...Gender Inequality 1 Gender Inequality KeJuan Barnes Rasmussen College Gender inequality is the imbalance between the position of men and women in our structured societies, and/or cultures. The first aspect that I would like to touch on, which I also believe is one of the more important topics, is the role that men and women play in education. This wasn’t touched on in the book, but I’m speaking from personal experience. Being that I’m a male pre-school teacher in the field of Early Childhood Education, gender inequality is seen highly. When you look at a teacher (role model) working with young pre-school kids, a lot of people expect the teacher to be a female, not male. People tend to associate pre-school teachers as “delicate” and “nurturing”. These are traits that women are naturally labeled with, so people assume female. Having read the book, I’m starting to think differently now. Is this job supposed to be that of a woman’s job because it’s labeled as less prestigious, whereas a principal’s job is more prestigious and held by mostly men? Also, it stated in the book that men make more money annually, hourly, and are given a higher raise percentage. This is all because society paints the picture that men and women are not equal. I believe it stems from physical aspects as well. Men are supposed to be bigger and stronger, and supposedly smarter, whereas women are supposed to be gentle, sensitive, and nurturing. It seems...
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...The topic of pay inequality between men and women in the UK has been of much interest. It has been known that men usually get paid more than women even though they both do the same job and have the same qualifications. Although there is no real justification as to why men get paid more, sociological and political factors play a part in allowing men to get paid more. According to The Telegraph ‘Women in full-time employment earn 15.7% less than men - which adds up to a pay difference of £5,200 a year between the genders.’. This illustrates that despite policies and Acts being introduced to protect the rights of men and women, men still get paid more. An exploration as to why this occurs will be discussed. The definition of inequality according to Wikipedia is ‘the condition of being unequal whether that is socially or economically’. Is it acceptable for a woman who is equally educated and experienced, if not more than a man, to get paid less for working the same hours and job role? The Telegraph also states ‘One in four women working full-time earns less than the living wage, compared to one in six men.’ Why is that women, who are often mothers, have to work the same hours as a man but get paid less? I believe sociological factors play an integral role in this as men are perceived as breadwinners and thus validates them being paid more as an ideological norm. It is often a taboo subject and society looks down upon women who are breadwinners for her family because in a ‘man’s...
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...Gender Inequality in the Workplace Christian Johnstone DeVry University Gender Inequality in the Workplace A woman, who had spent 23 years working her way up the ranks at a Vermont plastics company, sued the company for wage discrimination. The woman began her career as a secretary at the company and eventually made her way to high-level management. The company hired a male to replace her position when she retired, offering him a starting pay of $10,000 more a year to do the same job she had been doing. The male replacement ended up not working out, so the company asked the woman to return to her previous position. However, the company still didn’t offer her the same salary that they had offered her male replacement. (Lister, n.d.) Examples that are similar to, and far worse than the one mentioned, continue to persist in this country. Women continue to be blatantly discriminated against, and held back from deserved promotions while their male counterparts rise through the ranks in corporate America. Women have made great strides in the last few decades toward gaining workplace equality. However, in a continued effort toward moving forward, there needs to be a promotion of empowerment for women and giving them the autonomy needed to manage their own lives. The reality though, is that the phenomenon referred to as the glass ceiling does exist. “The ‘glass ceiling’ can be described as an ‘invisible, but impenetrable barrier which prevents women from reaching senior positions...
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...Gender Inequality Gender inequality is a very real thing in the world we know today. It exists all around the world, even in our America. Gender inequality exists between our average American males, and American females. There are plenty examples of inequality in the workforce and even in homes. Is it not often in the media, around your family, and possibly in yourself you see inequality? Usually it is indeed females that receive the most inequality but there are cases where men are treated unequally. Women in society are often seen as the softer, smooth, and not as physical gender. When in truth this is not as it really is, women can be just as hard, rough, and physical as men. But often women are paid less for the same thing as men, and just because they are women! They are not eligible for certain things, for example – the military where women are not allowed in combat situations. And often women are seen as unequal period in the workforce, therefore some people see it that women should stay in the home working there cleaning, cooking, and other things. But in fact more than 50% of homes in America are dual income. But as mentioned gender inequality is not just in America but indeed affects the whole world. One main area that you may see this in the world would definitely be the Middle East. Due to most people’s religion’s there and just their natural beliefs, women are treated very, very poorly. Also in sports around the world, women are treated differently. Did you...
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...between nations. While these measures have traditionally focused on social and economic data, recent trends have extended to address other features. One important aspect in this regard is the underlying societal gender discrimination and the diverse outcome for males and females. This is commonly referred to as gender inequality. According to Dorius and Firebaugh (2010), gender inequality is where one gender possesses an excessively large proportion of valued items, such as political influence, wages or good health. Although every region of the world has developed policies and laws to tackle gender inequality, Asia-Pacific has countries with varying social and economic circumstances. This essay will examine gender inequality in two Asia-Pacific states, namely China and Singapore. The essay will consider employment and family-based gender inequality in each nation and assess the similarities and differences between them. Gender inequality has major impacts on nations, in particular on the Asia-Pacific zone. Francisco (2007) delineates various forms of inequality, namely mortality, natality, basic facility, special opportunity, professional, ownership and household forms of inequality. In this field, Jutting, Morrison, Dayton- Johnson and Drechsler (2008) argue that gender equality is vital to promote economic growth, wealth creation and poverty reduction. As an illustration, the Asia-Pacific region foregoes approximately 2-4 percent of GDP per year due to low female workforce participation...
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...December 10, 2012 Gender Inequality: How Women get the Short Stick Gender equality and gender roles go hand in hand in today’s economy. These two concepts complement each other to the extent in which one must know about both to fully understand the capacity of either. Gender roles are roles each sex is given. These are stereotypical things. For example, things like women cook and males work. In todays economy men and women are not equal. Gender inequality and gender roles are one of our countries biggest issues. Gender is how people are seen by society. This is imprinted in the brain at a young age and is formed and molded through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and late adulthood. Each stage comes with different ideas about gender and power. Childhood is the point in life where the environment most influences the formation of gender schemas and stereotypes. Gender schemas are an important part of understanding how a person sees the opposite sex. Gender Schemas are “the generalizations that children develop about the differences between boys and girls” (Stevenson 3). On the other hand there is stereotyping. Stereotyping is also process that begins during childhood. Young children know that male stereotypes are high in power whereas female stereotypes convey fear and helplessness. Children are influenced by information about gender from family, peers, and the media (Stevenson 3). This justifies the argument that men and women aren’t treated equal. Gender Roles are evident...
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...Considering the Complexity of Gender, Literacy, and Technology." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 50.4 (2006): 300-307. Academic Search Complete. Web. 22 Oct. 2015. Williams starts with a relative advocate but mention a wife in the kitchen and a husband on an out dated computer at the kitchen table. The wife is admiring her loving husband. While the husband is staring intently at the computer. William states that computers are more often than not portrayed in the media as a “guy thing”. But he says women are certainly portrayed as users of technology in the larger culture. What I get from this William is trying to portray that men are being stereotyped as computer geeks when in this society women are the voices for technology. “What changes are needed in the computer culture to improve its image, repair its deficits, and make it more appealing to girls and women?” (iv). "Gender Studies." Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Ed. Bryan S. Turner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Credo Reference. Web. 26 Oct 2015. Turner starts with informing the readers that this topic has many subtopic to go with it which means more information on it. Turner then goes on by telling the readers other subtopic that can go with such as gender in feminism, women’s studies and many more. Turner moves on in to a sociology stand point and defines social constructionism. Turner says “Sociologists are concerned with understanding how people do, rather than have, gender . . .” Turner also mentions...
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...Gender Inequality Jaymes L Davis ENG 122: English Composition II Jennifer Chagala December 7, 2015 Gender Inequality Gender equality is a subjective issue and means slightly different things to each man and women. Laws can be enacted and enforced, but society as a whole should be striving for this. Historically women have been considered lesser citizens in the United States. Not being able to own property or handle money until around 1900, it was then that women have fought and won their right to vote, work, reproductive rights, equal pay, education, and to share in the same rights as men. Now that women have gained some footing, it is still apparent that women lag far behind men in wages, and power. Taking a look at the laws that were passed to provide equality may explain why there is still such a gap. If the United States wants to remain at par with other industrialized nations, it may need to look at the policies they have regarding gender in the law. Despite progress in public policy as well as traditionally male-dominated arenas, women are still largely profiled as the primary caregiver and homemaker, decreasing the impact of the modern woman on society. Excluding gender from laws and as a matter of policy has been the United States approach to gender equality, but some feel that this has done little to fulfill that goal. The United States guarantees women the right to compete as equal individuals, so any provisions to "special treatment on the...
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...Gender equality means men and women are equal in society in terms of rights, roles, responsibilities, and opportunities. Thailand’s ranking on the gender inequality index is 92 out of 138 (UN Women Thailand Country Programme, n.d.), which means that there are many inequalities that remain in Thailand. There are two causes of, many examples of, and two solutions to the problem of gender inequality in Thailand. In term of sexual violence, as recently as 2008 domestic violence against women was a serious problem in Thailand. According to a study, many Thai police also do not take an interest in domestic violence crimes (US Department of State, 2009). Moreover, from 2005 to 2008, domestic violence against women and children happened in 10,816 cases, and there were on average twenty-nine cases for each month, most often committed by family members. Statistically, the most reported incidences of violence against women in Thailand occur in Bangkok (Corporal, L. L. 2009). In term of politics, Thailand from its inception allowed equal rights for men and women, according to the first constitution. In 1932, Thailand changed the form of government in the land from an absolute monarchy to a parliamentary democracy system. In doing so, both men and women would have equal rights to vote and work (UNDP, 2006). However, the number of women who participate in politics by holding an elected position in Thailand is merely 4 percent. Moreover, the number of female politicians in the parliament...
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...Functionalist and Conflict Theorists Differ in the Approach and Understand of Gender Inequality Functionalist believe that there are still social roles better suited to one gender than the other and societies stay more stable when norms are full field by the appropriate sex. They emphasize how a particular “female role” may work in tandem with a particular “male role” within the family. The approach of functionalist is that sex determines which roles men and women are suited to; men’s are tend to play an instrumental role that is being task oriented, a “breadwinner”, and an authority figure and for women instead they play expressive roles that is to provide emotional support and nurturing, this is a crucial role not only to the care of children but also for stabilizing the personality of the instrumental partner against the stresses of the competitive world. Conflicts theorist take a different approach. To this perspective, men have historically had access to most of society’s materials resources and privileges and consequently they generally seek to maintain their dominant status. Some see gender inequality as a derivate of class, inequality and that it therefore originates with private property. Women’s do the work of reproducing the labor force without receiving any direct compensation and they serve as an inexpensive “reserve army” of labor when they need arises. Differences between the Three Waves of the Feminist Movement The third-wave feminist criticize the first...
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...Nickisher White December 4, 2013 Professor Fischer Gender Inequality in a Global Perspective What is Gender Inequality? Like others, a social problem that is widespread in American society is Gender inequality. It is a problem that has had a negative impact on American society. Gender inequality can be found in many sub-systems of America. It is important to understand what gender inequality is in order to identify and correct the problem. Two sub-systems that gender inequality can be found are in the family and in the workplace. Gender inequality, in my definition, is the unequal and biased treatment between the two sexes. I strongly believe that the unequal treatment of women is something that should have stayed in original times. We are in the present now and we are far more advanced than we ever were and yet we are old school in our thinking of how men and women should be treated. I can strongly identify with gender inequality because many of my closest friends have faced it or still face it. Materialist theories define gender inequality as a result of how men and women are tied to the economic structure of society. They believe that women’s role as a mother and wife are devalued by society and deny access to highly respected public opportunities. Gender stratification refers to the ranking of the sexes in such a way that women are unequal in power, resources, prestige, or worth. Materialist theories indicate that gender stratification is increased where women’s work...
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...words, half of the Chinese population are men. It is believed that the motive behind gender inequality between Chinese males and females is due to their one-child policy . Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping has established the one-child policy in 1979 as a solution to limit China’s population growth. Although it was implemented as a ``temporary measure, `` the one-child policy still exists twenty-five years later. Luckily, in the era of 21st century, in North America, for example, there is no such policy that entails gender discrimination since both males and females have similar rights as well as privileges. However, even in the 21st century, China is still struggling with its enormous gap that exists between genders because males are more valued than women. Therefore, women are not expected to place in a inferior place as opposed to men and this is why Chinese families seek to have more boys first than girls. The aim of this paper will be to prove the gender inequality within the Chinese inequality, from different perspectives, Sociological, psychological and economical studies. Sociological Chinese gender discrimination persists everywhere, especially in the labour market since some women are being segregated in various occupational categories. Sex segregation refers to the chances of entering a certain occupation or industry for people of different gender. Consequently, the degree of inequality in units outside the system such as in coastal provinces is also greater than in the...
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...Concept Map Essay - Gender Inequality Gender inequality has been present in the United States throughout the history of its existence. There are many forms of gender inequality such as occupational segregation or the gender pay gap. Over many years the persistence of these issue has been slightly alleviated. However, even with this alleviation gender inequality is constantly a pressing issue that can be found under the microscope of many sociologists and social science professionals. As well as being a formal and academic issue, many individuals from all walks of life argue over civil rights daily to mitigate these social problems. Equality is something that should be freely allowed to people of all social and cultural groups, gender included. However gender inequality manages to impose on even this most simple ideal. The idea to be unfair or unjust to the opposite sex is not one that we are born with, but the gender roles we are raised within might have influence on our later actions toward one gender or another. From a young age we are given, taught, shown, or influenced to act with a feminine or masculine behavior. Little girls are present with dolls and china sets, while little boys are given trucks and toy soldiers. When entered into the world of athletics young girls are often entered into ballet or gymnastics, on the other hand boys start playing baseball or basketball. It is now becoming more common to see just as many girls racing down soccer fields as boys...
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...Gender Inequality There are so many occupations for you to choose. So, this is why most people went to collage to study the specific occupation that they want to do. Yet because of the gender, you might find it difficult to get a job that you would like to work. As we know women might have more difficulty than men. So, there are many solutions to solve the gender inequality problem such as: Solve from personal standards, Solve from company standards, and lastly solve from the government standards. First solution is solving from personal standards. Many years ago, most personal standards are that men are stronger and better than women. Moreover, there are a number of people who think women are better than men. But, if we think in the way that men and women are equal, it will make more easier to co-ordinate and deal with people that oppose gender or same gender. And also makes the world become more peaceful if everybody is equal. For example, the number of poor population will be decreasing. So everybody could have a better life than now. Unfortunately, It is hard and difficult to change personal standards or people’s minds because some people can’t accept this solution; they always think that they are the best. The second solution is solving company standards. We should make every gender equal at work to make it fair for everyone. Nowadays, many companies allow only women to achieve high positions and some companies allow only men. Why do they think like that? It is because...
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...Gender Inequality To: Ken Cornwell SOCI 1010 From: Anita Schlicher Fall/2012 Paper III Gender Inequality There have been vast changes in women's rights in the last century. After endless picketing, fighting and jail sentences, women were finally given the right to vote on a national level. Over the course of history, women have found that rights which were automatically granted for men required an exhaustingly large amount of fighting to obtain for themselves. It is unbelievable that the role of the woman had been devalued so much that women were not allowed to do what many women today now consider “basic” things such as receiving an education, holding jobs that did not involve children, or even own property. Even though women today are able to earn college degrees, have careers, own property, vote, and even run for political positions themselves, there are still countless gender inequalities. Children are submitted to gender roles pretty much from the moment they are born. Baby showers involve a sea of pastel blues for boys and soft, delicate pink for girls. Female children are given dolls and doll houses and other cute toys, and...
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