Gender Equality

As a country, we have come a long way to reaching equality between women and males. During the 19 centuries women fought for their right to vote. When talking about gender, there are a lot issues that continue to be present until this day. Women had to fight for equality during the 19 century which lead up women in today’s society to have a voice. Despite of all the improvement close to gender equality, society still expect particular things from females and males.

This remarkable achievement for women has enabled them to accomplish more in every aspect of their life.

In present day it is easy for a person to take for granted what comes so simple to them. Women have not always been in the position in which they are seen as equals to men. In the course of the last decade, women have evolved as human beings through revolutions in the 1920’s, 1960’s and modern day era.

Throughout every society’s history, there has been a prevalent inequality between the females and males of that population. Women have been considered slaves or property belonging to men; thus they have been viewed as second-class citizens and intellectual inferior. Most prominent is the idea that a women’s purpose in life was to remain in the domestic sphere. This meant their interactions and occupations within the public sphere was severely limited. This preconceived bias towards women’s only job to be a wife remained constant through centuries although the degrees of pressure on women varied. As decades progressed into the late 1800s to present time, a women’s occupational world had a chance grow outside their domestic sphere. Although

Women’s roles have changed drastically over the past 100 years. Women are no longer the stay at home moms in aprons, cooking, cleaning, and raising a family. Women have ventured from the jobs deemed as acceptable for them, such as secretaries, teachers, and nurses. Today, women are doctors, lawyers, CEO’s of big corporation, and even government officials. Woman have achieved a great deal, but there is still more to be done until gender equality is achieved.

First, women must come together to push for our rights. The rallies that happened on International Women’s Day showed that there is still gender inequality. Women and men should be represented equally in the work force. The rallies stirred some officials to look in the perspective of woman. Next, women should be encouraged to pursue occupations that most men control. Women shouldn’t feel like their limited to nannies or maid occupations.

Women and men have had certain roles in society that were understood amongst them to be specified for their particular gender. Males were known to have the leading role as head of the house hold and the bread winner while the woman’s duty was to stay at home and take care of the house and children. While many people years ago deemed this way of life and practice to be the right and ethical thing to do, times have changed and so this kind of treatment towards a woman’s equality must be questioned. Even though times have changed, this mindset of a woman’s ability to be as good as a man has not completely gone away. In today’s society a woman contributes to the economy and her family as equally as that of a man. Therefore, women should share equal rights and opportunities as their gender counterparts.

It is sad, but true that many women in the world still do not have the opportunity to achieve any position of importance in a society. A woman is characterized by housekeeping, making food and taking care of the children. Her position is at home, unlike the men. The men are known as protectors to their families by going to work. Their responsibilities are to make sure the family has food, clothes and other needs. Many countries have come far with the importance of equality, but there are more left that haven’t. The fight for women rights is still relevant.

It is worth mentioning that the world is full of different women who may take the higher and the superior positions in the society such as president, judge and head of the company. It is notable that women may manage to do a lot of tasks in life today. Moreover, women can neglect can overlook the effective role of the women in the society in order to develop and improve the society effectively and

As the empowerment and the unceasing push for equal status for women has become widely popular and successful only in recent history. Women have stepped out of their traditional roles of the housewife, the mother and the complying doormat to more assertive natures. Many contentious issues surround women’s

The modern world has resulted in earnings, wages and salaries for the women similar to that of men, but the women are continuously facing inequalities in the work force (Andal 2002). This can be attributed to the pre-established notion that women shall not be given access to finance or communication with the world outside of the home which is highly unethical and unfair (Eisenhower, 2002). In the past, they were considered as the underprivileged ones which were not thought of having equal rights but this fact has changed now. For instance, the status of women can be explicitly defined as the equality and the freedom of the women.

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 the last century, women have had to fight to have the same opportunities as men. Women have had to earn the right to vote, the right to have a career, and the right to autonomy. However, these are all rights that men have simply been given, which is why today’s feminists work to promote equality. Despite these efforts, feminism is often misunderstood and is interpreted with a negative connotation. According to a study conducted by Precopio and Ramsey (2017), “feminism is commonly recognized as a movement driven to grant social, political, and economic equality to both women and men.” The participation of others besides women is crucial to the spread of equality among the genders. Furthermore, the stigma and negative feelings surrounding feminism must be reduced in order for the ideals of feminism to have a greater impact.

Gender equality fails to achieve and global gender gap is widening these days. Generally speaking, the index 2017 shows an increase in gender disparity and the world remains gender gap of 32% in four dimension economic participation, education, health and politics (The Global Gender Report 2017). In my opinion, historical and religion factors, weak implementation of law and lack of political empowerment contribute to the failure of achieving gender equality. Gender equality means that men and women enjoy equal right in social life and the same status in marriage and family, and it does not require women to become the same as men, but it ensures the equality of opportunities, resources and rewards for men and women. In the past, men were often called as “breadwinner” and women were “homemaker”. We have to admit the fact that there is a biological difference between men and women and women are physically weaker than men, but that does not mean that men are superior to women. Because of so many reasons that block the pathway for women to obtain rights of equality, most people will assume that gender equality is not achievable.

The oppression of women is based on false assumption and preconceived notions by the male domination world, has been obvious and responsible for paving the way for serious gender issues to emerge. Due to the narrow realms of activity in society, deprived from essential human rights, restricted educations scope, open to unhealthy physical and mental abuse, this society has not given women the opportunity to rise to their full potential. The impact of gender discrimination has not only affected the future of the women today but it has resulted in the slow progress of human mind in general.