Category: Gender

We humans of the 21st century live in a universe of diverse types of people, belonging to different backgrounds, races, and gender. Now we often hear the word gender Inequality or Gender Discrimination, but what is it actually? By the book, it means “The unfair rights between male and female based on different gender roles…

The gender roles play an important part in Seven Against Thebes and the differences in our cultures from Greek culture. The gender roles differ greatly from today’s standards. To better understand Aeschylus’ play, differences in ways of thinking must be taken into account. The chorus starts out lamenting, near hysterical, and disordered. After Eteokles accused…

In society, the roles and responsibilities of women and men are socially determined and it is called ‘gender’. The phenomenon of gender varies from society to society in different times. It is certain that gender inequality is a huge issue from past to present especially occurs among women. The beliefs and cultural values adopted by…

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…

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…

Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” emerges as a captivating tapestry of symbolism, intricately woven with layers of hidden meanings that extend beyond the surface narrative. Through meticulous details and nuanced descriptions, Glaspell beckons readers into a realm where symbols become gateways to profound insights, delving into themes of gender roles, justice, and the…

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,…

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,…

Neither a man nor a woman, still a human being? The stigma attached to the sub-human, hijras, in our society, receives neither the opportunity to support themselves nor given the identity of a human. The absolutely key effigy that enters our mind when we think of eunuchs (hijras), is a male-bodied feminine-persona. History of a…