Gender Equality Essay

Who Wears the Pants? Clothing has long been a medium used to dictate and define gender throughout history. What women wear has often been regulated by the government or the church. Women started wearing pants during World War II when they were aiding in the war effort by working jobs that were typically male dominated. Though women more regularly wore pants, they were still thought of as masculine attire as shown in the Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie the Riveter” painting, scrutinizing women for…

Feminism is a social movement campaigning for the equality of the genders that officially began sometime during the twentieth century. The men and women who introduced these ideas separately into the world before they were combined into the movement are referred to as proto-feminists. In today’s world feminism has grown exponentially all around the world, and continues to fight gender inequality and the globally established patriarchy. Due to the extreme actions of certain women who misuse the…

In Gender Theorist Judith Lorber’s article, “From Believing is Seeing: Biology as Ideology,”( 1992) and Linguist Deborah Tannen’s essay, “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently,”(1990) Tannen focuses on the difference in language usage between males, and females in the classroom. Tannen also delves into the limiting qualities of a masculinized debate based environment. In contrast Lorber focuses on revealing gender stereotypes in society, and how these stereotypes limit women in…

Woman” speech, the audience was able to capture Truth’s intended message most effectively through the third interpretation. While the texts are merely recreations and alterations of the original versions, we are still able to capture her message of equality with her hopeful and direct tone. The third essay has the strongest language and rhetorical strategy in order to make it the most effective of the three with a more personal touch, and was the most effective in conveying her message with her…

transgenders to go to the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity. Transgender refers to a person who identifies with a gender identity different from the one at birth. This issue has strike a huge controversy between the LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexual, and transgender) community and the rest of the people because of fear, prejudice, and equality. Advocates claim that transgenders should use restrooms that correlates with their gender identity. This means a transgender female, a male…

Although the words sex and gender are often used interchangeably, they have two different meanings from a sociological perspective. Sex is a biological characteristic that determines whether someone is a male or a female (Carter 2011). Gender, however, is socially constructed based on definitions as to what is “masculine” or “feminine” (Carter 2011). This paper delves into the social forces that can influence gender in any culture. Social forces include anything that is a part of the social…

Feminism is the advocacy of women 's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. This is an important belief for me as we are all human, and therefore all equal. Although feminism is the belief and practice of gender equality, it is frequently considered to be ‘all inclusive’. This includes the erasal of gender role stereotypes, bias, and double standards. It also includes equal pay, the right of bodily autonomy, and other equal rights movements. Feminism is often…

Claudia Godin, a Harvard professor, research has shown that in the financial services women earn 66 percent of the earnings of their male counterparts. For part time employees, the gender pay gap is -5.5%, that is to say women working part-time are paid more than their male equivalents on average” (“Closing the Gender Pay Gap”). To alleviate this problem further, there has been multiple arguments upon this subject, such as to give flexible work hours for working mothers, fathers/husbands should…

feminism as “the view that biology is not destiny, that stratification by gender is wrong and should be resisted, and that men and women should be equal --- met with strong opposition, both by mean who had privilege to lose and by women who accepted their status as morally correct (Henslin, 2014, p.302). The definition of feminism in the dictionary is much simpler stating it is the theory of political, economical, and social equality of the sexes. There are three phases of feminism and we are…

Stereotypes are learned through direct observation from the culture around us and enter our consciousness. In our society talks out loud about egalitarianism, equality and justice as our own values, but at the same time such equality exists only as an ideal. There is still a great unconscious level of prejudice in our society that effect of racial, gender micro-aggression. The overtly biased expresses through our expressions, stance, verbal and nonverbal communication, and eye contact we make.…