Reflective Tag
I learned that the gender gap was way worse than I believed. Women and LGBT members have been discriminated against forever, and still are to this day. However, there is hope in the horizon.
Gender is based on a person’s inner beliefs and proclivities. However, gender has heavy bias across the globe. Around the world, gender is separated into three categories: Men at the top, the women, and the LGBT community. Especially in the Middle East, women and LGBT are heavy segregated, and denied rights. In many countries, such as Nigeria, being a homosexual is punishable by death. In Afghanistan, it is highly discouraged for women to attend school and attain an education. Families without a male child will choose a daughter to act as a man.
The gender gap could be cause by many factors. In early human history, after the Neolithic Era, when agriculture was becoming more widespread. As nomadic, egalitarian societies began to become sedentary, the equality of those societies began to change. When before, as with the Jo’hansi people, where women were the main breadwinners, men took over the jobs involving labor. Women were moved into a role of producing the next generation, and managing the household. As we can see in modern society, as women have again become major breadwinners, society is beginning to equal out again.
The US, while by no means egalitarian, has begun to move into a more equal society. Women are beginning to move to the forefront of business, and are even our military has begun to become more open to both sexes. There are hiccups, of course, such as sexual assult and the jaded views of old fashioned, backwards viewing men, but slowly but surely women are beginning to integrate themselves into the infrastructure, where they belong.