Gender Equality

Up until the early 1900’s, women were seen by society as people with household roles that consisted of cooking, cleaning, and tending their children. As time progressed, the view of women in society gradually changed, but their opinions still did not seem to matter. It wasn’t until 1920, that women gained suffrage with the 19th amendment. This amendment was a huge step in gaining full and equal rights for women, but unfortunately discrimination against them still happens today. There are various different situations in which the issue of gender inequality occurs. Although the law states that everyone has equal opportunities and rights, women are highly discriminated against in everyday roles such as employment, extracurricular activities, military, and in the government.

Women have virtually the same rights as men. However, the fault needing to be recognized in today’s society is the way that women are treated. Even in simple areas, such as jobs, women are put on the back burner. A woman is able to become a CEO of a company, nonetheless, she will struggle twice as hard as a man would. Even as an employee, women are statistically paid less than men are.

So today both men and women have the same working rights. This force of women is a good example of girls in education now wanting to work hard so they can get good, well paid jobs just like boys can. Girls have been encouraged to see their future in terms of having paid work, rather than just housewives with no part-time job on the side. However, there are obvious examples of men still having an authority over women. Most head teachers of schools today are male and the actual subject/year teachers tend to be female with less male teachers. An Equal Pay Act was introduced in 1970 making it illegal to pay women less than men and in 1975 the Sex Discrimination Act was introduced in 1975, which outlaws sex discrimination in the world of work. Since 1975, the pay gap has decreased from 30% to only 17%, but there is still a gap. There has also been an increase in the percentage of women in employment from 47%, in 1959, to over 70% in 2007. Due to women being mothers, the growth of the service sector and flexible part-time jobs has opened up plenty of opportunities for women to work. Yet traditional men’s jobs have declined. Margaret Prosser says that “in the last 30 years since the Equal Pay Act there have been many changes in women’s economic participation and achievement… and accessing training and jobs which previous generations would not have considered open to women.”

Women have had a rough way to go for many years when it comes to equality. They face many negative things in today’s society and that is the way it has been for many years. History shows that women have been fighting for equality for decades, because many people believe they just can’t do the things that men can. There’s a website that has been helping women fight for that equality since 1966. That website is www.now.org. Before then women never really had any help. They had to rely on each other to show everyone what they could really do. Women have fought to try and end discrimination when it comes to jobs and economic justice. So the status of women throughout history has changed,

Sadly, women have been recognized as the inferior sex since the beginning of the time, and yet, their roles haven’t change too much. It used to be usual for a woman to be unemployed and, according to The Library of Congress webpage, in the early 1900s, women who tried to get a job or join the suffragette movement were less respected. Some of today’s women take up the traditional female role of being a housewife and being general helpers to their husbands. Despite women having jobs nowadays society is still naming professions that many think upon as feminine roles, for example, secretaries and nurses.

For centuries the concept of gender and equality have been issues and talking points. Attitudes toward women have gradually softened and changed for the better as they are viewed as being equal with men. Women throughout history have been referred to as housewives, and factory girls. They weren’t able to gain the respect from men until they took a stance against inequality, also known as women’s suffrage. “I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand”, stated Susan B Anthony. Many factors have contributed to the rise of the status of women throughout the history of the United States. These factors include education, income status, and political contributions.

Women have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities throughout history. Their most significant professions were wifehood, taking care of the husband and making him happy, and motherhood, taking care of the children and of the

Throughout history, we can see that humans have developed quickly in almost all fields including advancements politically, scientifically, and morally. However, one of the greatest advancement, which to this day has not been fully achieved by humanity as a whole, is the equality between the two genders. Since the beginning of civilization, we come to see that all societies with an exception of a few, were mainly male dominated. Men were always seen as superior to women. Men were not just seen as the head of the household, but they were seen as the leaders and organizers of all political, social, and economic affairs for both men and women. However, as time progressed, so did women. Gradually, women were more involved in the work force due to many factors including wars and primarily due to the industrial revolution. Women took the role of nurses and hospitality workers during wars, and as the industrial revolution initiated, they began to work in factories for low pay. During the last half of the 20th century, women’s rights, referring to the social and human rights of women, became a very highly emphasized and recognized issue especially in the United States. By the 1960’s the role of women completely transformed. Women more than ever before, began to enter the paid work force, participated in protests demanding equal rights, and established organizations such as the National Organization for Women. Overtime, these feminist trends of the 1960’s that continued for the

This point is relevant because “ Before the civil war women were expected to stay home and take care of domestic duties”. But during the nineteenth century this idea couldn't be pursued due to the inability to afford staying at home”. So it became a necessity that women also worked. “ Public education for women had a slow development but as it came along private institutions taught women”. Women taught themselves how to read and write because they usually had to stay at home and cook.Women attended clubs and that’s where they learned how to read. women tried to apply for jobs to support their families, But many of them were turned down because they did not have the education needed for the job. One job that became popular for women was teaching, Due to this demand women needed to be well educated so that they could be able to teach the future generation’s. “Throughout the many efforts towards achieving equal rights with men, Women had trouble being taken seriously since they have always been viewed as weaker and less intelligent to men”. Based on scientific research studies have shown “ Once women started demanding equal rights, Their IQ scores which had lagged slightly behind men’s for decades not only caught up with men’s, They surpassed them”. One point is that “ In society at large, The women’s rights movement has brought about measurable changes, Too. In 1972, 62% of men and women said they would not vote for a woman for president”. In this year's election there were a lot of debates on voting for Hillary Clinton just because she’s a women. Also many women were triggered by the horrific message when Donald Trump stated his opinion against women. Most feminist felt that they were being discriminated against because Hillary Clinton lost the debate. In conclusion a lot of things drastically changed such as

During the 1980’s I saw during my research that from the 1900’s to about 1985 ladies' share of professional jobs increased from about forty- four to forty- nine percent and their share of "administration" jobs nearly doubled, increasing from twenty to thirty-six percent. This showed me that after a while, nearly twenty years later, business owners and even the society took the role of our women seriously and started to employ them. The working ladies steadily started to not be attacked based on gender, therefore gender discrimination slowly started to ward off as a thing in the past. During the 1980’s ladies learned to deal with anything that was thrown at them. I am sure that this was proven to be fruitful as women took their jobs very seriously.

Sexism has been prevalent in our society for generations. It has plagued the views and outlooks on gender, and has molded the populace’s minds to favor one over the other. Engrained within society is the strict framework of binary gender roles, and placing males and females into distinct and rigid categories that they can rarely break free from. While progress has been made with regards to weakening these rigid and unfair gender roles, the prejudice views that run rampant through the minds of the older generations, and into the up-and-coming ones, are difficult to combat. Women are often overlooked and regarded as the inferior gender, and they are often portrayed as individuals who are at men’s every beck and call. This is highlighted through the observations of Paula Rothenberg in her novel Invisible Privilege, she discusses her observations and dealings first hand with prejudice of all kinds. The book recalls her experiences from the mid to late 20th century, which was a time of more blatant sexism, but I will be using other sources in addition to prove that sexism is still a prevalent issue in everyday life. The sources I will pull from in addition to the novel include, “Different but Equal? Inequalities in the workplace, the Nature Based Narrative, and the Title VII prohibition on the Masculinization of the ‘Ideal Workers,’” an academic article by Kristin Housh, which uses statistical information to argue that women are treated differently in the workplace. Secondly, “Gender Bias in Education,” an op-ed by Amanda Chapman, which discusses unequal treatment of women in education, in addition to a visual and song lyrics that also support these arguments. Sexism and unequal treatment of women in the workplace and education is still a problem in society today that needs to be changed.

Over the course of history, gender inequalities have been a prevalent issue amongst countries around the world. The notion, women are inferior to men has shaped their treatment in all aspects of life. Women were subjected to a patriarchal role in society, the men worked and women took care of domestics to some degree greater or lesser depending the country they resided in. In the late 19th and early 20th century women started rising up against male dominated societies in feminist movements. These movements were campaigns and reform plans to combat issues of equal pay, sexual violence, and denial of suffrage, reproductive rights, equal job opportunities and property rights. Thus observing women in Great Britain and Saudi Arabia today one can see how the role women play in society has dramatically changed from 1800s till now.

There was a time in our not so long ago pass when women were seen as second class citizens. There were certain privileges that were afforded to others that were limited to women. For a very long time in our history women were not allowed to vote, participate in our work force or even afforded the same pay as men. Some will contend that we no longer live in that type of society and our civilization has transcended those barbaric ideologies. However, others will maintain that even though some progress has been made in terms of the equality for women there are still underlying factors that are institutionalized to oppress 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.