Blog 4: We need gender studies to battle ineguality across the board

In the article We need gender studies to battle inequality across the board, by Triona Kennedy, she is trying to address that the fact that in order to eliminate the idea of gender inequality then it needs to start in the classroom. The author is saying that across the world women in power are actually taking a step backward historically. There are many factors playing into women’s inequality around the world, one being that women are still being excluded from positions of power in the public sector. This is just one example of how women are still being devalued. Today in schools when teaching about gender man and boys are still taught that they have an entitlement over women and girls. Kennedy says that in order to fix this idea, schools need to educate men and boys, and women and girls, to question the beliefs and customs about women that have emerged in the past.

                I agree with Kennedy, the idea of tearing down this gender inequality between man and women needs to start with education about it. The feminist movement has been very beneficial for women and has gained many rights for women, but there is an inequality that still exists. Women are able to do anything a man can do in most developed countries, but we still live in a male dominated world that women, even if eligible, are not going to receive that recognition that they would if they were male. The idea of tearing down this inequality needs to start in the education of schools across the world. We need not fill students heads with the idea that there are specific gender roles, but instead teach them that both genders are able to do the exact same thing, they are equal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/public-leaders-network/blog/2012/feb/08/gender-studies-inequality-boardroom?newsfeed=true