Gender Inequality : A Critical Issue That Affects Women 's Rights

In this short video and article on the topic of gendercide, reporter Elizabeth Vargas travels to India to found out from the people of India personally why there is such a shortage of females. She discovered that although aborting a fetus of a female child is illegal because of the shortage of females, families still continue to abort them because they don't want the burden that the baby girls brings. Vargas also discovered that illegal sex determination clinics can be found just about on every street. Men and their families also the wives to have sex determination tests and abort the baby if it’s female.

In society these days there is a noticeable difference in the treatment of men and women, the most common examples would be found in the social, business and culturally convention realms. These ways of life have double standards in many different ways. There are many ways to convey the ways of discrimination towards women by men.

There are hundreds and thousands of athletes all around the world but the main problem in the athlete world is gender inequality, women are not shown equal as men. They are discriminated in many ways such as pay, employment opportunities, value of women 's sport, media coverage etc. Despite the federal law passed called Title IX that “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." there is still gender inequality women are considered less than men. No matter what happens people will always have inequality against men and women because of the environment they live in and how they were raised. Women are

Imagine a world with no women. There as no wives, no sisters, no daughters, and no mothers. Unfortunately this world is on the brink of becoming a scary reality for Asian countries such as China and India. Due to attempts to control population and the low value associated with females in these societies historically and culturally, both China and India are now facing a serious gender imbalance. Female infanticide and sex-selective abortion are responsible for this gender imbalance. The two atrocious practices have led to problems such as elevated rates in female kidnapping and slave trade, as well as forced marriages. This paper will focus on the roots of female infanticide and sex-selective abortions as well as the problems these

Gender inequality plays a critical role when it comes to social progress. As a woman,

In the Eastern world, where boys are more heavily desired than girls, sex-selection is seen as a family’s perfect opportunity to have a boy. Unfortunately, with or without the availability of sex-selection in these areas, sexism remains a major problem. When many couples realize they are having a girl they will often malnourish or neglect the baby, as well as kill them through infanticide. Therefore, sex-selection in this region can prevent young girls from a life of abuse or negligence. The availability of sex-selection is not the problem in this area, but rather it is the lack of education that is preventing gender equality. Currently, there is a significant gap in the male to female ratio in Eastern countries. Of the entire Chinese population aged fourteen and younger, there are 1.16 boys for every girl, while in India there are 1.13 boys for every girl (CIA). Feminist movements, similar to the ones in the Western world in the 20th Century, need to take place in these areas. Additionally, women should be encouraged to participate in traditional male roles to show that they have just as much value as anyone

In many parts of the world, women are given all the guaranteed freedoms, rights and privileges that men have. But unfortunately there are many other countries in the world where women are routinely killed, subjugated and oppressed. However, the oppression of women takes different forms depending on which part of the world a person is in. But perhaps the most widespread form of oppression against women is the deprivation and denial of healthcare. For example with China’s (recently repudiated) one child policy, female fetuses are far more aborted than male ones, because boys

In the world today, there are also many countries that consider women to be in a lower social class than men. In fact, on January 22 last year, the Indian Times released this statement: “A kangaroo court last Sunday decided that the victim be raped by 10 men as she had committed a crime by having an affair outside the community. The tribal heads had found that the sin of the 20-year-old can be only undone if she gets raped by 10 tribal men.” Gender inequality is not just seen in India, but also around the world. They are denied any power or any string that ties them to being a valued human life. In Saudi Arabia, women are denied a driver's license. In China, female babies are being killed because of the “one-child” policy and their preference

“In India pre-natal sex selection and infanticide accounted for the pre-natal termination and death of half a million girls per year over the last 20 years. In the Republic of Korea, 30 percent of pregnancies identified as female fetuses were terminated. Contrastingly, over 90 percent of pregnancies identified as male fetuses resulted in normal birth. According to China's 2000 census, the ratio of newborn girls to boys was 100:119. The biological standard is 100:103.3” (Scott, 1-3) All around the world, women are persecuted and seen as the weaker sex. Female life is not respected in some places on earth, instead seen as useless. Around the world, girls today experience many of the same problems their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Women can’t vote in several countries around the world or make basic choices without their husbands. Education, limited in hundreds of countries, leaves girls once again under

The controversy surrounding gender inequality has been ever present. However, the definition and understanding of gender inequality appear to have changed over time as it became increasingly recognised that is a serious social problem that affects a significant proportion our society. According to Hirby (2016) gender inequality, is sometimes called sex discrimination, which means receiving unequal treatment based solely on gender. Women are believed to be greatest victims of gender inequality in the workplace. Despite decades of reform, statistics suggest that for every dollar a man earns a woman in a similar job earns just 77 cents (Hirby, 2016). This suggests that there are still improvements to be made.

There are countless injustices experienced by people throughout the world today, but one in particular that stands out is women’s rights. In a few places such as China and India, parents are willing to kill their daughters at birth since it is more honorable for a family to have a son. This is more commonly known as infanticide, which is an extremely unjust way to treat women. Another example of females not having equal rights to men arises in the South African country, Lesotho. Women encounter a problem when attempting to acquire large sums of land; whereas, men can simply buy whatever their money can purchase. My final third world example emerges in the middle eastern country, Saudi Arabia. One of the lesser injustices faced by women is their

Female infanticide has been accepted for centuries in many countries, and is more prominent in India and China than in any other countries around the world. It is illegal in India, however it is reported by Unicef that up to 50 million girls and women are “missing” in India as a result of systemic sex discrimination.

In the article “Gendercide” (2010), the author sheds light on the somewhat unheard of mass amounts of neglected, aborted and killed young girls. In a lot of countries couples prefer to have boys instead of girls because they believe men are more resourceful than women. This applies to many countries such as Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and, along with one of the worsts, China. In China specifically, the one child law influences parents decisions to abort, kill, and neglect their baby girls because parents would rather have a “strapping young boy,” than a “helpless little girl”. I personally think that this is disgusting. People should not be able to take a child's life away for simply being a female. Women are equally as capable of carrying

Gendercide affects nearly every family in India and China due to the preference of sons over daughters (It’s A Girl). Male privilege is a prominent reason for the disappearance of millions of girls. Peggy McIntosh states in her article on male privilege that “men have unearned advantages... [and] that unearned privilege has not been good for… societies development, or that privilege systems might ever be challenged and changed” (87). It is because of this male privilege phenomena that mothers are forced to choose between their desire to nurture their new baby which is a part of their natural mothering instinct or ending the suffering of their daughter before it begins (CITATION FOR MOTHERING SECTION). If this continues to

Gender inequality is a grave issue throughout the history of time. However, black women have gotten the shorter end of the stick, and Marita Bonner addresses this issue in her essay, “On Being Young – a Woman – and Colored.” Bonner believes that time will heal the disjunction between men and women, and more specifically the ignorance of black women’s presence in society. This essay proves that Bonner’s solution – allow time to heal – is pragmatic and history proves that it worked.