Do women have certain privileges over men?

Women are not always at a disadvantage. Sometimes, men are.

Women are more likely to win custody battles compared to men. Women will attain custody of their children 68-88% of the time whereas men will only receive custody 8-14%

BBC “Why more men kill themselves than women”

Authorities are more likely to believe assaults of women compared to that of men and it is treated more seriously. This is partly due to women having more case of assault compared to men. But it is still undeniably that man indeed do encounter cases of sexual assault, and we should not disregard or hinder their attempts at seeking outside help. Lack of domestic abuse shelters for men (public perception that men are supposed to be seen as abusers instead of being abused. Stereotype that they are the stronger and tougher of the sexes)

Gender inequality for men exists partly due to men not having enough access to mental healthcare. Depression or mental illness helpcare and helplines are inevitably catered and scaled towards women. When men have not not enough emdication and help to remedy their current astate of despair, this would innately lead to the birth of a inequality. Research has shown that societal discriminations and prejudice towards men seeking mental healthcare has lead to men having higher suicide rates than women.

Compared to women, men are three times more likely to die by suicide in Australia. although the reasons for this is not only limited to lack of access to psychiatrist. [men are more violent six-in-10 gun owners are men – and firearms account for more than half of suicides.]

A UK British Medical Journal study found general primary care consultation rates were 32% lower in men than women. Consultation rates for depression, assessed by whether patients received antidepressant prescriptions, were 8% lower in men than women

BBC Commentary

Man seek help less often and they are conditioned from a young age to be strong and masculine. Parents would tell their children that “boys don’t cry” and they are not expected to show their weak and vulnerable sides. Hence, it is not moreally right for us to blame them fortrying to hide and conceal their depression and put on a brave front later on in life

The existence of a free drinks ladies night shows that the perception that women would be incapabel to afford to pay for ther own drinks is indeed ingrained in western culture and historical practices.

Lack of domestic abuse shelters for men (public perception-men are supposed to be seen as abusers instead of being abused. Stereotype that they are the stronger and tougher of the sexes)

Unfeasible to have equality in numbers in certain workforces

Not feasible to have policies like having equal ratio of men and women in workforce such as construction. The hard fact is that women do not have that much muscles and physical elements do make them equal with man on the scale of their ability to carry out menial labour etc. not a practical and realistic decisions to implement the policy for namesake and economically, not as much work would have been done either

~charlotte

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/140-stars-from-entertainment-industry-call-on-world-leaders-to-tackle-gender-equality-a8360746.html

“And, if you deliver, we will be the first to champion your progress. We won’t stop until there is justice for women and girls everywhere. Because none of us are equal until all of us are equal.” ~Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep and Letitia Wright and the 137 other stars from the entertainment industry

140 stars from the entertainment industry have written a letter to world leaders to fight for global gender equality- for the women in poverty to have a voice and girls to have equal education opportunities as males, particularly in the poorest countries in the world.

The letter states that world leaders are being put “on notice” and touches on the inequalities between males and females especially in less developed countries. Reese Witherspoon, Amy Schumer, Chelsea Clinton, Neil Patrick Harris, Natalie Dormer, Robin Wright and Ryan Reynolds are also among the 140 stars involved in this initiative, which is being led by the ONE campaign. To me, this really highlights how even males need to be involved in the fight for global gender equality.

Additionally, in early 2018 , many celebrities arrived at the BAFTAs wearing black in accordance with the “Time’s Up” movement, which consists of 300 women who work in film, television, and theatre banding together to create a legal defence fund to help survivors of sexual harassment.

Yet, even with all these movements striving towards gender equality, the target still seems to be only attainable in a utopia world. Thus, we really want to urge everyone to join the cause for gender equality to strive towards a better world.

“Until we’re able to break down the barriers holding girls and women back on a global level, extreme poverty and gender inequality will continue to exist.”

Gender inequality is prevalent all around the world. We hope this video will help to increase awareness of gender inequality and the impacts on the world.

United States is one of the countries who is making significant progress and advancements to complete gender equality in the country. Through increasing political representation and participation of females, higher job positions given to women and allowing them to take up higher education levels. The USA can achieve its goal of gender equality at a much quicker rate.

Economic

Although wage gaps still exist between the men and women, they have narrowed down significantly since 1980s.
Based on an estimate, it would take an extra 39 days of work for women to earn what men did in  2018. Hence it is evident that gender inequality exists in United States, but the country is trying its best to work towards gendr equality.

Education

It is known that girls have lower chances of stepping foot into a classroom compared to boys. Education allows for the learning of the most basic knowledge and skills, such as literacy. Girls deserve to attend school just like their male counterparts. Providing higher education for girls will not only help prepare themselves for their future lives, but also aid the society in economic growth(ability to take on jobs and earn money to start a family) and social development(lower maternal mortality rates).

1. Consider pay transparency:
   The 2016 Glassdoor study found research showing that salary transparency can help eliminate gender pay gaps and play an important role in helping to achieve balance.
2. Offer child care solutions:
   Offering childcare on site can help to ease some additional burden on working mothers, and this allows them to have more time for work. Furthermore, corporate discounted daycare, or opening a flexible spending account to help supplement parents’ expenses also shows respect for their effort and helps them achieve a better work-life balance. This way, women can focus more on their career in comparison with their male counterparts and serves to eliminate gender stereotypes.
3. Provide mentorships to strong talents:
   Mentors can advise female employees on how to build their appeal for advancement opportunities, like adding to their skill sets, continuing their education, and learning how to network.
4. Educate mentors on how to be fair:
   Many managers don’t realize they speak to women differently than men. Train your management team to effectively lead and do so in a fair way. Offer every employee consistent feedback, encourage their input, offer professional development, and coach everyone equally.

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Due to gender inequality, over the years, there has been wider gender income gaps. Women make up 63 percent of workers earning the federal minimum wage, a wage rate stuck at $7.25 since 2009. Women represent only 5 percent of CEOs at Fortune 500 firms and men make up an overwhelming majority of top earners across the U.S. economy, despite women having to represent almost half of the country’s workforce.  In every US industry, men are making more money than women. This also leads to a gender wealth gap whereby Us men have three times more than women in retirement savings. In addition, there is also a gender poverty gap where it is shown that women have faced significantly higher poverty rates than men. In each of these aspects, it can be seen that women are often being the ones who are earning lesser and getting lesser pay as compared to men.
https://inequality.org/gender-inequality/

There are some reasons for gender inequality and this includes the education levels of people, tradition and culture, religion, empowerment as well as the bad mentality and stereotypes of our society. In some countries, the education is low and many people are unable to afford and get a proper education. Many families do not see girls as an equal to boys and hence, often neglect girls and thus girls are unable to get a proper education and attend school. Tradition and culture also play a part in gender inequality. In some countries like Africa, some elders in these villages do not regard women leadership as something significant and do not support this. This ultimately leads to gender inequality as men will keep getting the leadership positions and women remain at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Furthermore, empowerment is lacking in some countries. People are not being educated and informed well enough about women empowerment and how gender inequality can lead to violation of rights and sexual violence. With minimal knowledge on these in certain countries, people will continue having the same mindset that men is superior to women and this eventually draws a greater difference between the two genders. The bad mentalities and stereotypes of many in our society further aggravates the fact that women are to stay at home to do household chores and take care of family members rather than to join their male peers to go and study in school. With this stereotype, people continue to believe in this and hence further highlights gender inequality.

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Gender equality is not just the responsibility of men. Women, too, have a crucial part to play in ensuring that men and women are regarded as coequals of society.

Women themselves are stuck in perpetuating the notion that we, as a whole, are not good enough.

• Stuck in a place of competing with other women
• Stuck in taking stock of other women’s value based on how they look
• Stuck in feeling insecure about their own accomplishments and goals

A 2011 study found that when meeting an attractive woman, 85 percent of the female subjects gave their peer a critical once over and made harsh comments about her appearance. Another study has shown that the woman on the receiving end of such comments will feel socially excluded and can experience psychological pain that is comparable to physical pain.

Breaking out of this mean-streaked vicious cycle. We should lead by example and be what a strong supportive women is. We should not fall into the mold that others expect us to be: falling into a competitive, mean-girl way of interacting with one another. We should strive to enable ourselves to be seen for the value we offer to the world instead of the value of our appearance.

By Charlotte 😉