Need of gender equality for sustainable development. Gender equality is also a key driver of the degree of self-reported well-being and happiness across the world and life satisfaction increases over time as gender equality increases (Veenhoven, 2011 and 2012). An enabling legal and policy environment has long been identified as critical to improving women’s economic and social outcomes (OECD Development Centre, 2010 and World Bank, 2011). According to Jones (2010), “While recent decades have seen
Abstract: The term ‘Dalit’ refers to the people of India who are outside the pale of the hierarchal caste system, and, therefore deemed outcastes and a Dalit Woman’s life is the most unprotected and insecure in Indian Society. They suffer on three counts – caste, gender and patriarchy. But, after centuries of suppression, Dalits are now finding their voice, in literature as well as through political activism. Dalit autobiographies, where the routinized violence of everyday existence are described, may
One second, two seconds, three seconds go by and women are already underneath the average male. Over several decades, females made significant strides to be seen as equals in comparison to men. From voting rights to job opportunities, women continue to break barriers between gender inequalities. The pay gap is a current controversial topic in which females hope to earn the same salaries as their male counterparts if they do not do so already. Whether this gap exists or not is debatable and differs
poverty with women rather than gender relations and to highlight women as a victim rather than agents. In recent years, feminization of poverty (FP) has become a common term in development lexicon and it is now widely viewed as a global trend across developing countries. Various researcher and policymakers has been measuring poverty by income privation, rather than grassroots experience and trying to prove that poverty is feminizing. In her book, Gender, Generation and Poverty; Sylvia Chant (2007)
Gender equality is an important topic in the US; it comes with important policies to bring equality among people, simultaneously propagating and educating the younger generation to change perceptions, thinking of the in society. Gender equality is an important goal not only toward the US, but also the most developed countries around the world, the criteria for evaluating the development of a society. According to the concept of the United Nations, the mean equality of individuals regardless of gender
"Flatland" by Edwin Abbot presents a whole new world that leaves one to ponder about higher powers to life and alternate dimensions. The unique book provides for different methods of exposing and critiquing. Social criticism in the book (gender, irregularity, or hierarchies) play a part in the dimension within the society. The rare combination of mathematics in writing issue distinctions and rankings at least the same, if not, far more than what any newspaper or journalist do. Abbot utilizes
fail to notice. I thoroughly took note of specific social interactions and cultural norms that stuck out to me, and these came across in a mostly negative way. By far the most common types of interactions I experienced were related to the concepts of gender, sexuality, and nationality. In each of these topics, the individuals I observed had a personal identity thrust upon them, instead of being able to embody
girls are raised in provide contexts in which they act regarding conversation, conflict, and connection. In her text, Tannen references a study performed by Amy Sheldon (p.22) where the moderator videotaped three- and four-year old boys and girls playing at a daycare center. Each group of three that played together ended up fighting over a plastic pickle. Tannen notes from Sheldon’s study that “the girls mitigated the conflict and preserved harmony by compromise and evasion” while the boys, who fought
The local government is divided into three layers: provinces, municipalities, and independent cities where each local government unit (LGU) has an elected chief of governors, mayors, and barangay captains, respectively (Manasan, 2004). Through the Local Government Code of 1991, the provision of basic services to their constituents and generation of revenues for their targeted expenditures were tasked to LGUs (The Local Government Code of the Philippines, 1991), consequently giving them greater financial
of situations. Even though the novel was written a long time ago, prejudice still happens in this new era of globalization. This should not be happening as we are same, we are human race. There are three types of discriminations that can be found in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird such as racial, gender and social class. The most significant