Essays on Gender Equality

“If you educate a man educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate an entire family” Mahatma Gandhi “That country and that nation which doesn’t respect women will never become great now and nor will ever in future” Swami Vivekananda These are...

In the early 1800s women were not seen as equals. When it came to women having an important part in society, other women were fearful of that. Work was being done around the world, but it took many decades to finally see a change in...

In many stories’ authors will write about the society they live in, especially when major controversy surrounds them. I believe an author whether it is intentional or not, will add these social commentaries into their writings. Stories are often filled with stereotypes and social commentary...

In our society, how do we deal with the problem of sexism in classical music? Why have there been no great female classical composers? Why throughout music history textbooks is emphasis only placed on Western, male composers and not on celebrating diversity in classical music...

It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision. In the past, discrimination between men and women was widespread in all areas of society. Gender inequality can, therefore, be the obstacle of women to work in society. Gender inequality in the labor...

Throughout the course of our history, gender roles in the family have undergone a variety of changes. For the most part, each person in the family served to have a role and was in charge of a certain aspect of the family, in order for...

The defeat of Germany in WWI politically brought about not only the Weimar Republic but also the emersion of what historians will call the “new woman”. Many historians argue three explanations for why and how this political and intellectual prominent figure of the “new woman”...

During the Roman times, women were always under the rule of men. The Romans had the strong belief that all women, regardless their status or age, were characterized by a general inborn incapacity of the female gender. Therefore, the Roman family was male-dominated, and men...

In her feminist Novel So long A letter, Mariama Ba uses the protagonist of Ramatoulaye and her close friend Aissatou, in order to convey her messages of the criticism of culture and religion and subsequently the implications it has on the society and women in...

Considered to be one of those novels which add a feminine voice to the highly masculine accounts on Africa’s pre and post-independent era, Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter intimately discusses the conditions of women in Senegal. In a letter to her best friend Aissatou,...