English 135 paper gender discrimination

Gender Discrimination

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10/05/2014

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Introduction

Men and women face great disparities in many areas of life. This biasness against one's gender is what is generally referred to as gender discrimination. Women face gender discrimination in different areas and in a number of ways. For instance, at the workplace, women are discriminated simply because they are women and are believed to be less endowed than men (Gregory, 2003). The question that we need to ask ourselves is who and what fuels gender discrimination in our societies?

My narrowed topic has its basis in women who are fighting for equal rights and opportunities to their male counterparts. These women are fighting day in day out to ensure that they are able to do all that men can do without limitations. The women expect men to perform household chores as they are also out in the job market and at the same time performing their household chores (Healey, 1993).

My primary audience will be people who really have no idea of what women go through in their daily lives. This is essentially the ones who understand what gender discrimination is. The people who will express willingness in reading my paper will also be an appropriate audience for my topic. This topic is very important as it helps in enlightening people about the various ways in which gender discrimination occurs as well as the people who are heavily impacted by gender discrimination (Gregory, 2003).

Thesis statement

Women have not been taking gender discrimination instances without fighting. There are various ways through which women have been taking gender discrimination instances with. Some of these ways include protesting and signing bills which advocate for equal treatment of women and men.

Problem analysis

Gender discrimination has been the vocabulary I nearly all the hearths of intelligent women and men. Women have been discriminated in the workplace, in public places as well as in their own homes. This has been an issue of concern and some women have risen to put this issue to a standstill. For instance, women face serious discrimination in the work place in terms of recruitment as well as compensation. Men are preferred to women due to their masculinity (Healey, 1993).

Gender discrimination dates back to the early ages where women were treated as less of men. During the early times, however, gender discrimination was a topic that was not raised until the emergence of movements, like the suffrage movement that pointed out on the injustices that women were going through in the society. Gender discrimination takes various aspects, and though impressive results have been achieved so far, there still exist big rates and cases of discrimination on the basis of gender especially where women are greatly side-lined (Gregory, 2003).

Causes of Gender Discrimination

One of the greatest causes of gender discrimination is the long and attached history and perception in every given society. The perception that women take a given form and can do certain things and cannot be capable of doing another is the background of gender discrimination. This has been and is hard to change since it is what generations have taken and absorbed to be true (Kraal, Roosblad, & Wrench, 2010).

The fact that men have gone on record for being dominant and more successful in certain things and delegating certain tasks better is a great cause of gender discrimination. The reality, and what has dawned to many is the fact and aspect that the female gender has been deprived various opportunities for quite a long period of time, but have the capability of delegating tasks and doing things just as men can do them (Kraal, Roosblad, & Wrench, 2010).

Effects of Gender Discrimination

One of the greatest effects of gender discrimination is the fact that increased productivity that would have been achieved if both genders were given and awarded equal opportunities ends up being lost. When the female gender is perceived to not be capable of doing certain things, which given an opportunity, she could do it better and more efficiently, then the opportunity to increase productivity ends up being lost.

A greater effect of gender discrimination is the fact that women end up losing on promotion opportunities in various positions, especially in top managerial positions since there are stereotypes that have been associated with them. This can be totally attributed to the fact that a given notion having been created and associated with the female gender (Healey, 1993).

Another effect of gender discrimination is the fact that families have ended up giving certain responsibilities to women and some to men. In assigning the responsibilities, the responsibilities that have been accorded to women are greater and can be considered to be unfair. Realistically, anyone can perform any task given an opportunity to, and provided they are dedicated. The assignment of specific responsibilities to specific genders has been a great source of conflict in families due to misunderstandings and misconceptions (Healey, 1993).