Gender Inequality During World War I

Ultimately, the saddest part of a society with gender inequality is that the cycle just keeps going on due to the many interrelated factors involved, confining us in the battle for egalitarianism. One of which is of course the spread of knowledge, women continuously have to suffer from epistemic injustice because through out history, their ideas have been doubted. In an environment where a woman’s ideas is not valued enough, they start to doubt themselves and eventually degrade themselves. This results in gender inequality, which is something that is difficult to fix because the women themselves are forced to think that their social position is below the men. The unfortunate truth is that this is how it has always been, and women have no reflection of histories to look back on for the solutions to this issue. In our modern …show more content…
What happened because of this is that we as users lack in the knowledge with emphasis on women. An example is the page about Pat Barker, a prominent figure in psychological novels who based her writings in the era of World War I; she has gotten less credit than Niko Bellic, a character in the game Grand Theft Auto IV. How less you ask? The writer only had a mere three paragraphs written about her while the fictional character had an article about five times as long. Imagine the increasingly huge number of people in this world that uses Wikipedia, and think what would happen if the things that are learning about only focus on males? Psychologically, this would make women think less of themselves, cognitively, their brain would be programmed to prioritize more on “male” things because of the repetitions of information with the same emphasis, and sociologically, this would further push us back into the world of gender inequality, causing conflicts such as