Gender Norms And Stereotypes Strengthen Gender Inequality

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“We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination”. Nelson Mandela.
Gender inequality is not continued exclusively through difference access to and control over material resources. Gender norms and stereotypes strengthen gendered identities and make the behaviour of women and men in ways that lead to inequality. (Gender inequality).The shift of gender relations meanwhile the beginning of the (20th) century is one of the fastest, reflective social changes in human history. For the more than 7,000 years of human history since established agriculture and early states emerged, male domination has characterized the gender relationships of these societies

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