GENDER

DISCRIMINATION
AND
INEQUALITIES
GENDER DISCRIMINATION
• Gender Discrimination is when there is bias based on a person’s sex
that leads to defining the roles that he/she should play in the society.
• The difference between SEX and GENDER:
“Sex” refers to our biological and physiological traits; ‘’Gender” refers
to the roles society assign people based on their sex
GENDER INEQUALITY
• Gender inequality is the notion and circumstance where women
and men are not considered equally. It refers to unequal treatment
or perceptions of individuals entirely or partially due to their
gender.
 MANIFESTATION OF
GENDER INEQUALITIES
Gender Inequality in the Workplace

• In terms of employment as well as promotion in work and occupation, women often

Gender Inequality in Media

• Men and Women are constantly being sexualized on different forms of media (bike ads,
perfume ads), objectification of women and at times assuming multi- tasking and
unrealistic expectations are normal and designating specific knowledge about gender
like giving blue or dark colors to men and pink clothes for women.

Gender Inequality in Health

• Sex selective health care and infanticide suggest a correlation between the numbers of
females to males. Women family members are less likely to receive modern medical
care and are generally recipients of traditional remedies. The health situation for urban
women is worse than that for rural women, especially those living in slums. The urban
population living in the slum areas do not have adequate sanitation, water and health
facilities which results in poor health.
Gender Inequality in the Family

• Women are still responsible for the majority of the domestic chores and
childcare. While women are splitting their time between work and care of the
home, men are pressured into being the primary economic supporter of the
home. Despite the fact that different households may divide chores more
evenly, there is evidence that supports that women have retained the primary
caregiver role within familial life despite contributions economically.

• Men will naturally work outside the home, women could do it if and only if
they could combine it with various inescapable and unequally shared
household duties. This is sometimes called "division of labor," though women
could be forgiven for seeing it as "accumulation of labor."

• The old traditions favored men in matters of inheritance: only sons – not
daughters -could inherit their parents. After independence, however, these
traditions were abolished by law. But in the North, nothing has really changed
and women are still deprived of inheritance.
Natality Inequality

• In this type of inequality a preference is given for boys over girls that many male-
dominated societies have, gender inequality can manifest itself in the form of the
parents wanting the newborn to be a boy rather than a girl. With the availability of
modern techniques to determine the gender of the fetus, sex- selective abortion has
become common in many countries. It is particularly prevalent in East Asia, in
China and South Korea in particular, but also in Singapore and Taiwan, and it is
beginning to emerge as a statistically significant phenomenon in India and South
Asia as well.
CAUSES OF GENDER
DISCRIMINATION
AND INEQUALITIES
 Culture and tradition
• Culture can simply be defined as the way of life of a particular
society or ethnic group, and tradition is the custom or belief of
a society. Honestly, Culture and tradition can cause gender
inequality. In order to see both the female and male gender as
equal, there should be a serious revival in some cultures and
traditions.
 Religion
• In the world of today, so many people have developed bias attitude toward
religion because they recently found out that so many religious groups are
causing harm to human race instead of making it a better place for all.
Some teachings in some religions has cause more pains than peace to the
world. It is good to belong to a religious group and better if you know what
is right to do as an individual irrespective of any religious group.
 Lack of Empowerment
• Women are still regarded as nothing in some parts of the world because there
are no women empowered. Understanding the importance of youth
empowerment where more attention will be paid in empowering most female
gender will curb the issue of female gender inequality. The government of
every country should understand the importance of training and development
and make effort to train the female which then will “give birth” to proper
development; and hence reduces female gender inequality
 Mentality
• Many people are still going on with certain archaic (outdated)
mentalities that never will any lady or woman rule them in any
organization. This old mentality is one of the key causes of the less
respect given to women in some societies. Also, many women have
the mentality that it is not possible for them to occupy top positions in
politics and other areas. They have the mentality that leaders are only
meant to be men and not the women. This old mentality induces fear
in them and makes them reluctant instead of working hard to be
registered as big boss of some top companies.
 Lack of proper education
• There is a saying: “education is power to success”. Based on this
topic, lack of proper education is the cause of gender inequality as
nobody can go far in this modern world without good education.
Yes, it is hard for any female to be recognized without proper and
adequate education given to her. It is painful that many families do
not pay good attention to their female children because the families
do not see them as being very valuable to them when compared
with the male.
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