Essays on Gender Equality

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 movement and its contributing sentiments, the modern definition of feminism holds a negative connotation and often persuades individuals to act out of ignorance and disregard the practicality of such ...

What is a role? A role is a function that a person plays in a certain place or situation. So, what role do I represent, or what role do I perform? Where do I start? Because I am a woman, daughter, mother, a wife, and they all represent gender roles. And am also a student (cultural role). Not to mention that I am also a friend, a volunteer, and a next-door neighbor that I can go to talk just about anything (social role). Women in today’s society are an example of intelligence and strength, ...

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 a very time, women were thought to be better suited for household work, sexual pleasure of men, raising children many assumed that women cannot stand on an equal footing with men. Everyone believed these misconceptions to be true due to ...

For decades, women have strived to achieve equal equality with man. In today's modern age, many women are protesting about their fundamental human rights. Caitlin Moran, an English journalist and author, has defined feminism as 'imply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat receding, lazy and smug they might be' (Caitlin Moran). In the short story Lamb to the Slaughter, written by British novelist Roald Dahl, the author addresses the ...

Respecting a human being is morality. But why are other individuals only respecting gender, but not being fair? Like other individuals, only females are respected, but not all human beings. We all know that males can reign supreme over women. And when it came from gender fair treatment, we should respect every individual and significantly change our viewpoint because we are born equal. Because God created us in completely different ways. Equity is a fair-minded. It implies that all genders are ...

Through the efforts of feminists advocating for equal rights and legislation a provision called Title IX was put into the 1972 Education Amendments drafted by U.S. Representative Patsy Mink. Congress passed the bill saying 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 under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance” (20 U.S.C. §1681a). As a result of ...

Over the past century, feminism has manifested worldwide to advocate for equal political, legal, and social rights between women and men. The movement has been divided into four waves, separated by decades and major influencing events within our society. Judy Brady, a large influencer within the second wave of feminism, became a staple for her time period after the publishing of her essay titled I Want a Wife. The essay, which shocked readers, challenged stereotypically female roles within the ...

In April 2018 Michelle Wolf hosted the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, an event championing the right to freedom of speech. Jokes were made at expense of the sitting administration, in particular, about the lack of facts often presented by Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The internet erupted into controversy, with many calling out Wolf on her blatant attack on a woman in power and calling her remarks “unfeminist”. Wolf responded in an interview with “-because I’m a woman, I ...

Gender equality is a matter of human rights, democracy, and justice. Women being equal to men leads to social development, economic growth, and creates a positive change in the society. Women and Men should receive equal treatment in their jobs, and should not be discriminated against based on gender. Democracy and gender equality should go hand in hand together specifically in our modern days, where the rule of law and human rights are more respected and implemented, by the International ...

“Remember then; there is only one time that is important- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power”, Leo Tolstoy admonishes in one of his classics, ‘What Men Live By’. In a world where it takes only a few seconds for minor problems to turn into global conflicts, this quote points out incredibly more than what is understood at the first glance; demonstrating the cruciality of interfering with a certain dispute in the quickest way possible. In the ...

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 is necessary to indicate the succession of activities to be followed in the writing for the best order and easiest intelligence of the object and purpose of the dissertation, (1) in a first moment the next ...

"For Renaissance artists, painting was perhaps an instrument of knowledge but it was also an instrument of possession, and we must not forget, when we are dealing with Renaissance painting, that it was only possible because of the immense fortunes which were being amassed in Florence and elsewhere, and that rich Italian merchants looked upon painters as agents, who allowed them to confirm their possession of all that was beautiful and desirable in the world." John Berger in his "Ways of ...

The image of what a feminist woman looks like that is conjured up when mentioning feminism is oftentimes a crazed, bra-burning, man-hater rejecting the systematic structure known as the patriarchy. Perhaps some people picture a mid-century homemaker complaining that her only occupational choices are to become a secretary, or maybe a teacher. However, this view of who we picture as a feminist isn't necessarily the case. Since the internet became more popular in the early 90’s, feminism has ...

In the essay “Why Violent Video Games Are Good for Girls” student Carmen Tieu attempts to prove that violent video games boost confidence in women, going further to communicate the idea of socialization disparities between men and women. The renowned debate of the true effects violent video games have on society usually compare two variables, the gaming population as a whole, against those who do not game at all. Tieu contrarily focusses on the female gaming population, claiming that by ...

Growing awareness towards raising and maintaining gender equality is one of the most debatable and evocative topics, countries particularly developed ones practice for the last decades. Nevertheless, there are still a lot of controversies in response to alteration of people’s attitudes to women’s role in public sphere and largely in private sphere. That was one of the pivotal reasons I have started to investigate the ways women’s view of gender equality and their behavior in domestic sphere ...