unfpa.org/gender-equality) Students must realize that to change how society views women, students are the ones that need to move towards imporving gender equality. Not only does female misrepresentation affect students future lives but also their current ones. Women remain oppressed in the workplace, in

The goal of providing better education for women does not mean abandon or suppressing men. By placing men and women on an equal level, the relatively increased valuing of women will also benefit men by telling them the strengths, capabilities and contributions of members of the opposite sex. It may also decrease the pressure many boys feel to respect the traditional roles, behaviors and ways of thinking. Eventually, the stereotypes may prevent and eliminated, so education will be more gender balanced.

It has revolved into the idea of showing dominance over women, stating “Who’s important?” I’ve never learned anything about women until this class. I have teachers told me ‘Women have done nothing important on our history” And I believe Claiming an Education by Adrienne Rich shows a great representation of this. Towards the middle of the article, she” we learn how men have perceived and organized their experience- You are hearing about what men have decided is important” (rich 19). Already, you see since the beginning of time women weren’t talked in the terms of the human population, the only importance they had was barring children. However the effect of this brought a new branch of learning specifically for women. Rich “Women students began to demand a women studies courses- to claim women directed education” (Rich 20). Obviously, this was a benefit, but despite all these course, society hasn’t changed its ways of thinking. Generally speaking, inequality has not only impacted women emotionally, but mentally.

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.

Elizabeth further then went to describe that “in our current population, HeForShe is about moving the 3.2 million men, one man at a time, across that line, so that ultimately, men can stand alongside women and be on the right side of history, making gender equality a reality in the 21st century”. (TED) Now in order to direct her language to the right audience, Elizabeth must choose the level of language that best suits her audience and who her target audience is. Since she’s presenting her vision and advocating for change to both men and women, with a variety of intellectual levels, we can see that Elizabeth uses a transparent language that the audience has a whole can engage and learn from.