The Causation of Gender Dissimilarity
Gender inequality is amid everybody in any given part of the world. Although the victims of gender inequality are primarily women, a sizable amount of men are in a similar boat to women. Throughout the decades, women have been fighting tenaciously to be equal to men. Due to their efforts, the prevalence of gender inequality has decreased remarkably in many societies, especially in the modern ones. Women throughout the world have taken action to change women’s status in society; however, who is responsible for implementing the change? Why are the genders are separated and treated differently? Humans are naturally separated into two different sexes for reproduction, and reproduction is the main goal of all …show more content…
In some societies, men’s bad behaviors were not frowned on. According to Virginia Woolf, the author of “Shakespeare’s Sister,” “Wife- beating [. . .] was a recognized right of man, and was practiced without shame by high as well as low” (Woolf 693). Most people in a society have different roles, and these roles come with different rights. For example, law enforcement has the rights to injure or kill people and judges have the rights to condemn a person to death. Unfortunately, gender separation is a byproduct of these distinctions. According to Margaret Mead, society needs these distinctions because “a sacrifice of distinctions in sex-personality may mean a sacrifice in [societal] complexity” (Mead 715). Society would fail or may not advance if everybody is playing the same role. Although gender separation seems negative superficially, it plays a major role in the society since society needs these distinctions to have people working together on different things, which is the one of the basic principles of a …show more content…
There are a numerous amount of different culture around the world. If one asks about the difference between a boy and a girl, people from different culture would have different answers to the question. Culture plays an important in the separation and treatment of gender because humans act upon their beliefs. For example, women in Virginia Woolf’s “Shakespeare’s Sister” came from a culture that believes “nothing could be expected of women intellectually” (Woolf 702), therefore the people from that culture do not allow them to make decisions for themselves, be educated, take leadership positions. Similarly, mothers from Germaine Greer’s culture believes that “boy babies a hungrier and as better feeders than girls,” therefore they were “fed more often and for longer at a time than female babies” (Greer 730). The genders from different culture are not only treated differently, but also dressed differently. For example, “women wear long hair and men wear short hair, or men wear curls and women shave their heads; women wear skirts and men wear trousers, or women wear trousers, and men wear skirts” (Mead 712). Men and women appear different from each other in most cultures in order to separate the two genders. Even in our popular culture, there are distinctions between male and female. As evident by cultural beliefs’ effect on treatment and separation of the genders, it is safe to conclude that culture
Gender inequality is amid everybody in any given part of the world. Although the victims of gender inequality are primarily women, a sizable amount of men are in a similar boat to women. Throughout the decades, women have been fighting tenaciously to be equal to men. Due to their efforts, the prevalence of gender inequality has decreased remarkably in many societies, especially in the modern ones. Women throughout the world have taken action to change women’s status in society; however, who is responsible for implementing the change? Why are the genders are separated and treated differently? Humans are naturally separated into two different sexes for reproduction, and reproduction is the main goal of all …show more content…
In some societies, men’s bad behaviors were not frowned on. According to Virginia Woolf, the author of “Shakespeare’s Sister,” “Wife- beating [. . .] was a recognized right of man, and was practiced without shame by high as well as low” (Woolf 693). Most people in a society have different roles, and these roles come with different rights. For example, law enforcement has the rights to injure or kill people and judges have the rights to condemn a person to death. Unfortunately, gender separation is a byproduct of these distinctions. According to Margaret Mead, society needs these distinctions because “a sacrifice of distinctions in sex-personality may mean a sacrifice in [societal] complexity” (Mead 715). Society would fail or may not advance if everybody is playing the same role. Although gender separation seems negative superficially, it plays a major role in the society since society needs these distinctions to have people working together on different things, which is the one of the basic principles of a …show more content…
There are a numerous amount of different culture around the world. If one asks about the difference between a boy and a girl, people from different culture would have different answers to the question. Culture plays an important in the separation and treatment of gender because humans act upon their beliefs. For example, women in Virginia Woolf’s “Shakespeare’s Sister” came from a culture that believes “nothing could be expected of women intellectually” (Woolf 702), therefore the people from that culture do not allow them to make decisions for themselves, be educated, take leadership positions. Similarly, mothers from Germaine Greer’s culture believes that “boy babies a hungrier and as better feeders than girls,” therefore they were “fed more often and for longer at a time than female babies” (Greer 730). The genders from different culture are not only treated differently, but also dressed differently. For example, “women wear long hair and men wear short hair, or men wear curls and women shave their heads; women wear skirts and men wear trousers, or women wear trousers, and men wear skirts” (Mead 712). Men and women appear different from each other in most cultures in order to separate the two genders. Even in our popular culture, there are distinctions between male and female. As evident by cultural beliefs’ effect on treatment and separation of the genders, it is safe to conclude that culture