Gender Bias In Canada

Gender bias can be seen in many aspects, such as, education, employment opportunity, treatments in family. Based on the American Heritage Dictionary, 1983 bias is defined as "preference or inclination that inhibits impartiality; prejudice" while gender bias is defined as inclination towards or prejudice against one gender.

Based on one of Canada statistics web, a sudden reversal has taken place on Canadian university campuses for over the last 30 years. According to the 1971 Census made in Canada, most of the university graduates were male but in the 2001 Census, universities had vividly become the domain of women, as 58% of graduates are women.1 Women nowadays are more aggressive to compete as the modern life has taught that education is the number one key to achieve something in life. People nowadays also did not believe or tied anymore with the taboo that said “women do not need a high education because they will end up cooking for their family”. In fact, there are women who were busy studying, but still can manage their family well.

In workplace setting, women are more likely to perceive gender bias than men although there are many of them. Based on the data collected, there are two main points whereby women are still underrepresented and

As a result, women will feel like they are less valued by their parents compared to their brothers. For example, there is a stereotype in which women always have to do the house chores. Otherwise, they will be labeled as lazy. In contrast, there will be no problem if the men did the same thing. Another example is women are not allowed to further their studies because their parents are more likely to have them at home to do the house chores. The parents also believed that their daughter have nothing to do with the education and said that “daughter will bring bad luck to the