Drake, one of my favorite music artists, has a song called “Fancy.” It describes the new generation of young women of America who are becoming independent. I will take it further and interpret it as a song about the women who are more and more confident in the workplace and more and more productive than their male counterparts. “Nails done, hair done, everything did,” describes the woman who cannot even have a male date pay for food -- she has to pay for the outing. Believe it or not, many youth today – especially college students – live out this song when it comes to dating the other sex. Men have no problem with women paying their half of the check, seeing as if they had a problem with it they would be taking away from their date’s independent nature. Girls have taken charge with or without their man’s consent.
In the United States, women are becoming more and more valued in the workplace. This generalization even includes women of different ethnicities such as African American and Asian decent. Huge corporate companies understand that women today are determined to make it. Women are becoming the backbone to America’s productivity chain. However, Asian countries like India, South Korea, Georgia, and China still have rather misogynist societies. India and China are the worst out of these four named Asian countries. Since the 1970’s, unborn girls have gone “missing” to prevent the continent from having 163 million more women and girls than men and boys. In many Asian countries, like China, the government constitutes how many children each family can have. First-born girls are usually not “lost” or aborted because they are the first-born and the family is excited to have a new breathing soul in their house. However, w...
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...Do we choose to diminish the number of males in these developing countries to take revenge on the men who oppressed women for centuries upon centuries, or are we going to choose to advance our children – no matter their gender? We as women can choose to see the value on both sides, not just one.
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Times change and people come and go, but fear is a constant, and in “The Great Fear” by J. Ronald Oakley, he describes the wave of fear that occurred in the 1950s. In 1692, the townspeople of Salem were scared into believing that they were among witches, and in 1950’s the “Red” Scare destroyed thousands of peoples lives that were accused of being Communists. Those accused in both witch hunts were put on trial, and while many were killed in Salem, the Red Scare had blacklisted those persecuted.
Dena Davis in the 5th chapter of “Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children’s Futures” explores the global attitudes, policies, and morality towards determination of sex. She begins with presenting empirical evidence of some preferences held in countries such as India or China where there is a clear desire for male children. This inclination is so deeply held that mothers can be socially and physically harmed when, by pure biological chance, they fail to produce a male child. Davis and others allow sex selection in these cases, purely in the interest of harm reduction of mothers and their daughters born into such a situation. This example is contrasted with so-called “western” societies, where the preference
In 1979, China decided to establish a one child policy which states that couples are only allowed to have one child, unless they meet certain exceptions[1].In order to understand what social impacts the one child policy has created in China it important to evaluate the history of this law. China’s decision to implement a Child policy has caused possible corruption, an abuse of women’s rights, has led to high rates of female feticide, has created a gender ratio problem for China, and has led to specific problems associated with both the elderly and younger generation. Finally, an assessment of why China’s one child policy is important to the United States allows for a full evaluation of the policy.
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Throughout history, women in general have been subjected to gender-based discrimination. The hardships and challenges women endured were based on cultural stereotypes that portrayed women as only somebody’s wife or mother — as if they were property. In patriarchal, male-dominated societies that exist in many, if not all aspects of the world, we continue to view women as the “weaker sex” who need constant provision and protection. It is that form of male chauvinism that leads to the abuse, suppression, and exploitation of women, especially in developing nations and societies. In the U.S. those beliefs were used to justify the suppression of women’s rights for a period of time which kept and prohibited them from the right to vote, hold eminent positions, and work in certain fields.
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Gender imbalance is a growing issue around the world. Mara Hvistendahl talks about the issue of gender imbalance in her essay “Missing: 163 Million Women.” She brings up a lot of good points about how gender imbalance will hinder and has already hindered the world. Hvistendahl does not mention that another consequence of gender imbalance is gender inequality. Gender inequality has been a result of women not being seen as equal to men, women being discouraged to do things that men do, and men becoming more powerful and taking advantage of women.
Reproductive health, rights, and control are central to the life experience of women. Reproductive health and rights focus on healthcare for women and their reproductive systems. Reproductive rights focus on a women’s control over her reproductive system and her sexuality. However, the amount of rights and control women are given for their reproductive rights is not equal across the world. In many countries, women have little to no rights over their bodies and are often left without proper medical care. In addition to pregnancy, the actual birth of a child can be complex as well. While babies are typically seen as a gift for women, they can also symbolize growing wealth, love, or disappointment. These symbols typically stem from the gender
The Chinese and Indian populations have grown exponentially over the last fifty years. Accompanied with this has been an increased and continuing desire for male children, which is referred to as son preference. This strong son preference has resulted in a disproportionate son ratio for both China and India, which results in a very disproportionate gender ratio. For both countries, there are several factors involved in the problem: cultural expectation, available technology, and long-term economic benefit, just to name a few. To combat the disproportionate gender ratio in China and India, it is necessary to approach the problem from several different angles; ones that will ultimately give women rights and methods to contribute to their family
Mentioned before women who were pregnant were forced to have an abortion. If a woman defied the one Child policy, she and the child would be negatively affected. In China, there is a tradition to have a male child instead of a female because males are considered to be stronger and are also preferred by the people of China. In this case, larger number of female babies have ended up homeless, on the street, or in orphanages, while more males babies were kept by their families (“Case Study: China”). As well if a woman did have a second child, most child went into hiding from being confiscated by the authorities (“How China’s One Child Policy Led to Forced Abortions”). Children were living in hiding, preventing them from ever being able to live a full and prosperous life. Imagine that? Imagine you never got the chance to go play outside freely or travel because if your were caught, you would be ripped away from your family because you are an illegal second child living in China. The one child policy did not just affect the woman having the children, it also affected innocent children who didn’t deserve the effect of the one child
There was a time in the world when women were without basic rights and required the power to make decisions about their own lifestyle. They weren’t educated to the same standard as men. They weren’t allowed to work, they weren’t even allowed to inherit property. Everything belonged to their husband or family. There were no women in the police force or government and women weren’t even allowed to vote. Men’s power over women often cost their lives , the physical power is obvious. But there is also emotional power. Yet, after many years, women and men are still not equal. Women and girls should be able to lead a free, equal and self-determining life in every corner of the world just like men do so.
While using contraception things could go wrong and if these women are on birth control that would be the extra push that could save them from having a child when they are not ready. Lori M. Huhter explains why gender equality is so important as people get older. Huhter talks about how there should not be set roles in the house when it comes to working, Lori M. Huhter states “The "women in development" perspective argues that gender equality is indeed essential for development, since a country that discriminates against half of its population simply cannot utilize its full potential.” Huhter later states “The goal of gender equality, in turn, rests on a foundation built by improving female educational attainment, and not only because of improvements in literacy: education brings self-esteem, self-confidence, and problem-solving abilities, all of which enhance one 's potential as well as possible contributions to household, community, and society.” Even though I agree that women and males should learn more about gender equality, I do not think it has a great impact on women’s rights when it has to deal with contraception. Meanwhile, Margaret Sanger discusses how race is tied into family planning. Sanger argues that because back in the day the lower class was forced to work in factories and have a multiple amount of kids, it made a big impact to the world population. Now causing overpopulation. By sending over birth control to the lower class in these poor countries the over population rate would decrease and the lives of these people would be better. “If families could not choose the timing and the pacing of their children, she argued, then they could not reduce or eliminate the social conditions that fed into the cycles of poverty, disease, and neglect so readily apparent in tenements and slums in the inner
...arly evidenced by the differences that can be observed between developed and developing nations. Even though females make up less than 50 % of the Bangladeshi population, they do, nevertheless, comprise a good portion of it, and contribute accordingly to the demographics of the country, and the so-called social and economic progress associated with them. This shows that the impact of gender-based inequality, especially in a developing country, reaches far beyond humanitarian issues and actually affects the development of the country itself, and that continued discrimination against females on the basis of their gender will only serve to slacken the pace of Bangladesh’s development and prolong the suffering and mistreatment endured by women who are treated as second class citizens in a society that once claimed to revere all women as if they were their own mothers.
What do you think about when you think about India? You might think about India’s large democracy, it’s festivals, and how they dress. But beyond the surface, there is much more than that going on in India, such as the declining rate of women in India. India has had a falling number of women in India since 1961. There are multiple reasons for this. Baby girls are being killed, women are being raped and killed and women are killing themselves due to depression caused by men. In 21st century India, reversing the rate of female births and deaths in India must be a top priority. This is a major problem because India needs women to make children so their population could grow, children are healthier when taken cared for by their mother; and the crime and rape rate will go up.The most effective ways of tackling the problem include making laws that takes control from men, giving women more freedom, putting more people in jail for killing their baby girls and giving women guards to walk with them at night for safety.
The issue of gender inequality is one which has been publicly reverberating through society for years. Gender inequality is one of the most serious & ethical issues in India today. Gender inequality in India is described as a preferential treatment arising out of prejudice based on the gender. The aim of this research is to discuss the status of women in India in the past, present and future and discuss any political movements which took place in the society in order for Women to be regarded as equal.