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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Lisa Ling’s study showed that over ¼ of babies adopted and brought to the United States are from China. Most of these babies are girls. Due to the one child policy to control population, these unwanted girls are aborted, abandoned or hidden. They might even get killed. Boys are preferred because they will carry on the family name and they will stick with the family to care for them as they get older. These girls have never known a father. They have never known a mother, and they never knew a big sister. Most of them will be adopted from families in the United States. Others will stay in an orphanage until they are old enough to be on their own. China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations with over 4,000 years of history and culture. Today,
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.
As a result of this norm, more feminists who recognize the “systematic disadvantage” (Cahill 206) that women face daily in other countries is the reason why many feminists believe governments should oppose typical gender roles and gender stereotypes by protecting the rights of women. However, culture is always subject to change thus, leading developing countries who have neglected the rights of women to improve due to the global influence of other countries who have gender equality. This, in turn, leads countries to be “forced” to accept feminist agendas who “hold[ing] these patterns… to change them, and thus to change the realities that they produce” (Cahill 208). Not only does gender affect social issues but it also has progressed onto the economic sector for business as well, making gender a multifaceted topic for any
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.
Violence and injustices also greatly affect non-western women. Female circumcision, polygamy, the ease of divorce and violence against women, as well as the lack of access to productive resources and unequal access to education and health care, plague the women of the less developed countries. For the modernization of these non-western countries women must play a larger role than they do now. Without equality for women less developed countries cannot move forward.
Since the beginning of civilization, the role of men and women have been portrayed by their capabilities. During wars, men were asked to fight against enemies because they had the necessary strength to combat. On the other hand, women were asked to take care of the household chores and to give birth to increase the overall population of the country. This concept of roles has been highly present in our societies. Women fighting against the gender inequality have created a stir among the dominant group which are men. Since men are still more dominant and keep reigning in this world, often women are restricted from getting fair opportunities to achieve in their goals. Till now, women are forced to be obedient to men in certain societies. From past few decades, this perspective is slowly coming to an end in most of the society. Women are now being empowered by ideologies which is reshaping their identity in many societies.
The narrow view of the world that we often experience prevents us from even engaging for or against ideals that we would take on, given the chance. We often become deaf to opportunity, however. While it may seem we are complicit in many of the injustices that our society perpetuates, often times we are not even aware of the issue. An uninformed decision will be as bad as no decision. Many problems exude from the state of our social values. The role that women play in society is slowly changing from that of a ‘nurturer’ to any role a woman strives for. Progress has come through much pain and the hope is one day there will be real equality in the results of our societies spoken and unspoken laws.
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 continues 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 right to vote, hold eminent
The practice of female infanticide shows how desirable having a male child is that parents would take the lives of a female baby. The dowry system in India is the main cause of female infanticide in India. Gender inequalities in the rural part of northern India exhibit female infanticide occurs here the most despite laws to abolish these acts. Men hold a higher value in this society because a system they adapted many years ago. Men are seen as an asset or of value because at one point his future wife and her family will “pay” for him. Daughters are opposite and viewed as a burden to the family because she will have to marry one day and that will cost her parents. So women are not viewed equally here even as infants, they don’t even stand a chance. Officials have tried to make laws to assist in reducing female infanticide but people have continued to follow traditions of the dowry systems putting the population at risk as well
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Women of China have their own opinions when it comes to their families, being under a controlled government and being told how many children they can have only makes it harder if them. Also China’s Health Ministry estimates that in the four decades since the imposition of the one-child policy more than 336 million abortions have taken place in the nation. Nora...
...action with others… especially men. This supplies final substantiation of the authors' argument, that women continue to be oppressed by their male-dominated societies. It is a bold undertaking for women to ally and promote a world movement to abandon sexist traditions. Although I have never lived in a third world or non-Westernized country, I have studied the conditions women suffer as "inferior" to men. In National Geographic and various courses I have taken, these terrible conditions are depicted in full color. Gender inequality is a terrible trait of our global society, and unfortunately, a trait that might not be ready to change. In America we see gender bias towards women in voters' unwillingness to elect more females into high office, and while this is not nearly as severe as the rest of the world, it indicates the lingering practice of gender inequality.
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.
...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.