Gender Inequality: Understanding the Cultural and Social Basis

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Gender inequality
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Gender inequality
The women have been considered lesser people within the cultures that adore men and
abhor girls for many years. Men and women are two different halves of humanities. Neither of
them can get to the top or has the ability to excellence work with no cooperation of the other. In
the last few decades, women were placed on a pedestal or a mother of humankind. Paradoxically,
to a great extent, horrendous sadistic has been inflicted on them and in most cases, with no
reason and justice. Though we are in the 21st C, the women status has not changed yet. The
stagnation is mostly facilitated by the biases that exist within the traditions in the society (Eitzen,
Zinn & Smith, 2013).
Masculinity and feminism are based on the cultural and social conditions. Many of the
sociological write-ups provide us with a glimpse the enable us to understand how the gender
inequality can be reconstituted in every interaction between men and women. Although, when
you try to understand gender cultural or interactional basis, you will never avoid the way
different shapes influence the character of individuals within the society. The interaction is
expected to be linked to gender inequality status that exercises power around the empathy, caring
and nurturing. In this case, we expect men and women to be ethical responsible in working place.
The expectation may act as the engine in propelling the recreation of gender inequality between
men and women in the society. On the same line, what is reproduced and produced within the
households specialization of work, is the dominant and the subordinate of gender inequality.
Laws, conventions and treaties have tried to equalize the rights of women and men
globally. Despite their interventions, discrimination still continues and the negative perception
towards women remains unchanged. Gender inequality and the rights in the whole world is
among the highly per vase nevertheless in misleading the consistency forms of the inequality In

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this case policies and legislation together with the cultural practices combine to achieve a similar
goal. This proves the argument on how the organizations cannot be segregated from each other.
Moreover, cultural practices, beliefs and the religion together play a pivotal function in trying to
influence the behaviour of the individuals with distinguished gender aspects (Makama,2013).
According to (White,2017), the ideologies of man God is what has propagated the subordination
of women within the societies. Many religions have explained God as male and not female.
Islamic, Judaism and Christianity have demonstrated that Adam was created before Eve. The
belief has been interpreted by many societies as men being superior to women. Therefore,
gender inequality is the interest of each member of the society and it creates the basis of justice.
The gender inequality and the rights of women play a key part in establishing prosperity and
peace in the society. Gender inequality in the past years has seen a significant growth. It has
established the fact that a woman represents a key role in the development of any society. Hence
a social transformation needs to take place (Karpowitz, Mendelberg & Shaker,2012).
Women rights have been put into concern for a very long time through their point of
attraction was recently recognized. Within the period of few years, many changes are seen taking
place in the law. These changes mostly favour the women in the society. The laws favour and
acknowledges them, but also protect them from exploitation. The women movement in the whole
world main concerns is on the legal equalities. For instance, countries like India, a woman was
considered as an oppressed individual within the society and neglected for decades (Blau,2016).
The gender injustice can be compared with the equal equation of power. The patriarchal
societies consider a woman to be a houseworker. In the modern world, legal laws have been
introduced and awareness made about the advantages of women in the society. Though the law
and the awareness, a great number of men today have recognized the negative impact of all