Analysis Of Gender Inequality In Missoula By Jon Krakauer

In Missoula by Jon Krakauer, with the heavy presence of the community adoration for the local football team and the sexual-assault crisis that ensued, gender inequality is a significant problem that mainly affects young women in this community. The young women in Missoula, Montana face inequalities in the ways females are seen as biologically different than males and thus inferior to males, the ways in which they were socialized as a female compared to how males are socialized in the community, and the ways their claims of sexual-assault are perceived by the community and police department. The gender inequality present throughout Missoula and in the town Missoula reflects a community and a society displeased with and untrusting of females, resulting in the treatment of females as lesser than males and no sense of protection or concern for these seemingly non-worthy women.
Men view females as inherently unequal and inferior due to their biological differences and believe that these biological …show more content…
By being female, numerous inequalities are presented to you because of your gender, but in Missoula, three in particular are seen: inequalities from being biologically different, inequalities from being socialized differently, and inequalities from being viewed as more or less truthful, thus resulting in claims of sexual-assault being perceived for a female as false compared to the male’s account of the events. These gender inequalities result in a harder time for females in the criminal justice system and a harder time for females in their everyday lives because they are viewed as inferior, possessing no human qualities, and not worthy of concern, thus often resulting in their victimization, typically in the form of