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    GENDER INEQUALITY IN INDIAN SOCIETY AND ROLE OF WOMEN’S EDUCATION IN REMOVING GENDER INEQUALITY Abstract If we look in to the history, since ages women have been experiencing discrimination, viewed as less than fully human, considered as inferior brains, suffered a lot due to a lack of legal rights and with very little independence. Gender is a function of power relationship between men and women where men are considered superior to women in Indian society. Traditionally women are considered as

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    Gender Inequality in Latin American Culture Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold details how Latin American culture lead to the murder of the character Santiago Nasar caused by a series of events. Marquez’s depiction of the patriarchal society in the novel reveals the role of men and women. In particular, family, men and women expectations, honor, and sex portrayed in the novel are further utilized to reveal the inequalities between both groups. Consequently, Marquez recounts the

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    After the war, women were able to have more political power, and equal education for men and women was promoted (Goodkind, Rising Gender Inequality). One author describes how after all the struggles that women have gone through, they can finally be confident that they will soon arrive at their liberation (Ibid). The Marriage and Family Law of 1986 gave women more rights, regarding areas like equal share in their property, and the welfare (UNHCR). These steps were headed in the direction of equality

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    Analyze, and reflect in terms of ideologies that dictate the role to be fulfilled by men and women in society, creating gender inequalities in the exercise. Now it seems that the struggle for a new human identity from the biological fact, is reaching, however, what is really difficult is to be able to act and be seen as human beings with equal chance of development and freedom for both women and men. While it builds the structure and culture around sexual difference of individuals that form in every

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    academia, gender may contribute to one’s treatment in secondary and tertiary erudition. Gender plays a role in the inequality between women and men in the educational field resulting in wage gaps, sexual harassment, and underrepresentation. Others claim that these conditions are not based on gender, but on the individual’s circumstances. Throughout this research, women and men alike can grasp a more understanding approach to the differences in treatment in academe. Because inequality results in

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    think social institutions have different influence and shape gender inequality depending on where you live and where you're from. Such as in Africa they have high discrimination in social institutions, due to how their government is run. There they believe that men have the power and women are the “weak ones” who need to stay home and cook and care for their children. Even for a women to give birth to a daughter in other countries is looked down upon they want to have a son so that he can take over

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    outmoded belief that a man, because of his role in society, should be paid more than a woman even though his duties are the same” (Karr 81). Socially constructed gender roles have led to gender inequality throughout society, but sex-based discrimination is most prevalent in the workplace. During the Civil Rights Movement, gender inequality was targeted with a number of movements that promoted equality, including the Equal Pay Act of 1963. This Act requires equal pay for equal work, which calls attention

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    101 December 9, 2015 Gender Inequality What are the types of gender inequality in this world? Inequality is when there are two things that are not the same. For example, antonyms, they are when two objects don 't have similar qualities. This means there are differences between the two. It can be beneficial or very discriminating. The definition for gender inequality is the unequal treatment, or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. Gender inequality is between the male and

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    Gender Inequality and its Relationship with Sexual Dysfunction Drugs Susan Elwood Monmouth University Abstract This paper looks to discuss and expand on a news article and two other published articles which report on the lack of Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a sildenafil drug or “female Viagra”. The articles remain constant in the description of what this drug would provide for women. However, they differ in describing the reasons why a drug has not been approved so

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    bigger and better things that most girls during that time period couldn’t. Sheryl also goes to talk about how till this day there’s still gender inequality. In the United States and even in other countries we are still living with gender inequality in many different form like in the family, the workplace, and even when it comes to education. Gender inequality tend to occur in the family. Many people may not pay attention to this but it happens all the time. Back in the days during the early 1900s

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