Essays on Gender Equality

The era of the first wave of feminism was a time when women got important political and civil rights for the first time in Canada. Women at the time were at pains to develop strategies that would best accomplish the task of winning those rights….

We cannot run away from the fact that gender inequality is still the major issue even in the democratic society we are still experiencing it. South Africa is not the only country that is experiencing gender inequality but the globe at large, because even the…

Written in the late eighteenth century, the statement “All men are equal” originally set the tone for societal standards by acknowledging that the human race, specifically its differences between sexes were to be grounded by a uniform identity. However, despite the longevity of the feminist…

Human rights campaign is known as the almost every member of the LGBT. The human rights campaign is the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans. The human rights campaign represents a force of more than…

Affirmative action programmes “do not create new jobs, but addresses how existing jobs should be distributed” , meaning transferring benefits from one group to another – hence the redistribution problem. While opponents of affirmative action such as Thomas Sowell believe that the damage done by…

Introduction Feminism can be traced back to seventeenth century (Minitz, Close and Croci 2018, 77) with a common goal to achieve equality among both the sexes and this movement slowly spread all around the world with many different voices being raised time after time. From…

In the structuring of any research work it is necessary to establish a knowledge structure, which will be followed during the investigation, this will be in two moments; General Structure and Specific Structure. General structure; specifying the orientation of the content of the work, it…

In the Elizabethan Era, the people of the time valued and held a patriarchal society. In this type of society, women had a lower ranking compared to men and were held to authority and control by men. Gender equality is a primary and central issue…

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” ― Gloria Steinem Sexism, in a layman’s words, is prejudice or discrimination based on a person’s gender. Unfortunately, it is spread quite vividly amongst today’s generation; whether it is on…

Has anyone heard of Emmeline Pankhurst? Emmeline was born in Manchester, UK in 1858. She was the daughter of very forward thinking parents for their time, Robert and Sophia Goulden. Briefly, Emmeline was highly instrumental in forming the UK’s Suffragette Movement and in doing so…