The Woman's condition in The Victorian AGE-mind map

   ESSAY GENDER EQUALITY

Schema da seguire

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) -leaders in gender equality

6) 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 from gender based violence, 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