PRESENTATION ON : “GENDER EQUALITY”

“GENDER EQUALITY”

• DEFINITION: Rights, responsibilities and opportunities

of women and men will not depend on whether they are
born mala or female.

• Gender equality is based on human rights, which are

human beings’ possibility: to live, to be expressed freely,
to be educated, to create and develop his/her activities
consistently to the law.

• WOMAN’S POSITION: In all countries, the role of the

woman in the society remains a huge problem. This
happens because for centuries the role of the woman
was very downgraded.

• Why was the role of women downgraded?

1. Women were physically less strong than men and

undertook all the house works, which were easier.
2. Woman: was obliged with procreation and couldn’t
participate in the production, which was men’s
obligation, as they were stronger.
3. The deficiency of the education helped the woman
to accept her role passively.

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• Nowadays, feminism raises. “Feminism supports that

the essential assumption for the improvement of society
comprises the equality of the two genders in every
human activity sector; financial, political and social.”

• WOMEN’S RIGHTS:

~ 200 years ago: women had few rights. Not allowed to

vote. Were considered their father or husband’s
property.

~ mid of 19th cent.: women demanded equality with

men. They wanted suffrage (the right to vote in
elections), an equal chance with men to work and
education. They demanded the right to have their own
belongings, to divorce their husbands and keep their
children after divorce.

~ by 1920s: women won some ‘battles’ for their right to

vote and education.

~ liberation movement in 1960s : women renewed their

fight for equal rights. The new wave of protest was
called “the women’s”.

• “WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT”: During 1960s and

1970s women’s liberation movement fought for further

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improvements in women’s rights. Women demonstrated

for:
1. equal pay
2. better health care
3. an end to pornography and violence against
women.

The fight for women’s rights was also called feminism and
involved many dedicated women. The first organized
demand for the vote occurred in the United States in 1848.

• In 1905, a British newspaper used the word

suffragette to insult women who were fighting for
their right to vote.
• Many suffragettes broke the law and went to
prison for their beliefs.
• Women who used peaceful means to obtain the
vote were called suffragists.
• In 1918 British women over 30 gained the right to
vote.

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SEXIST VOCABULARY

• Some of the most important linguistic changes affecting

English since 1960s have arisen from the way society
has come to look differently at the practices and
consequences of sexism.

• Vocabulary: attention focused on the replacement of

‘male’ words with a generic meaning of neutral items.
Eg. “chairman” becoming “chairperson” OR
“salesman” becoming “sales assistant”.
Vocabulary of marital status also a.ffected
Eg. in the induction of Ms as a neutral alternative to
Mrs and Miss.

EQUALITY IN EMPLOYMENT

TODAY:
• Women’s employment rates have risen BUT the
quality of their employment remains far below that
of men.
• Compared to men, women still face unequal pay
for work of equal value and unequal promotion
prospects.
• They also face a greater likelihood of experiencing
unemployment and poverty.

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CONCLUSION

• Men and women have to understand they are both

equal beings and they both have human capacities. So
on they have to reconcile, to coexist and to collaborate
for the prosperity of the society.
• Men should be exempted by the psychology of
superiority against women AND (should be exempted)
by the psychology of downgraded.
• Society has to restore the role of woman not only in
regulations, but also in men’s consciousness.

“The oppression of the woman is social racism, BUT

the equality of the genders is a victory of the human
dignity.”

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