Gender Equality : Equality And 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.

Discussions about gender and race equality are a big part of our daily lives; however, the fact that this is even a discussion might be a problem in itself. Woman or man, black, white or yellow, were words conjured up by scientists to classify species just as german shepherd and poodle were. They were not meant to be used as a way to label people in society, with regards to who they are or what they do. 

Labels and categories were meant for food, utensils, and lab settings, not for people in society. So why is it that from a young age we are taught that there is a separate bathroom for men and women, that most guys are attracted to girls and girls to guys, that blue is for boys and pink is for girls, that anyone that has a different shaped

The fight women’s rights and equality has been an ongoing theme throughout history. Much like racism, sexism limits a person based on a physicality they cannot control. Its uncivilized and brings a huge uproar and controversy in its path. For years there has been groups and protests to change the course of sexism and change it for the better. Admittedly, it has improved, but as a society we are far from equality.

Equality is an enormous topic when it comes to our society and it has been for a long time. Today everything is a lot more equal between race and economic classes but it is still a concern today. The main topic about male and female equality is such a major subject it is one of the most talked about social issues in America, and in the past few years more than ever.

According to human rights, each and every one must be treated equally. However, in a society, inequality can be witnessed in several ways, for example, discrimination in terms of gender, caste, creed, race, ethnicity, and religion. Equality basically implies provision or access to all the opportunities prevailing in a society. In fact, equality laws and regulations are formulated to safeguard every individual from getting discriminated in various social settings. For example, one can become a victim of inequality in his or her workplace. Equal rights are extremely crucial to provide equal opportunities. The same is based on nothing but the legal obligations that the commoners must comply with. Equality also helps to protect people from getting discriminated on group membership grounds. It is often argued that laws and regulations in any genre mostly help in promoting national unity. Under equality laws, all human beings are equal. Human beings possess inherent dignity and therefore deserve just and equal treatment. One gender or race should not get the privilege to consider superior over other race or gender. Race, skin color or a gender cannot completely define an individual. Even in 21st century, society still portrays inequality amongst human beings in different genres.

Gender equality has been a well-discussed issue in recent years. By some people, women are not treated on the same level as men because of preconceived stereotypes and gender roles. However, others have been fighting tirelessly to increase the amount of people who treat women and men equally. Although women are treated more fairly with regards to men today than in the 1950’s, there are still many discrepancies between the sexes. One main concern is that the amount of men and women going into science, technology, engineering, and math, STEM, majors and occupations is disproportionate, with the larger amount of entrants being male. Despite the hard work of feminists, women are not pursuing STEM careers because of stereotypes and a specific idea of their gender role, both of which females are exposed to from a young age throughout adulthood.

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.

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” A small yet powerful quote stated by Maya Angelou demonstrates the small amount of equality that exists between men and women in today’s society. Being such a controversial matter that has been debated time after time, gender discrimination and double standards between men and women exist and we need to act. For as long as those can remember, society has always pushed specific roles targeted to both men and women holding high expectations for each. Studies show that many have struggled to achieve the goal of illustrating that men and women are indeed equal; although, biologically women cannot do as much as men.

Women during WWII were confused about their roles in the war. There were two common attitudes women in the 1940’s had towards the war. On one hand women felt inspired to rise to the challenge and fill the void left by men. On the other hand, some women felt, “cheated,” and unable to carry on due to the absence of men. Even though most women agree that gender equality and equal opportunity is positive, women who lived through WWII would most likely argue that it is not always worth the sacrifice.

One of the newer issues that are facing schools today is accommodating transgender students. The Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972 states: “Prohibition against discrimination; exceptions. No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance…” This is talking about gender equality in schools. This means that a school cannot treat transgender students differently than other students of the same gender identity. If you were born as a female but identify as a male then you must treated the same as a male student. You must allow equal access to education, programs, and activities for all students including transgender students.

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.

Gender equality, also known as sex equality or equality of the genders, is the view that men and women should receive equal treatment, and should not be discriminated against based on gender. For years, it’s been notably held that women have been given far less freedom than men. For example, having to do with sexual expression. If a woman is too sexually active, too daring, too “freaky” in the sack, she gets labeled a slut. In contrast, men have been praised for their sexual prowess, “high-fived for wantonness,” accorded “player” status for acting like big shots. That goes for most comparisons towards a man. Men are brought up to think that the way to prove their masculinity isby material means. We do a much greater damage to girlsbecause we raise them to think that it’s their obligation to cater to the fragile egos of male mainly having to do with what their male counterparts would think of them. We’re teaching girls to dumb themselves down for the approval of a man. To make themselves less than what they are. We say to girls: you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, to be somebody. Not too successful that you will threaten the man’s ego. If you are the one who brings in the most money in the household in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him. As if women weren’t capable to take care of themselves.

Throughout many decades women have been fighting for gender equality, both at home and in work place. Women have to suffering in unequal treatment in their life and struggling to be equal to men. Gender equality is really important in our society. People born equally but the society continues to push the tender roles. The gender discrimination becomes more and more common in our life but this needs to stop. People should respected each other with no matter what gender they are and gender equality is a more and more serious problem for people to redefined.

Between 1923 and 1972, when the Equal Rights passed you would believe that Gender Equality would end. It was passed in 35 states. General Equality has been going on for years. Everything would make everything so much easier if it was Equal for both a men and a women. Where it’s at home, at work, or even at school. Why does one gender have to be better than another? ‘’Achieving Gender equality in education means that boys and girls will have equal opportunities to realize their full human rights and contribute to and benefit from economic, social, cultural, and political development.’’ Our generation can benefit so much. But it if they can benefit why is this only happening in 35 states instead of all over the world. The biggest Gender Equality problem has to do with education. A person’s education shouldn’t be determine because of their Gender. Both a man and a women can have the same passion for education for wanting to be someone and go somewhere in life. In Pakistan a women doesn’t have the equal right to go to school and learn? This isn’t just happening in Pakistan, it’s passing in many other places. Now why does this affect a women more than it a man? And that’s because in Pakistan a women doesn’t have the same right in education as a man does. But why not do something about it. Providing a quality, education leads to improved enrollment and retention but also helps to ensure that boys and girls are able to fully realize the benefits of education.