Robert Stoller's Concept Of Gender Inequality

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The concept of gender inequality appeared in the 1960-1970s because of a non-feminist movement that emerged in the West. This movement has changed the idea of gender relations with the purpose of providing and trying to find a model for equal opportunities both for women and men.

The inequality between men and women in the modern state and society – is a big problem. The equality of the two genders as a principle is revealed through the content of the rights, freedom and duties, responsibilities of both men and women. The Constitution does not contain selective provisions: "Male and Female have the same rights,such as freedom and equal opportunities for their realisation." However, unfortunately, legal equality - is not actual equality, as it carries out in different ways and, furthermore, it is also measured in different ways depending on the moral, legal as well as cultural criterias.

Discrimination of women nowadays is a big issue and it cannot be left unnoticed. Even when laws and policies are not discriminative against women, then the problem will be found during the real social practices.

It is believed that American psychologist Robert Stoller brought the idea “gender”. He , considered gender as an idea that expresses the psychological, …show more content…

Gender inequality prevents the development of society, which is confirmed by the following negative consequences: rising prosperity and management costs, reduced productivity and slowing down economic growth. For example, the loss of high child mortality and morbidity, a low level of immunization of children as it is clearly linked to the mother 's level of education with the mother 's level of income and/or with the level of independence of the mother. A striking example of a recent global report of human development describes the situation in Pakistan, where there is inequality in education due to gender that has led economic growth constantly

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