Global Issues
Gender Inequality: Key Driver To Violence Against Women -By Mariam Adesewa Adeyemi
We must teach everyone especially all boys equality and respect, challenging stereotypes and biases, and advocating for laws and policies that support gender equality. It also involves working to eliminate harmful practices such as child marriage and genital mutilation. It requires quite a lot of work but it is possible.
The existence of both sexes should not be given one-sided importance over the others because as human we both have special qualities embedded in us from God to do in life and the notion of inequality should be vehemently shunned in every part of the world.
It’s a common practice in many countries whereby women are been discriminated and considered weak .Despite the significance progress in recent years, gender inequality persist in many forms, including the unequal distribution of resources, opportunities and power between men and women. This can manifest in various ways, including discrimination in the place of work, violence against women , and the marginalisation of certain gender identities. There are various evil in our society; one of which happens to be the desire to have a baby boy.
Everybody want to be called sister, wife, daughter, mother but they never want the girl to be their blood relative. Besides, there are social in the society that forces many parents to avoid having a girl child. These other social evils are female foeticide and dowry death.
Moving on, Every girl and woman in this world are entitled to equal rights and access to education, job, health care and safety as that of a man, unfortunately, that is not the case in any society in the world. Even in the developed countries, women face gender based on discrimination and bases in many spheres of their lives. They also deserve to survive as their survival means the existence of the human race.
In conclusion, humanity needs men and women to continue. Thus, inequality will get us nowhere. We need to get rid of old-age tradition and mentality. We must teach everyone especially all boys equality and respect, challenging stereotypes and biases, and advocating for laws and policies that support gender equality. It also involves working to eliminate harmful practices such as child marriage and genital mutilation. It requires quite a lot of work but it is possible. We can work together and achieve equal respect and opportunities for all genders alike.
