Gender Equality - Blog Posts

Got bored in school. So here. And happy June to all geeks and peeps out there. (Part one I'm only allowed 10 images per post... I made 21...😢)

Today is Equal Pay Day. On average, a woman in the U.S. has to work until today — March 25th — to earn what a white man was paid in 2024. 🪙🙅🏽‍♀️💵

And the gender wage gap is even worse for women of color. Compared to white men:

💲 Latina and Native women earn 58 cents

💲 Black women earn 66 cents

💲 White women earn 80 cents

💲 Asian American women earn 94 cents

If you care about wages and pay inequality, the politicians WE elect can create policies to address it. Make sure you are registered to vote right now at WhenWeAllVote.org/check.

කාන්තාවන් විසින් කෙලෙසූ පිරිමි ජීවිත

කාන්තාවන් විසින් කෙලෙසූ පිරිමි ජීවිත

හිංසනය සෑම විටම සිදුවන්නේ පුරුෂයා විසින් කාන්තාව වෙත ද? ප්‍රශ්න කළ යුතු කාලයක් එළැඹ තිබේ. මේ ලිංගික සමානාත්මතාව පිළිබඳව වැඩි වැඩියෙන් සංවාද කල යුතු කාලයයි.

ලිංගික හිංසනයක් වැනි අතිශය සංවේදී කාරණයකදී හිංසනයට ලක් වූවන් අනුකම්පාවට ලක් වීමත් හිංසනයන් සිදු කරන්නවුන් සමාජයේ වෛරයට ලක් වීමත් ස්වභාවයෙන්ම සිදු වන්නකි. සැබැවින්ම ලිංගික “හිංසනයන්” වැනි ක්‍රියාවන් ශිෂ්ඨ සම්පන්න සමාජයක සිදු නොවිය යුතු දේවල්…

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Gender Roles in Marriage: Embracing Change in Modern Marriages

  Marriage, once perceived as a union rooted in strict gender roles, has undergone a significant transformation in recent decades. Traditional gender roles, where men were expected to be the primary breadwinners and women the homemakers, have evolved into more fluid partnerships. Modern marriages are witnessing a paradigm shift, challenging societal norms and fostering a new era of equality and…

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Marriage and Gender Roles - Keeping Tradition Alive in Modern Times

Marriage has long been considered a cornerstone of human society, a bond that brings individuals together to form families and communities. Throughout history, it has been deeply intertwined with cultural norms and societal expectations, including the roles and responsibilities assigned to each gender within the marriage. However, as society evolves and notions of equality gain prominence, the…

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Haircut thoughts, felt like sharing

Yesterday, me and my sis went to get a haircut after 2 long years. I was sitting there as my sis got her hair chopped down and noticed a guy sitting beside her.

He had been there before we came in and left just before us - when both my sis and me were done. He just sat there and got a freaking makeover in all the possible ways. I personally don't like spending time in salons just to look good but that's just me, he liked it and did it and I was like yeah , you go boy! *Me feeling guilty for even noticing ,as this should be normal*

The guys who pamper themselves, who get facials and spend 2hrs in a salon getting everything done to look good, I feel they are truly open-minded. They don't care if people say "why is he spending so much time to look good? He is a guy! Such a girl thing to do!". Cuz they don't think that caring about looks is a "girl" thing. It's a human thing. Either one cares or one doesn't care. Nothing to do with the gender here.

Funny thing is that these people, guys who are in salons, don't even realise they respect females in that way. They will still go out and say " women take so long to get ready" when they just spent 2hrs getting there beard and hair set . Feels like in this society , a person has to have courage and bravery to say " It is no such thing as a girl thing". So , choosing the easier way , they say " Huh! Women." *Eye roll*

The society is build this way, it makes us feel this way. But we make the society too, and I feel we are here to change this. Let guys care for their looks if they want and girls not care if they want. Go ahead , be yourself . And you don't need some new found courage for that. Nothing is a girl thing or guy thing ,if it is, it's a human thing.

Btw, I got my hair from longer-than-shoulder length to cant-even-touch-the-eyebrow length and I love it!!

Researchers from the University of Essex have published a controversial study suggesting men are the true victims of gender inequality, with women at an overall advantage. The paper, published in 2019, claims to have found that men are, on average, more disadvantaged than women in 91 out of 134 countries, which is about 68% of countries studied and includes Great Britain, Canada, and the US.

Before you crucify me, this isn’t the only place where this controversial idea has been called out. As the World Bank put it in its most recent Global Gender Gap Report, the  current standard for measuring inequality is the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index. “The index rewards countries that reach the point where outcomes for women equal to those for men, but it neither rewards nor penalizes cases in which women are outperforming men". That means it’s effectively a measure of women inequality and ignores male inequality, which is clearly only half the picture.

This stuff is super interesting and very important. If advocates for women equality truly want to achieve it, they need to look at the full picture. In this episode we’re going to look at some of the ways that men are behind in equality.

The purpose of this episode is not to say that men have it worse than women, although some measurements do illustrate that like the Basic Index of Gender Inequality (BIGI) focuses on three factors – educational opportunities, healthy life expectancy and overall life satisfaction.

The purpose of this episode is to uncover some of the ways that men aren’t equal and to remind us that if we are going to say that we haven’t reached equality for women, we need to be careful that we aren’t saying that we have reached equality for men, because that is certainly not true. Men make up 50% of the population. If women are going to ask that men buy into the idea of equality, we need to ensure we are looking at the full picture.

Men don’t live as long as women

Men perform poorer in school

Men aren’t completing university

Men have lower life satisfaction

Men are more likely to commit suicide

Men are more likely to be imprisoned

Sources

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2018.pdf

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/VSRR10-508.pdf

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-men-often-die-earlier-than-women-201602199137

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/what-you-need-know-about-unescos-global-report-boys-disengagement-education

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/11/23/why-are-boys-doing-badly-at-school

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/111041644611110155/pdf/Educational-Underachievement-Among-Boys-and-Men.pdf

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/08/whats-behind-the-growing-gap-between-men-and-women-in-college-completion/

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-625-x/2019001/article/00002-eng.htm

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187478/death-rate-from-suicide-in-the-us-by-gender-since-1950/

https://healthydebate.ca/2017/08/topic/male-suicide/

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gender.jsp

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190103152911.htm

"Short Skirt, Long Jacket" by CAKE was the prototype for the new breed of fauxminist d00d who claims he is supportive of his partner's career success, but really just wants to rely on her for all of his needs, including financial. In this essay I will

Imma say it once for some people out there

Makeup

Is

Gender

Neutral

And people can wear whatever they want 👍🏽