I'm Not Silent, I'm Speechless

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Concerns Of Gender Inequality and Discrimination in Our Society

I've found myself rather dumbfounded in the face of political and social reforms that continue to subject women to inequality and discrimination of rights, whether in the job, community, education, or rights over our bodies. Women are purposefully overlooked and denigrated because of our gender and how society chooses to depict what the boundaries between men and women ought to constitute and the various gender roles society believes we ought to be obligated unto. Our gender should not define what we are capable of doing, nor should it prevent us from exceeding or being equal matched to that of a man in society. Discrimination does not essentially end at the gender, but also due to a women's race and ethnicity. Ethnic inequality for women of color have caused for enduring of racial bias in the workplace, education system, population, healthcare, and society. Cross-cutting instructs us that gendered discrimination shapes how race and gender-based discriminatory structures coincide to create numerous difficulties for women of color with consequences that contemplating through through the perspective of only racist structures or merely structural gender discrimination cannot (Stamarski & Hing, 2015). There is constant fear of what society will become, as we continue to fight for women's rights and equality for a millennia, we'll make history by continuing fight and change perspective and views of women and what we are rightful seize to gain, respect, equality, and a voice that is head.

How is Gender Inequality Defined?

Gender inequality is described as either gender's unequal rights of being subjected to unequal opportunities in the workplace, education, and in society. It is the indifference that results from the notion that one gender, namely men, is superior to women. As a result, women are typically denied the same chances as men in society. Inequality is defined as an imbalance in gender rights in terms of social transformation and social fairness. According to Stamarski and Hing (2015), the workplace has been referred to as an unfriendly place for women due to the many different kinds of gender inequities that exist. The gender wage gap (e.g., Peterson and Morgan, 1995), a lack of women in leadership (Eagly and Carli, 2007), and the greater amount of time required for women (vs. men) to achieve success in their careers are several instances of how discrimination in the workplace negatively affects women's earnings and opportunities. The subjective experiences of being stigmatized, as well as the objective disadvantages of lower income, status, and possibilities at work, impair women's psychological and emotional stress as well as both mentally and physically (Goldenhar et al., 1998; Adler et al., 2000; Schmader et al., 2008; Borrel et al., 2010). Gender is more than simply the moniker we were given or decided to be recognized by; it is a statement that expresses you and what you are physically and intellectually, it is power and bravery, and it is terrible that it is continuously demonized and leads women left out from equal opportunities. 

Confident enough to stand out and speak out now, I've been deliberating about the ways I can successfully do my part as a woman to ensure that we are heard. It is an atrocity that the millions of cries of a woman are only heard as a whisper across the nation of social justice. We know that society is losing interest in a woman's voice, a voice that is always going ignored because to the genetalia that resides between our legs. While I am speechless, unable to express my feelings verbally, I choose to express myself and share my thoughts in writing in order to address the problems in society that have taken away women's equality of rights and plague how people choose to represent how we should be treated. We should not degrade, dismiss, or overlook opposing genders as a society since that is not how we got to where we are today. Men and women must be equal if we are to see a rising future for everybody.

 

References

Laster Pirtle, W. N., & Wright, T. (2021). Structural Gendered Racism Revealed in Pandemic Times: Intersectional Approaches to Understanding Race and Gender Health Inequities in COVID-19. Gender & Society, 35(2), 168–179. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432211001302

Stamarski, C., & Hing, L. S. S. (2015). Gender inequalities in the workplace: the effects of organizational structures, processes, practices, and decision makers’ sexism. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01400

 


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