Category: Gender

Nike’s ‘Equality’ campaign speaks up against discrimination: gender, color and race. Globally known under its popular slogans: “Opportunity should not discriminate”; “the ball should bounce the same for everyone”; “equality should have no boundaries”, the firm has been built upon a strong belief and ideal that individuals are defined by their endeavor and accomplishment, and…

From birth until death societal structure provides individuals with acceptable and unacceptable behaviours in society based on whether they are male or female (Dietert & Dentice, 2009). As per 2011 Indian census it was reported that total population of transgender is around 4.88 lakh (Transgender in India, 2011). Despite this, there is little research in…

Gender inequality is in fact a major issue of today. For human beings there is no essential femaleness or maleness, femininity or masculinity, womanhood or manhood, but once gender is ascribed, the social order constructs and holds individuals to strongly gendered norms and expectations, therefore creating inequality. We could clearly construct gender to allow us…

Course Description This course analyzes multiple forms of social oppression and inequality based on race (and color), sex (and gender), sexual orientation (and identity), and class in the United States. It will examine systemic aspects of social oppression in different periods and contexts and the ways that systems of social oppression manifest themselves on individual,…

In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, James Thurber introduces to us the life of the estranged middle-aged chronic daydreamer, Walter Mitty. The overbearing wife, Mrs. Mitty, is portrayed mainly through her daily dialogues with Mitty, whose disdainful image is deepened by the gender attributes of the females existing in Mitty’s fantasy. This essay argues…

There are many diverse identity groups like race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation within our society. From those many identity groups gender is the most easily identifiable and common identity group in our society. The most recognized gender in our society is male and female. Male and Female are different in many physical and emotional…

In the 1950’s women were given the role of wife and mother. They were expected to cook and clean. Even today some of the inequalities from the past shine through in clothes, colors, and taxes. Some women are only making 77% of what men are making and paying for more taxes on necessity items. Gender…

Nowadays in society, people were tend to judge other by stereotypes how we portray ourselves to others with our appearance base on how we groom, communicate, actions and gender roles. There are different traits of how men and women were portray: Firstly, women have to stay at home to do housework, taking care of the…

Introduction: “Who is a man and who is a woman, are we not same?” Gender has always received much more importance in our societies, in the workplace and even in homes. Inequality recognizes that men and women are not equal and that gender influences an individual’s life experience. These differences derive from distinctions in biology,…

It was only over the past three to four decades that the role of women within the academic world began to be recognized. Their role and participation in our country started to be recognized about three to four decades ago but up until then, there were professions as well as matters that were considered off-limit…