What does “gender equality” really mean? While a person’s sex refers to the biological differences between a male and a female, gender distinguishes the roles a person’s community considers appropriate for women and men. Therefore, gender roles, inequities, and power imbalances are not a “natural” result of biological differences, but are determined by the systems and cultures in which we live. In spite of the fact that there are international laws guaranteeing women equal rights with men, women in many places around the world are denied their rights to land and property, financial resources, employment, and education.
ACTIVITY: did you know? Please, comment the following sentences:
•.It is estimated that women perform two-thirds of the world’s work, yet they only earn one-tenth of the income, and own less than one percent of the world’s property.
•.More than 110 million of the world’s children, two-thirds of them girls, are not in school.
•.Only 17% of the world’s elected government leaders are women.
•.More than 80% of the world’s 35 million refugees and displaced people are women and children
I think that we use the woman like an object and without her, humans will desapear. There're big inequalities between men and women that have not justice because we are all people and we all can do the same things, but if we don't let women to improve their qualities, we won't ever know if they can do the same things as men do. I think that it's really bad to have this behaviour with women and we are doing a custom that we have to eliminate because, for example, women don't always have to work at home, but it's really difficult to change the thoughts of all people in the world.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion, there is a wrong opinion about women because they are a little bit discriminated. If a woman works in the construction or as a football´s refeer all the people think it is extrange because it has been a work that men always do. Another thing is that if a woman doesn´t go to the school, she will have serious problems in her life and it could be a bad thing to the society because this girl can be intelligent but she can´t go to the school. Actually, a woman called Angela Merkel is the president of Alemania and she is making good things to her country. It is an example of a woman that works in politics. In brief, women can do all type of things
ResponderEliminarFrom my point of view, we can't make a general opinion about gender equality all over the world. We should divide the world in developed and undeveloped countries.
ResponderEliminarI think that in developed countries (and overall, cities) women are reaching an equality. Even so, there's a long way to walk, and should fight (ALL PEOPLE: WOMEN AND MEN) to make a fairer world.
Well, I have nothing to say about undeveloped countries (with undeveloped, I don't mean only countries with no economic power: I also mean countries that doesn't respect human rights). Women are treated as an object, as Blanca said.
I think we should follow fighting for an egalitarian world!
I think that women are equals than men, but for thousands years, men have been more importants than women and now, we are "checking" that opinion and all people are working to achieve that women and men will be equals, but this is very diffcult because men dominate the world and they don't want leave her charge in government to give it to a woman. In my opinion, politics are a little bit sexists (machistas). For example, not only the politics are sexists, also Chinese people are sexists because they sometimes kill to her daughters (if she is her first child) because they don't want their surnames will be forgotten. Finally, I want to say that I wish that in the future, gender inequllity DOESN'T EXIST.
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ResponderEliminarI think that now in developed countries the iquality between men and women is more or less the same, but in some places the chauvinism and the gender difference are presents; it is caused, becuase in the past there was a big gender difference between men and women; for example: in the past the women haven´t got a work out their houses and they didn´t have high studies, so they were housewife and the men were that work out and won the money; thank goodness this is over!!
In underdeveloped countries there are gender difference in our days.
I think that women can do the same activities that men!
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ResponderEliminarFrom my point of view, I think that we are people and each one of us have bad and good things and we can't change it.
But on the other hand we have to fight for a better world, we have to make justice because women has to be equal than me. Women aren't a toy. People don't let women show us their good qualities. Everybody thinks: '' women only know cooking, do the ironing, and do several boring activities in their houses. ''
This doesn't mean that women have to not do anything; this means that not only women have to do it, also men have because in this universe all of us are EQUAL.
Unfortunately, most of the population don't think so...
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ResponderEliminarWell, I agree with all of my partners but, if we talk about the existence of us… the main character of it is the women for her reproductive system that allow us to be more humans in the world, so it´s too important to us in this aspect.
Talking about humans, women are not an object as some of us seem to compare with it. Women have qualities, and some of them, are better than the qualities of men. So, in this part, it´s very interesting.
Finally, I agree so much whit my partner Ana, that we have to fight together to get a better world, a world where you can respect women as the respect deserved.
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ResponderEliminarI think that all people, women and man, have the opportunity to work, to go to school... Because we are equals.
But now we haven't got this problem so much, but yet we have this discrimination.
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I think that women and men must to have the same opportunities. We can't use the women like an object, because it isnt't, and, without her, we will dessapear. In many countries the women is considerated only for take care of the houses, but if they allow the women do same things that men, it could be better!
ResponderEliminarFortunattely, in our country there isn't many discrimination to the women, but, in the countries that there is, it have to change.
Hello, yes I think the problems in that cases of gender inequality will not resolve until we change our form of thinking.
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