A growing trend in Chinese
universities is causing protest by angering women. This trend is the fact that
women have to score higher than men to get in universities. Xiong Jing and her
two friends shaved their heads in Beijing to protest against this trend. The
practices of inequality are claimed to be in national interest by the education
ministry. Only about twenty women in China and a couple of men shaved their
heads in protest of this practice. Women artist that shaved their heads in
protest for greater women rights inspired this. The universities decline that
there are any gender inequalities towards women or gender favors towards men.
It is not yet known, when exactly these unfair moves begun, but it is known
that they are now very implemented.
Gender inequality is an issue that
has been going for centuries and is struggling to become resolved. One of the
Millennium Development Goals created by the United Nations is to promote gender
equality and empower women. This goal is set to reach by 2015 for all education
levels. Women are known for having lack of benefits and security due to their
lack of education and ability to have an actual, decent paying, stable job.
Top-level jobs are going to men instead of women showing unfairness between the
two genders. This practice of having women score higher than men to get into
universities is showing that gender inequality still exists and is staying
strong. Women in China have to try harder than men to enroll in a university
demonstrating that there is injustice between the genders. This is causing more
difficulty to actually meet the goal to promote gender inequality and empower
women by the year of 2015.
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