Category: Gender Inequality/Gender Discrimination

Introduction ‘Gender equality not only liberates women but also men from prescribed gender stereotypes’ /Emma Watson/. Today everyone is labelled based on their gender or what they identify as. As soon as you meet someone you begin to judge them based on their gender without even knowing anything about them. I believe that gender stereotyping…

Race, gender and class are socially constructed ideologies that shape the experience of individuals. The first social hierarchy is racial oppression which focuses on a specific race with cruel restraints. This social form of oppression includes mistreatment or exploitation which is socially supported. The second social oppression is class oppression which involves the discrimination based…

Bad Mentality Most people still think that women are too weak to play sports. One example is from a WNBA player; Elena Delle Donne who stated It is hard to fall in love with a sport or team or a player if you have never seen them and do not know much about them ……

In ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ written by prestigious feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman, after the birth of her baby, our nameless narrator suffers from postpartum depression and is forced by her dominant doctor’s husband, John, to weeks of bed rest. While in the confines of bed, the narrator starts a rapid descent into madness and becomes…

The social cultural factor of focus will be gender ideologies in society, including the participation in physical activity and sport. Due to the negative connotations and judgments with women and girls participating in sport or being physically active, there is a low number compared to boys and men. The reasons as to why there is…

This all started from the beginning of the 19th Century when the United States began taking in immigrants fleeing from Europe due to the devastation of World War I. During this time Carl C. Brighama professor of psychology at Princeton University published A Study of American Intelligence (1923) in which he emphasized that the decline…

The place of women in society and their struggle over the centuries for getting gender equality has been in the spotlight of history. Victorian womens lives were differed significantly by its uniqueness, and during the entire 19th century with the womens movement they managed to sign crucial achievements in the history of whole feminism. The…

Prior to World War II women were often restrained to domestics, laundresses, secretaries, and dishwashers, or did not work at all. There were very limited opportunities for them to excel in the professional sphere, for at the time, their work was not vital to the success of the United States. It was not until World…

It is unlikely that the gender inequality will ever come to end at the workplace. Regardless of culture, historical context, or social circumstance, men and women view the world – and often each other – through gender-specific lenses (Tannen, 1990). Women are always criticized in their work despite of them being perfect or neat. Trends…

Introduction The gender inequality is always a significant issue worldwide from past to present. According to the report Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics by Catherine, H., & Christianne. C., & Andresse St.R.(2010), the authors presents in-depth yet accessible descriptions of eight key research findings that point to environmental and social…