Gender Stereotypes Of Women

According to the Women continue to have fewer rights, lower education and health status, less income, and less access to resources and decision-making than men. However, women play a critical role in mass food or grain production, revenue generation, and management of natural resources, community groups and domestic duties are vital for ecological growth. Majority of the individuals see the issue of economic equality of women as obsolete or out dated, since “new world” of opportunity has opened up to the women giving them access to higher education and more equal division of labor between the men and the women. But yet the fact is that after years of progress in the “twentieth century between 1970’s and the 1980’s the gender gap has been stuck” (Beaujot, Kerr 2004). Even though our charter of rights and freedoms states that, everyone should be treated equally no matter what gender one may belong too, or in other words equality rights for all, it seems that Statistics confirm that the females are given limited opportunities compared to the males in their occupational fields because even though women tend to have higher education or bring the same skill set compared to men, their skills are overlooked due to unequal distribution of family obligations and also due to the gender stereotypes about females. This essay will consist of the problems that women are facing compared to men, which is going to include workforce discrimination, family obligations, limited occupational choices and sexisms faced by the women.

As a society, we need to continue to encourage and convince the individuals living amongst us to visualize beyond the stereotypes and distinguish the contributions that each individual, whether a male or a female, can make ...

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...e are people and therefore to remind ourselves that people have similar capacities to feel pain suffering and need (2011). Williams brought up a strong point because, everyone breathes the same air, eats the same food; feel pain and so on, so how is it that one individual is more superior over the other? As a society, individuals need to treat the women with respect and equality, because they are humans too. Economic inequality between women and men persists and is worsening because of a failure to deal with the key issues, in the workplace and in society as a whole. It is far from being sidelined as an “old issue”; we must move the issue of economic equality for women to the center of political debate and action. Our society has a long way to go before gender barriers and stereotypes are broken, every individual is responsible for taking action against inequality.