Gender Inequality

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Gender Inequality

Introduction

Many sociologists argue that a person's gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or class impacts his or her life in substantial ways. Today we are living in the world of social advancements and modernization. The world should provide the level playing field for everyone in the society regardless of the gender. However, what we have witnessed today with regard to the gender discrimination is still indicating that we have a long way to go towards the modern society which should provide the equilibrium to both men and women. The gender discrimination can be observed in any civil society in many ways, which hinders especially the women from moving economic and social progress which is always the result of victimization of out dated traditions and norms of the society .If we talk about the social discrimination against sex and gender then it would take decades to discuss this issue and despite that one would not be able to reach a conclusion because this topic is so diverse and broad. Social discrimination involves a number of grounds. In a society, gender discrimination can be done indifferent place such as health sector, workplace.

Discussion

The Culture of Gender, which makes one male or female

Attributes and behavior that is associated with men or women, and relationship between men and women are shaped by Culture. In other words, culture shapes gender. Culture shapes genders identities and gender relations because, it does not only shapes daily life of individual but also shape overall society. The function of Gender (like ethnicity or race) is to organize principles for community. Culture gives meaning to being female or male. For example, division of labor is according to gender. In western societies, a clear pattern of “women's work” and “men's work” is practicing. However, some societies are against to “women's work”. The explanations and patterns create the difference among cultures of different societies (Ore, 2011, p. 97).

Theorists' Belief

A sexologist John Money described the terminological dissimilarity between biological sex and social construct of genders in 1955. Multicultural Counsels claims that genders are constructed socially, while biological theorists argue that biology of people depends upon their sex. Biological theorist provides evidence on the basis of human biology that creates a difference in genders. Body shape is also responsible for the activities and the behavior of people. Genes and Chromosomal difference mutate the attributes of people (Ore, 2011, p. 106).

However, multicultural counseling prefers that society and culture develop the behavior that create the difference between genders. The norms and values are influenced on living style of people. Biologist says that characters and traits are based on arrangement of chromosome and genes while multicultural counseling argues that most of traits and characters are not present at the time of birth. People learn from their society. Personality depends upon genes, but it is also depended on society. Human is a social animal and this willingness to be with other people, makes them socialized (Ore, 2011, p. 108).

A number of psychological studies have focused on the factors which ...