Gender Inequality Issues

A group of researchers from Cornell University, Ellis, Fosdick, and Rasmussen (2015) analyzed that while controlling for academic preparedness, career intentions, and instruction, a woman is 1.5 times more likely than men to be discouraged from continuing calculus and further pursuing STEM fields for academics and professional fields. They further analyzed that such the main factor behind such dissuasion is lack of math confidence instead of their ability in math (para

Throughout American history, women have requested and demanded to achieve recognition for having the same legitimacy as men. Naturally born rights, such as access to equal education, and the right to speak out in public were denied to females. Perhaps, the most powerful right they were denied was the right to vote. Though women were considered inferior and given limited roles in society, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Carry Nation played a crucial role in the movement for women’s rights. Women did not achieve this right immediately, but that did not stop them from fighting.

Our independent variable would be the external factors that affect a student’s commitment to a degree program in their first year of college. The dependent variable would be the lack of gender equity in the number of men and women who choose to study a STEM field. Although female students make up 54% of all university students, only a small percentage of these females study the STEM courses compared to the males. Female students account for the larger number of students enrolling into higher institutions, but there is still a very low entry into STEM courses, and this is going to bring about a decline in the total number of students entering into STEM courses in the future. According to the report Online Learning Platform Finds What It Calls a "Gender Confidence Gap" in STEM Fields women tend to suffer from low self-esteem which contributes to their lack of equal presence in the job market, lack of pay equity, and lower

Pew Research (2008) and Patten and Parker (2012) asserted that F500 leaders should explicate the benefits and consequences of gender barriers to practitioners to pave the way for its resolution. The authors reported that as of 2013, less than four percent of CEOs in the U.S. F500s were women. Although, 2014 saw an increase of this percentage to 5.2%, the rate of growth was below research projections. The report attributed the slow growth of women's advancement to a partial implementation of gender-gap corrective measures by management stakeholders, thereby jeopardizing the targeted ratios (Catalyst, 2013; Fortune 500, 2013; Leahey, Fairchild, & Zarya, 2013). Moreover, non-compliance with the remedial gender practices initiated by regulators and practitioners accounted for the continued diversity gaps.

The success that occurred during the Gilded Age, were not so great, at first many women were not allow an education, but throughout time, many organizations open their doors to women, to be able to provide education opportunity to their communities. What I believe still has to be done is that many more colleges have to develop to assist many more women a proper education including: African American, Whites and Mexicans. By having a proper school system. Today this is still seen today, many women are being discrimination of the color of their skin, Today undocumented students, including men and women are being pushed away, for not being a US Citizen. These groups of student are fighting and protesting for their rights for an education.

Some believe that feminism isn 't around anymore or it doesn 't have a meaning in today 's culture. Everyone has a different outlook on this subject due to different emotions, and associations with the past experiences, they feel the need to describe feminism as only a women’s right movement. Thus leading to the typical meaning of feminism. The meaning of equality for all sexes is not the definition society sees but in years to come will the past still define

With the latter two categories not in favour of equality then the only remaining category, if you are in favour of equality, is feminism. Misandrist feminist beliefs have negative ideas that men should suffer for their past suppression of women. This deters many people from labeling themselves as feminists. Sandra Kim addresses this in her article “How Most Things You Know About Feminists Are Vicious Conservative Lies”: Misrepresentations of feminism are so powerful that many progressives and liberals today don’t necessarily want to self-identify as a feminist even when they believe in what feminism stands for. They don’t want women or anyone else to be abused, raped, exploited and discriminated against.

Women should feel the freedom to be who they truly want to be and not let others tell them how they should be. Everyday women are pressured and terrified to show their true selves because of these stereotypes and false feminine beliefs . Women have values that they are pressured to hide. Orenstein just wants that all to change. Nobody is perfect and the stereotypes people place on one another is the cause of most of the issues women face today.

According to Jacobs (1996), literatures based on gender inequalities “often treats all aspects of education disadvantaging women”. However one could argue against Jacobs’ statement that women today are seen to achieve more advantages in education and a reversal in roles between men and women in education is evident in some areas (Buchmann, Diprete and McDaniel, 2007). Women can and do achieve success in education as well as men do. The preconceived idea that females achieve less than their male counterparts has been argued against by studies showing that female motivation and determination to succeed in education equals or often surpasses male achievement (Mickelson, 1989). According to Treiman and Terrell (1975) women’s status in society was based upon the success of their husband and therefore education was seen as less important for women to achieve than their spouses, education was thought to be a luxury for women rather than a right like it was thought to be for men.

Low education rates are a cause of child mortality. Education is so vital to mothers and if the mother is educated it is twice as likely that the child will be put in school (CARE). When girls are able to go to school safely they can create a brighter future for themselves and for everyone around them. Education lifts people out of poverty and promotes economic growth. “It is an investment in economic growth, a healthier workforce, lasting peace and the future of our planet” (Malala Fund).

Black women are disadvantaged to white women in ways that might affect their work force outcomes: they have lower levels of education, they are more likely to be unmarried parents, and they are focused on nontechnical jobs (Pettit and Ewert 2009). Therefore, black women may be lacking social and economic characteristics compared to white women in the labor force. Growth in the wage gap by education can help explain the wage declines of black women. Black women are more likely to drop out of high school than white women, therefore less black women attend college or even complete college. Although black women’s education has increased since the 80s, employed white women were over 13% more likely to have attended college.

“Some women accepted their status, but many rebelled against it, More and more women came to realize that, in order to be effective social reformers they would first need to acquire legal rights as women.” (The women’s rights) After the women had realized that they needed the legal rights, they tried everything to get those rights, but the men did not like the idea of their women or any women having rights to do anything. Especially to vote. They hated that they wanted their own legal rights and tried anything to convince them different. The idea of their lady have an opinion or any rights made them sick to their stomachs. Power with a women was not a good idea to them.

But, does gender really matter to influence a person’s future trajectory? “Missing in Interaction”, written by Myra and David Sadker, is an article to discuss why girls are invisible in schools. With the studies in elementary schools, the authors conclude that “gender segregation is a major contributor to female invisibility”. Teachers would like to spend more time and attention on male students because they are full of vitality and creativity; whereas, teachers only say OK to female students since they do not care about girls’ achievement on academic. In their minds, a woman is hard to be an excellent scientist or engineering even though female students’ scores are better than male students’.

Blank and Berg cite words from Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner say that intelligence is different for everyone and that everyone has their own way to comprehend and benefit from their experiences. The authors of this article, also found that minority students living in poverty stricken areas were more likely to have trouble keeping up with the higher income families in the area which caused a gap in the attempt to strive for academic achievement. It was also found that the mother 's education was a key predictor of the child 's success and that families more involved in their child 's education were more likely to perform better(Blank and Berg). This lead to a problem though because nobody really had a plan on how to fix this problem. It also lacked a history of why this started to happen in schools around the nation.

Feminism has long challenged the societal norms for women, giving them liberation in clothing and thoughts. Some people believe that to be a feminist is to hate men but they are wrong, feminism is to seek equality. Most of the ideas and goals of feminism stay the same no matter which wave of feminism is being looked at. This generation of feminism, known as the fourth wave, is focused most on challenging misogyny and sexism where it exists (Feminism). One movement has shown up in response to the fourth wave feminists called the Men’s Rights Movement; this movement seeks to belittle feminists.