The topic of gender inequality has been around for quite some time and many laws have been passed for women to reach their idea of what equality is. Gender discrimination is usually affiliated with women, but in recent years men have encountered this problem and quite frankly are baffled about it. The source of this problem comes from the employers who frequently cut workers and applicants from working due to their gender. Lately gender inequality isn’t just a one-way street, it goes both ways and today’s generation should come together to put an end to this non-ending war of sexual characteristics.
There are two aspects of how gender operates as a status characteristic. Firstly, the diffuse status belief that characterize men as more competent and agentic than women. These beliefs are going down the drain as women’s academic achievements continue to overtake that of men. Women continue to take new roles in the workplace, taking over what once was male-dominated, in greater numbers than previous generations. This makes it difficult to maintain the status belief in male superiority across the board. Secondly, the beliefs that work done by male are inherently higher status. Till the day that tasks aren’t gender typed and that male tasks continue to be more highly valued, gender inequality and its reproduction …show more content…
With gender discrimination being around since the beginning of recorded time, it’ll be a difficult and moving into a gender equality world many would consider the transition to be taboo. In “Claiming an Education,” Adrienne Rich states that “…books pretending to describe a ‘human’ reality that does not include over one-half the human species.” (Rich 609). This refers to the fact that, even the bible uses man to refer to humans. To move past the gender inequality thinking, humans must overcome the thinking of today and right the thinking of
There are two aspects of how gender operates as a status characteristic. Firstly, the diffuse status belief that characterize men as more competent and agentic than women. These beliefs are going down the drain as women’s academic achievements continue to overtake that of men. Women continue to take new roles in the workplace, taking over what once was male-dominated, in greater numbers than previous generations. This makes it difficult to maintain the status belief in male superiority across the board. Secondly, the beliefs that work done by male are inherently higher status. Till the day that tasks aren’t gender typed and that male tasks continue to be more highly valued, gender inequality and its reproduction …show more content…
With gender discrimination being around since the beginning of recorded time, it’ll be a difficult and moving into a gender equality world many would consider the transition to be taboo. In “Claiming an Education,” Adrienne Rich states that “…books pretending to describe a ‘human’ reality that does not include over one-half the human species.” (Rich 609). This refers to the fact that, even the bible uses man to refer to humans. To move past the gender inequality thinking, humans must overcome the thinking of today and right the thinking of