The Importance Of Gender And Gender Inequality

1. How does language reinforce gender inequality and substantiate a gendered hierarchy?

Gender inequality is where one’s gender has more privileged than the other. Gender defines the appropriately notions between masculine and feminism. It is constructed based on social norms, so much that it is structured in our language. Particular words express position of power, authority, and sexism such as policeman and congressman. If a male or female oriented position was obtained by the opposite sex a marker would be identified before the position: female doctor is one example.

Language that is entwined with double standards reinforces gender inequality and maintain a gendered hierarchy. Double standards enable one sex justification and praised while

An example of racism is that all blacks are lazy. Research by Rakesh Kochhar and Richard Fry states, “The wealth of white households was 13 times the median wealth of black households in 2013, compared with eight times the wealth in 2010, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances. Likewise, the wealth of white households is now more than 10 times the wealth of Hispanic households, compared with nine times the wealth in 2010” (Fry and Kochhar, 2015). Structural racism impact employment, education, diet, environment, and other social norms. According to Gary Orfield, “This double and triple segregation has become far worse since the U.S. Supreme Court began dissolving desegregation plans 16 years ago—a dissolution that continues to deepen and intensify segregation. Across 21st-century America, segregation has reached levels for millions of students once found only in the Old South. It has produced schools that require massive resources to offer the kinds of opportunities and instruction routinely available to students in privileged schools and communities” (Orfield,

How can you define gender? How do we “do” gender? Many people confuse the two different words: sex and gender, as one meaning, but they both have separate definitions. Sex is biological because it is determine by reproductive areas, chromosomes, hormones, etc. Sociologist defines gender as social expectations of behavior and traits. For an example; males are considered masculine and “bread-winner.” Gender socialization explains why females and males behave differently. Gender is done from the day the parents unborn child’s sex is identified, such as painting the room pink or blue or the different ways we tend to show affection toward different