Essay Does gender equality exist today and how far? (scheme to be followed)

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Essay 

Does gender equality exist today and how far?

1)What is gender equality?

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/5_Why-It-Matters-2020.pdf

Article 23 - Equality between women and men EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

https://fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charter/article/23-equality-between-women-and-men

2) SOURCE???? Social norms- socially-constructed roles (traditionally…..what’s considered to be proper for men and women?....stereotypes……)

2) Education- one quarter of girls in the developing countries don’t go to school (Malala Yousafzai, a life spent fighting for the right to education)

https://www.unesco.org/en/gender-equality/education

Emma Watson’s speech for gender equality in 2014 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkjW9PZBRfk

Positive effects……raise a smaller family, have healthier children, earn an income, participate in the political process                                                                                                                               3) Workplace- job discrimination (me too movement)

 

                          Low income……..even being fired ……                                                                             

4)Politics- underrepresented as decision makers

5) Norway, Finland, Sweden---leaders in gender equality

6) Middle East  (Iran and Afghanistan) and South Africa countries ----Gender based violence/Gender gap----in some countries women can’t be the owners of  land

7) The right to vote----1838 New Zealand, 1894 Australia, 1906 Finland, 1907 Norway, 1920 USA (when did women start becoming equal to men?)

8) In the UK Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) became involved in women's suffrage in 1880. She was the founder  of the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union) in 1903…. 

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/overview/startsuffragette-/

In the UK 1918 married women, female householders and female university graduates being 30 got the right to vote

1928 full suffrage in the UK

CONCLUSION

 What does gender equality mean???? What should be done to end gender inequality? SHOULD we do something else…..or do we have gender equality nowadays?

Protect women both  from gender based violence and sexual exploitation, grant basic human rights, gender balance in the workplace, empowerment of women and girls (encourage women into non traditional vocations)

 

Gender equality -key words

Discrimination

Empowerment

Gender balance

Gender-based constraints

Gender-based violence

Gender gap

Gender roles

Patriarchy