What Is Gender Equality Essay

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The evolution of human species has lead to roles we have placed on males and females and what we expect them to do for our society. With the gender norms we have developed over time towards each gender, in order to break the cultural barrier, this requires us to put down the norms we know for each gender and to accept that some males and females maybe different from the norm. These differences should not be considered as harmful to our society or deviant acts that interfere with our gender norms that we have set for our society but should be considered accepted. As human rights beings to increase, humans should be also given the rights to act outside of how society views males and females on its own but should open up to different acts …show more content…

Although we may see that females have the same rights as males in most circumstances, there is still a gender norm which controls how each gender should act. Women have fought for their rights and have been successful but the gender norms are still holding females back from being able to freely enjoy what males enjoy. Our society has been governed by these gender norms that help control how each of us as males and females should live. These gender norms help guide us through our life as being a male and female. When we were born, we are able to see our gender as displayed by someone else and we learn on how we should also act as well. These gender norms help guide how we live our lives and what we do with ourselves and helps make our decisions when we are unsure. In educating ourselves, gender norms are visibly throughout the education system as males and females are taught what is acceptable by each gender and how we should act. If we act outside of these gender norms, we are considered deviant and different. In school we are taught as males and females in what courses we should be taking and how to act as a male and

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