My Theory Of Discrimination (Discrimination Against Women)
Many centuries ago, women were seen to be inferior in terms of physical fitness and education level compared to men. As this discrimination continues to develop over the years across many countries, it becomes a more controversial issue on not only how women’s rights are to be protected, but also the improvement in women’s status in the modern society. As such, this deep rooted problem has resulted in differences that are difficult to reach to a consensus among all the parties involved. In a nutshell, how has this discrimination affected women, for example, education and employment? Has such discrimination affected women to have a share in the society?
In the early 1930s of German under Hitler’s rule, discrimination against women was very distinctive. German girls under the age of twenty one were to undergo training in preparation for motherhood whereas the boys were preparing for military warfare. In addition, workforces were discouraged from employing women that were to cater to men’s needs. This has shown Germany’s stand of seeing women as the weak gender and placing such importance on men over women in the past not only occurred in her, but also in a developing nation like Islamabad in Pakistan.
Today, most of these females are deprived of having the same education level with males. For example, Asma who is a thirteen year old Islamabad girl is in grade four while other boys of her same age are in grades eight. Not only that, most other girls like Asma are also in a same situation as her and they also have to prepare for motherhood just like past German girls. The evident “benefits” given to the females are too superficial that women assume they are fulfilling the tasks of what women should accomplish instead of striving for what they want.
In the developed cities like America, statistics show that men have a higher probability of earning PhDs than women. Though there is a flexibility of the increase in number of female graduates applying for PhDs, this flexibility is limited where there has to be more males than females by a fixed percentage. Such discrimination of women in the education system still continues to exist, but at a small impact compared to the previous case studies.
To tackle such discrimination isn’t neither an overnight’s work nor effortless. Various governments should relax the restrictions placed on women’s admission to schools and universities where men and women of the same age should be at the same education level. Not only the government, the mass media and education have the most influencing power where they should promote gender equalities on how such can be done. To allow these measures to be successful on the long run can be time consuming and labourious but how well can it really eliminate the problem of discrimination against women is still an unknown.
In the early 1930s of German under Hitler’s rule, discrimination against women was very distinctive. German girls under the age of twenty one were to undergo training in preparation for motherhood whereas the boys were preparing for military warfare. In addition, workforces were discouraged from employing women that were to cater to men’s needs. This has shown Germany’s stand of seeing women as the weak gender and placing such importance on men over women in the past not only occurred in her, but also in a developing nation like Islamabad in Pakistan.
Today, most of these females are deprived of having the same education level with males. For example, Asma who is a thirteen year old Islamabad girl is in grade four while other boys of her same age are in grades eight. Not only that, most other girls like Asma are also in a same situation as her and they also have to prepare for motherhood just like past German girls. The evident “benefits” given to the females are too superficial that women assume they are fulfilling the tasks of what women should accomplish instead of striving for what they want.
In the developed cities like America, statistics show that men have a higher probability of earning PhDs than women. Though there is a flexibility of the increase in number of female graduates applying for PhDs, this flexibility is limited where there has to be more males than females by a fixed percentage. Such discrimination of women in the education system still continues to exist, but at a small impact compared to the previous case studies.
To tackle such discrimination isn’t neither an overnight’s work nor effortless. Various governments should relax the restrictions placed on women’s admission to schools and universities where men and women of the same age should be at the same education level. Not only the government, the mass media and education have the most influencing power where they should promote gender equalities on how such can be done. To allow these measures to be successful on the long run can be time consuming and labourious but how well can it really eliminate the problem of discrimination against women is still an unknown.
Bibliography
µ IRINnews, Focus on gender differences in education (2003)
http://www.irinnews.org/print.asp?ReportID=36188
µ APSNewsOnline, The Back Page (2000)
http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~georgi/women/backpage.htm
µ Nigel Kelly, Paul Shuter (2003), The Rise of Nazism in Germany -
Social Control Through Education; Longman Publications
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