Examples Of Gender Inequality In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Gender and race inequalities
Social inequality is seen in today’s world and in the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Social inequality is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards based on social position and has an effect in the book. In the book social inequality has a role such as gender and race that the characters run into and in reality social inequality has a role too. Gender and race have such a vast effect on the book that we wonder why do we still have racism and segregation in today’s world, and yes we still have racism and segregation today.
When we get into the book, social inequality has an effect when dealing with race. Race as in Caucasian, African American Asian..Etc. An example of social inequality when dealing

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