Essay On Gender Inequality

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Gender inequality has exploited many people over hundreds of years. Women are prohibited from many things while men have power to control women in the society. Women are dependent on men which destroy their rights. In the past, women are not allowed to work outside, they are required to stay at home doing housework and taking care of their husbands and children. In an industrialized world, women are more and more working outside but they still have not been much accepted in order to be a leader of a team or even a president of a nation. It is because of the “glass ceiling” which is the barrier that excludes women from being able to have more responsible jobs in order to reach a higher level of leader positions (Hughes, Michael & Kroehler, 2009). …show more content…

Many people would have asked this question. It seems that our world has changed so much over the time but gender inequality appears to stay as a problem in the world. Yes, many people would think that men and women are equal but it is not everyone who agrees with it. It would be fine to have an idea of inequality as long as you do not affect anyone but in fact, most women are affected by the idea that many people believe that different genders are unequal especially in the workplace. Imagine if your mother or your sister who has been performed very well in her work tasks even better than her colleagues but she does not receive much attention from her managers which leads her to be unable to reach a higher position or even to be a leader only because she is female. How would you feel towards something like this that could happen to your family members? Will you still say that women are unequal to men or would you say that we should not justify a person by their gender? It is totally not fair for women to be treated or put them in a category which eliminating them from higher positions without being really concerned about their higher level of skills and their higher abilities that they have over men. They also have rights to be treated equally and that the world has developed so much and people have seen that as women receive more education these days, they can work in many jobs which men believe that women could not do such as a mechanic …show more content…

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