What is equality? What is gender? And what is gender equality?
Gender has played an important part in the society since the beginning of time. If we look back throughout history, society has placed a serious expectation of what woman and man should be like.
The term has been defined in various ways that it sort of lose its meaning along the way. The debate of women’s equality in the society is a controversial and divisive topic
In the book The Second Sex, Simone De Beauvoir discusses the struggles that she has to go through as a woman and her criticism about the divided gender in the society. She talks about the facts, myths, and thoughts on those matters.
The world has always belonged to men since the beginning of time. “Women’s entire …show more content…
She criticizes all the wrong things that have written about a woman and her education during the time period. There are plenty of opinions on how men and women should act, how young women should behave, and women appearances and education. One example from the book is the differences in how boys and girls act in from a young age, such as girls like to play dolls while boys like play outside. Wollstonecraft also argued that the reason why this is the case is because parents tell their sons to play outside and be boys while they tell their daughters to play inside with her dolls. Another example from the book is how Dr. Gregory instructs his daughter to be nothing but a pleasing object for men. Dr. Gregory advises his daughter and women to hide their knowledge/intelligence because she should not know more than a man. However, Wollstonecraft responds that a woman should become as smart as possible and she should not has to hide it from the world. One thing to achieve that is having education because she believes that education is the tools that will help a woman gain the respect from a man and turn her into a valuable and productive member of …show more content…
There are several evidences that not investing in girls’ education is an inefficient economic choice, but that is not all, to a further extent gender inequality in education is dreadful for growth for countries at lower middle income status and above. Societies would have to experience a slower economic growth or market failures when there is gender inequality presence itself. There is strong evidence that suggests when a per capita income increases it leads to a more gender equality, ‘a convex relationship between income and female achievement’ ( pg 15). To a greater extent, gender inequality can be explained with religious preference, regional factors, and civil freedom. Supporting girls’ education is a win-win situation where it may raise a country’s income and make everyone better off, however it would lower benefit to those who have a cultural preference for gender inequality. For example, a benchmark called OLS estimates demonstrate that high women attainment is identified with good civil liberties and the Protestant religions while low achievement is correlated with the Hindu and Muslim religions. Female education is the greatest investment one to do that would raise income nationally significantly and improve gender equality, not only in education
Gender has played an important part in the society since the beginning of time. If we look back throughout history, society has placed a serious expectation of what woman and man should be like.
The term has been defined in various ways that it sort of lose its meaning along the way. The debate of women’s equality in the society is a controversial and divisive topic
In the book The Second Sex, Simone De Beauvoir discusses the struggles that she has to go through as a woman and her criticism about the divided gender in the society. She talks about the facts, myths, and thoughts on those matters.
The world has always belonged to men since the beginning of time. “Women’s entire …show more content…
She criticizes all the wrong things that have written about a woman and her education during the time period. There are plenty of opinions on how men and women should act, how young women should behave, and women appearances and education. One example from the book is the differences in how boys and girls act in from a young age, such as girls like to play dolls while boys like play outside. Wollstonecraft also argued that the reason why this is the case is because parents tell their sons to play outside and be boys while they tell their daughters to play inside with her dolls. Another example from the book is how Dr. Gregory instructs his daughter to be nothing but a pleasing object for men. Dr. Gregory advises his daughter and women to hide their knowledge/intelligence because she should not know more than a man. However, Wollstonecraft responds that a woman should become as smart as possible and she should not has to hide it from the world. One thing to achieve that is having education because she believes that education is the tools that will help a woman gain the respect from a man and turn her into a valuable and productive member of …show more content…
There are several evidences that not investing in girls’ education is an inefficient economic choice, but that is not all, to a further extent gender inequality in education is dreadful for growth for countries at lower middle income status and above. Societies would have to experience a slower economic growth or market failures when there is gender inequality presence itself. There is strong evidence that suggests when a per capita income increases it leads to a more gender equality, ‘a convex relationship between income and female achievement’ ( pg 15). To a greater extent, gender inequality can be explained with religious preference, regional factors, and civil freedom. Supporting girls’ education is a win-win situation where it may raise a country’s income and make everyone better off, however it would lower benefit to those who have a cultural preference for gender inequality. For example, a benchmark called OLS estimates demonstrate that high women attainment is identified with good civil liberties and the Protestant religions while low achievement is correlated with the Hindu and Muslim religions. Female education is the greatest investment one to do that would raise income nationally significantly and improve gender equality, not only in education