Bation, Reniel James P.

BSEE 1-2
ASSESSMENT NO. 2: GENDER INEQUALITY

Gender inequality can be defined as having different opportunities for people because of

perceived differences based solely on gender issues. The prejudicial treatment due to gender by

an individual or party. The institutions in our society can permeate gender inequalities. Gender

inequalities can cause by gender stereotyping, that in our society there’s a quote that “ladies’

first” that ladies should have the privilege to be the first.

For the role of the family in permeating the gender inequalities is, for example, having

inequalities in household chores, that the society says that women are more capable doing

household chores than men, and also for having a work-family conflict which is the men should

provide for the family because he should be the “provider”. The assumption that the tension

between work and family is triggered by the permeability between the scope of family and work

is well known. Using a questionnaire, Javier Serato and Eva Cirfre's correlational study was

performed on 515 subjects (63% males) from two different groups of Spanish males and females

without an emotional connection with their heterosexual partner. The goal of their correlational

analysis is to validate that the unequal participation of men and women in household chores is

related to the increased conflict in the work-family between women and men; the findings are

also drawn from data from gender studies. Firstly, as predicted, the findings indicate a

differential involvement of women and men in household chores, as it is higher in women than in

men, and the perception of partner involvement is lower in women than in men. Secondly, these

differential engagements relate disproportionately to men and women in varying aspects of

working-family relationship. This work-family conflict permeating the gender inequalities in the

family.

Women in developed nations lag well behind men because of the role of schooling in

permeating gender inequality. The enrolment rates for tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa

are just a third of those for men. Women are very underrepresented in science and technological

research, even in industrial countries. Disparities are not spontaneous in educational attainment

and achievement. Nor can these inequalities be dealt with only through acts within education.

Rather, they are also embedded in profound social disparities in communities that define the

opportunities for education for boys and girls, men and women. Also, political and legal

commitments to gender equality, which are meant to provide political transparency for the

defense of human rights, including the right to education for all, can be undermined by existing

norms. Gender norms are laws that apply to men and women differently, dictating desired

attitudes or characteristics (Heslop, 2016). They are focused on relationships of dominance and

conventional conceptions of male and female roles and positions in society. They shape social

attitudes, actions and practices, impact laws and policies, and resist educational improvements.

Unless the negative gender roles, beliefs and traditions that permeate the very structure of certain

communities are challenged, women will continue to face prejudice, prohibiting them, as well as

boys and men in certain situations, from exercising their right to education.

Religion has its role in permeating gender inequality, there are gender conceptions that

are influenced by religious interpretations and often create room for the continuous reduction of

women's involvement in the public sphere, especially in politics. It argues that the intervention

and propagation of patriarchal interests, maintained by religious fundamentalism and tacitly

reinvented in most religious doctrines, forms the basis for women's marginalization. According
to Chidiebere James Onwutuebe, that the religious interpretations of some parts of the Holy

Books fuel traditional narratives about the submission of women to men. Nevertheless,

especially in recent times, some of these religious texts and dogma have become strongly

contested. Nevertheless, the maintenance of patriarchy, especially through religious

fundamentalism, also greatly affects the continuity of unequal gender relations. This supports the

argument that the social tools by which cultural norms, beliefs, ideals, and desires are conveyed

into the public space are religious interpretations. The cultural influence of patriarchy has had a

profound impact on religious interpretations with respect to gender relations and has extended

patriarchal hegemony in many cultures. Many Christian and Islamic leaders have in the realms of

faith, politics and governance, economic ownership, and socio-cultural issues, for example,

embraced teachings and dogma that declared women as minors. In an effort to perpetuate the

institution of patriarchy, these types of religious interpretations frequently repeat some parts of

religious texts while ignoring other regions. Certain religious scriptures, which explicitly define

and justify the essence of social relations between men and women that should be promoted,

often go unnoticed.

As long-lasting norms, principles and standards of ethics that find meaning in rituals,

customs and cultural activities, informal and formal rules, societal structures such as families,

schooling and religion have a role to play in permeating gender inequalities. These norms, values

and codes of conduct may make our society better or break our society.
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