Having been the first generation Indian-American young woman, I have often challenged the cultural beliefs of India that are practiced by my parents and elders within my home. I myself have grown up with the principles of freedom and equality across gender and race to be self-evident. However, in some countries outside of the United States, it is still common to think that women are incapable of performing the same tasks as men. In my upbringing, this concept was repeatedly forced upon me to override any Western ideologies taught in this free enviroment. It is these beliefs that I have challenged all my life to stand up for myself and tried to change their perspective towards females. Women are no less than men, they are only equal to, if not …show more content…
On the other hand, men are encouraged to pursue further education to become a sole financial provider for their future family. The differences made between female and male in my family were very unreasonable, I could not stand them as they were very degrading towards one gender. I understood that this type of rigid thinking was ingrained within my family because of lack of education and limited exposure to the outside world. India has established strict gender roles that everyone obeys unquestionably such as my family. Having grown up in a different environment, I strongly oppose this way of thinking. As a young woman, I want myself and other aspiring women to become successful adults. My family and I have been raised in two very different environments and, often, contentions arise because of our contradicting social upbringings. Based on Indian culture, we would always look to the elders for guidance, but I have realized that I need to stand up for myself and my morals even if that means standing alone. Due to our differences in beliefs, my family has shunned me for couple years, they have never been able to conform with the Western ideologies. Even so, I have continued to fight for my freedom and rights as a
In the past there were many biases against women and their lack of abilities compared to men. Although the male perspective has changed over the past few centuries, there are many feminists who still fight for ...
Although society claims that we are in the age where there is gender equality, it is clear that women are still not of equal standing than men. In our society, women are of lower status than men. Such as in the workplace, a male employee’s project proposal is favored over a female employee’s proposal because a male superior believes that women cannot construct ideas as well as male employees. This is a result of how our culture has influence our view that women are less superior than men. Our male dominant culture taught us that women are not as capable as men are and that between the two genders, the man is the superior.
Everyone in their life experiences a tragic event that brings them pain and hopelessness. After the event occurs we never realize what caused it. In A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini we see that one little decision Mariam makes causes a large turning point for the whole book.
together for the better of the shared children. The women had a say in how they would help
men is that if you give women the same rights as men, they will become like men and
“Women’s empowerment results from a process where women can freely analyze, develop, and voice their needs and interests without them being predefined or unwillingly imposed by religion, government, or social norms and where their influence and control extends women’s familial/kinship circles” (Haghighat, par.6). There is an ongoing fight for women’s rights everywhere around the world. Men have been getting more power than women such as economic and political power and their rights are not limited as women rights are. There are not any limits with men whereas women are limited to many things. “When voting rights were given to women in the late 1800’s to 1920 it was a decisive moment in the women’s right movement in western Europe and North American democracies” (“Women’s rights”).”Women’s rights groups in the second half of the twentieth century focused on greater legal equality in terms of wages and credit, reproductive rights, family law, and education” (“Women’s rights”). Women’s rights are limited to them and it’s time to give women more rights to have equality because women should have equality in every aspect of their lives. They are unable to have self empowerment due to the rights not given to them. Empowerment is increasing spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals or communities. It is about achieving your goals to the best of your ability with your potential.
From the very beginning of history, women were portrayed to be insignificant in comparison to men in society. A woman 's purpose was deemed by men to be housewives, bear children and take care of the household chores. Even so, that at a young age girls were being taught the chores they must do and must continue through to adulthood. This ideal that the woman’s duty was to take charge of household chores was then passed through generations, even til this day. However, this ideology depends on the culture and the generation mothers were brought up in and what they decide to teach their daughters about such roles. After women were given the opportunity to get an education and treated as equals, society’s beliefs undertook a turning point on women’s roles in society. Yet, there still seems to be a question amongst women in search of self identity and expectations from parents.
South Asian women engage in patriarchal values and normative structure established more than two thousands years ago, continue to be oppressed by a dominant group of men. These women suffer further oppression through the strict adherence to cultural garb. Still today, media and educational system portray South Asian women as self-sacrificing, faithful to the family, and submissive to men.
Throughout history and even today women are regarded as inconsequential. They are chattels or servants, a person without rights. In some present instances, women are struggling to show that they do have rights and can make a contribution to society if given the chance.
I believe that women and men can be equals within both spheres of the household and the workforce. As a feminist, I support women that choose to be mothers and not work, I support women that work and their partners stay at home with the children, and I support partners that equally divide up the work and dabble within both spheres. I, personally, want to work, get my PhD, and be a mother. My partner also has the opportunity to choose what they decide to do, whether that be work, stay at home to parent, or do both of the duties equally. My family and I do not share similar values toward gender role ideology. My father maintains a strong traditional view of the separation of men and women’s roles. He believes that women are supposed to be the ones that do all of the cooking, cleaning, and pushing out the children and then raising them. Men are solely the breadwinners and once they come home from work, there should be dinner on the table with children off to bed shortly after while he sits in his recliner and watches television all night. My father was very upset and did not understand why I did not want to get married straight out of high school and actually wanted to pursue my college degree, let alone a PhD. My father does not accept my views and we fight a lot about multiple issues and beliefs. My mother on the other hand is a little better and holds at least a transitional view of gender role ideology. My mother and step-father both
...action with others… especially men. This supplies final substantiation of the authors' argument, that women continue to be oppressed by their male-dominated societies. It is a bold undertaking for women to ally and promote a world movement to abandon sexist traditions. Although I have never lived in a third world or non-Westernized country, I have studied the conditions women suffer as "inferior" to men. In National Geographic and various courses I have taken, these terrible conditions are depicted in full color. Gender inequality is a terrible trait of our global society, and unfortunately, a trait that might not be ready to change. In America we see gender bias towards women in voters' unwillingness to elect more females into high office, and while this is not nearly as severe as the rest of the world, it indicates the lingering practice of gender inequality.
of man, women have been given more freedoms yet they still are not equal to their male
...lways be inferior to men. In their everyday immersion, they are constantly reminded by this fact, and so they constantly subject to men and follow the daily routines prepared for them. They beautify themselves the way man would perceive them to be attractive. And so, even if some women are now displacing men in their own game and in their own world, as long as they wear powders and plastics, they will remain as others. As long as we look at ourselves in context of the eyes of men we will always be treated as mere objects.
From the beginning of time, females have played a powerful role in the shaping of this world. They have stood by idly and watched as this country moved on without them, and yet they have demanded equal rights as the nation rolls along. Through the years the common belief has been that women could not perform as well as men in anything, but over the years that belief has been proven wrong time and time again. So as time marches on, women have clawed and fought their way up the ladder to gain much needed equal respect from the opposite sex. However, after many years of pain and suffering, the battle for equal rights has not yet been won. Since women have fought for a long time and proven their importance in society, they deserve the same rights as men.
Throughout history, there have been constant power struggles between men and women, placing the male population at a higher position than the female. Therefore, in this patriarchal system women have always been discriminated against simply due to the fact that they are women. Their rights to vote, to be educated and essentially being treated equally with men was taken away from them and they were viewed as weak members of society whose successes depend on men. However, this has not prevented them from fighting for what they believe in and the rights they are entitled to. On the contrary, it has motivated them to try even harder and gain these basic societal rights through determination and unity.