The article I read discusses the wage gap between genders, and how, if narrowed, it can increase the money going into the global economy. the article goes on to discuss the 15 indicators of gender equality for a wide array of groups in 95 countries. The countries were then measured for their distance from gender parity. Western Europe was 0.71 meaning it was 0.29 from 1, which is the perfect score. That means that even more developed countries still have a big gap for gender parity. The article continued to say that if countries around the world would improve there inequality between genders, then the GDP will rise because of the narrow gap, and more opportunities will arise.
This article reminded me if Susan Moller Okin's complaint on Gender inequality. She said that family life is unequal, meaning that a man and a woman are not treated the same, and that things need to change. I believe that Okin is right in that statement, however the plausibility of the gender gap narrowing is unplausible because, sadly, the world is not taking steps to improve the equality. women are being told that they belong in certain jobs that dont use too much strength or brains. This is similar to women in Military roles. they are being restricted or coerced into not being in direct combat, because they are supposedly physically weaker than men, which is not always the case. I believe that we need to work on bringing the gender parity gap closer so that at least the education worldwide provided for women and men can be increased.
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Anchal,
ReplyDeleteDo you agree with Okin's supposed solution to this problem (the family) or do you think we should take another route?
Professor Shirk,
ReplyDeleteI do agree with Okin's solution to fixing the inequality of gender. Okin believes that every family should be just, and i do agree with her when she says that we need to legalize and accept certain things. The way things are going currently, I do believe that in the future we can have a significant change in acceptances, however currently the government seems to have more "important" things that they are addressing, so the plausibility of anything happen right now is very low.
I see Okin's point in that we need to first fix how women are treated in the family and then later this will reflect on our society. It seems that everyone get their first concepts of right and wrong from their families. As a result they see how the gender roles in their families are displayed and learn from there and take it into the real world. If we make the gender roles less rigidly seen in the family and make people more accepting and remove the idea of the patriarchal family then I do think that those ideas could eventually transfer into society.
ReplyDeleteI agree that family needs to do included in politics or at least political thinking because our parents are out first teachers. The formations of all our beliefs and idea come from them before we get formal education. I think including family in politics would help gender equality and gender neutrality a plausible outcome.
ReplyDeleteI agree that family should be apart of politics. I question how you could try to keep family separate from politics if policies affect them. I think that sometimes policies have to be inputted in order to change the inequality imbalances within our society. I agree that this is the case for inequality for women, minorities, and those of the lgbtq community as well.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is almost impossible to keep family and politics separate, so instead children should be educated from a young age on topics such as equality. It's much more sensible to teach kids about equality than to try and have college-age student unlearn years of racist or sexist beliefs that they learned from their parents.
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