Gender and Social Inequality: Causes, Impact, and Solutions

Health and Social Science
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Table of Contents
Health and Social Science................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
What is gender and social inequality...........................................................................................3
Gender socialization.....................................................................................................................4
Masculinity and femininity..........................................................................................................4
Theories related to gender and inequalities.................................................................................5
Gender roles in past and contemporary society...........................................................................5
Discrimination based on gender along with laws and their impact.............................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Gender inequality can be defined as behaviours and different attitude of people towards
males and females. When people do not treat and give equal opportunities to people only because
of basis of gender is known as gender inequality (Grusky, 2019). In Gender and social inequality,
people believe that females are less likely to perform functions as like males and it affects their
living experience. This present study is going to show inequalities on the basis of gender and
views of societies in this context as how their behaviour affect performance of females. It will
also show effectiveness of action and sociology theories which can help people in promoting
equality and eliminating discrimination. It will also show some negative effects which
discrimination on the basis of gender have of people as it affects their mental and physical health
to the great extent. Lastly, this study will show importance of relevant laws like anti
discrimination, human rights, gender equality and others which encourage people to respect each
other and treat in an equal manner.
What is gender and social inequality
Social inequality refers unequal opportunities to people of societies like unequal and
different rewards, unequal employment opportunities, different social position in society. There
are some examples of social inequality and one of the main factor which cause and lead social
inequality is income gap, access to healthcare and gender inequality. There are some people in
societies who receive better opportunities and professional care as compare to others and it
happens mainly because of cast, ethnicity and income. Those people in the sociality who have
effective income, they are more likely to have better position in the society and those people in
the society whose income is not effective they get fewer opportunities in society and some
societal activities (HOURS, 2019).
In addition, gender inequality can be defined as unequal treatment and behaviours of
people towards others on the basis of gender. It mainly arises from differences in socially
constructed gender roles. There are several females who have experienced this feeling of
inequality at workplace and society only because of their gender. One of the main example of
gender and social inequality is Ellen Pao, who is now an American investor and co founded
diversity consulting non-profit organization. She stated that she was discriminated at workplace
and were given fewer opportunities only because of her gender (Lörz and Mühleck, 2019).
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