Essays on Gender Equality

For a long time, women have been not be recognized, and this has led to them raising their voices to make their grievances addressed. Women did not have the right to vote and were denied the powers. They used to live in a world dominated…

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…

“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…

Burning of the Bra The establishment of the United States as a country was a result of counter-hegemony, defined as a resistance against existing status quo in order to effect changes in social and political norms. Throughout the course of American history, similar counter-hegemonic movements…

By definition, equality is the innate sameness of two things. What happens then, when two things that are inherently and undeniably different strive for equality? In the past 60 years, women across the globe- most notably in America- have fought for and received a number…