Sexism: Discrimination Against Women

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In simple words Racism means unfair treatment to people who belong to different race, belief that one race is better than other and expressing that belief in attitude or action.
There are several forms of Racism and one of them is racism against gender known as “Sexism”. Sexism is discrimination made by one gender against the other, based on the assumptions that one is superior to another whether intellectually, physically or emotionally, such as some girls are not allowed to pursue a career in which there are more men (civil engineering, mechanical engineering and more). Sexism doesn’t mean discrimination against women only it, this term implies to men also but women are effected the most. Sexism exists everywhere even in the most developed …show more content…

In the past people made different tasks for different gender for example women had to work in the kitchen and only man will go to work and earn money. The cause of this discriminations is the human itself, we always want to be superior to someone. This type of thinking and the behaviour due to this thinking is the cause of Sexism. Religion somehow contributes to this discrimination. Some people misunderstand or spread wrong things about religion. For example, people say that Islam don’t allow woman to be a business woman but Prophet Muhammad’s wife was a business women.” Therefore, some people spreading wrong religious thoughts are cause of Sexism. Sexism creates a negative effect on human society. Gender discrimination also lead to the killing of unborn babies because some people prefer boys over girls because of the thinking created by the society that boys are the only one that can take the surname of their families and boys are stronger than girls. Because of this type of discrimination, a person can be depressed, can loss self-esteem and can even lose motivation. The worst thing is that when we talk about sexism people say that we are not like that or we don’t do that but they don’t do anything about it and only protect …show more content…

I know one man who was interested in cooking and wanted to do something about cooking but his family members opposed him because they believe that cooking is a field for woman. I have seen people treating other genders differently because they belong to that gender. I know one Kuwaiti woman, his husband (he is not a religious man) didn’t allowed her to work because he don’t think that she should work because she is a woman. A very common example of sexism that I see and hear every day is the belief of many men that women are bad drivers and they should not be allowed to drive. There are few people in my family who belief this. Other example of sexism is the job postings. In some of the postings there is clearly written that either males are preferred or females are

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