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Essay on Gender Discrimination

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Added on  2020-05-04

Essay on Gender Discrimination

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Gender discrimination1TranscriptGender discrimination is a concept that throws light on the fact that men and women are not equal. This inequality expands to the arenas of their roles, responsibilities, abilities, rights and duties etc. Traditional gender roles are explicitly defined and extremely prevalent in our society today. These discriminations have been existing in our culture since a long time and have been continuing to have an adverse impact on our society since time immemorial. In our existing societal set up, it has been noticed that women are expected to fulfill roles specializing in the domestic sphere whereas men’s roles are tied strictly to public sphere. This has led to drastically different lifestyles of women and men in the society and often women find themselves at a grave disadvantage in the society. According to UNDP’s gender inequality indexEgypt ranked 111th out of 148 countries in all (United Nations development program, 2016). The overall calculated score of Egypt’s inequality index is 0.59 while the perfect score would be 1.0. This is evidence enough to determine the high level of inequality faced by the women of the country.Gender inequality can be seen in different spheres of life specifically education, political participation, work opportunities and even their reproductive health. It has been noticed that most women fail to complete their secondary education. In fact, the literacy rates alone show a discrepancy among young adults with 93.2% male being perfectly literate in comparison to 86.5% women. The scenario is much worse for elders of the house and only 15% of household heads were literate as per the Human development report in 2006 (Ali, 2014).In terms of unemployment, working women are not just unappreciated but rather they are looked down upon. As of 2012, only 24.2% of the total workforce in the country were women. The change is becoming slowly evident especially in the upper middle class but they still have a long way to go. Only 13.4% women between the ages of 15 and 29 are either working or actively seeking jobs. One of the most disturbing elements of gender discrimination is gender based violence. Sexual harassment, domestic violence and sexual violence is increasing day by day. This causes both physical as well as mental trauma in the victim and has been a major cause behind lack of
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