Sexual Discrimination Essay

Sexual discrimination, also known as gender discrimination is prejudice based on the sex of a person. Throughout history, discrimination against people of any kind, for countless reasons, have led to many catastrophes. While sexual discrimination may not seem to bring any sort of impending doom, it causes traumatic effects on individual worldwide. It does this by affecting many aspects of a person’s life, such as their emotional and physical well-being. Sexual discrimination also plays an effect on religion. In a world where lives are shaped on ethics and morality, the Catholic religion does it’s best to highlight the religious views and aspects on such matters.

Discrimination of any kind has the ability of affecting a person emotionally. In fact, it can have such a great impact that it constricts them to degrading mindsets. Mullin states that, “a girl can’t help but feel inferior when everything around her tells her that she is worth less than a boy. Her identity is forged as soon as her family and society limit her opportunities and declare her to be second-rate,” (Mullins). One could almost imagine the kind of emotional heartbreak and hurt a person would undertake when they are constantly reminded that they are worth nothing. Women who go through such treatments are being kept from reaching their potential and are left with the mindset that they are no good for anything in life. This leaves them with unguarded to all sorts of emotional abuse, and with no sense of worth. These girls have no other option but to come to terms with the life they are being forced to live. It also states that, “the victim can suffer distress with… psychological (nervousness, insomnia, fatigue) effects as well as loss of personal identity and self-es...

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...t on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:36-38). Loudly and clearly, God wants us to know that we are all equal; both man and woman. No one should have to suffer because of a gender that God had blessed him or her to be. From a personal religious perspective, because of my Christian background, it is important to me that everyone is treated equally. If man and woman were both created by God, why should there be a distinction between whom is better and who isn’t. Sadly, in many parts of the world, some societies have chosen instead to favour a specific gender (male) over the female because the boys are seen as breadwinners. There are many ways to make a change but to begin we all need to be aware and make awareness – spread knowledge to everyone around.