Argumentative Text About Gender Inequality
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WRITING AN ARGUMENTATIVE TEXT ON GENDER INEQUALITY
Names and surnames:
DEL AGUÍLA HUATUCO, CARLA ANDREA
Place:
Lima Peru
2018
1. Introduction
Peru has one of the widest gender gaps in the region. Education, violence, health,
employment, among others, are some of them, but the strongest gap and the first
that must be eradicated is that of prejudice. Prejudice establishes in the male
gender the predisposition to the inferiorization of women, turning them into a
socially invisible being who cannot carry out greater activities than those that
concern the home.
Gender inequality is a social wound that we have had since the beginning of time,
where women were confined to carrying out domestic tasks and where the only
contract they could make was the “Sexual Contract”. Can this contract be legal?
The philosopher Carole Pateman raises the need for the full and effective
incorporation of women into the public-political space of citizenship and
democracy. It is important to establish how women over the years have managed
to become an active being in society, achieving the acquisition of rights and duties
that years ago were unimaginable, although this still does not solve gender
inequality.
2. Development
2.1 First development paragraph
Main idea: The Sexual Division.
The sexual division has created a marked difference between the tasks assigned to
men and women. For Bourdeu, the social order functions as an immense symbolic
machine that tends to ratify the male domination on which it relies: sexual
division. This confers the meeting or market tasks to the men and the house to
the women. The sexual division is based on biological difference and allows it to be
the natural justification of the socially established difference between the sexes.
This marked difference is translated as being superior (man) and being inferior
(woman).
2.2 Second development paragraph
Main idea: Sexual Contract
But not only does the sexual division create gender inequality, the acceptance, in
the first instance, of a sexual contract over a social contract suggests that women
assumed this contract as a subordination. As Pateman notes, the interesting thing
is that “for Rousseau it follows that any relationship reminiscent of slavery is
illegitimate, and no contract creates a valid relationship of subordination, except
the sexual contract.” Women were confirmed to be in the domestic sphere, far
from fundamental freedoms, nor from the basic principles of justice. They were
meant to be obedient and submissive.
2.3 Third development paragraph
Main idea: Gender gap
Over the years, women have acquired rights, but these are still not enough to
affirm that gender equality has been achieved. Gaps such as education,
employment, the high fertility rate in young women, violence, are indicators that
show that inequality is a current issue . In Peru, the gender gap in salaries is
27.8% on average, calculated at the national level. With this, women
would have to earn around a third more in salary income to reach the
salaries received by men, according to the Regional Competitiveness
Index (Incore) 2016, prepared by the Peruvian Institute of Economics ( IPE
). Source: Peru 21.
Education is very important at this point, because it is through this that people
will understand the meaning of equality, but not only that, the lack of education
is a strong indicator of child pregnancies, rape and unemployment. These major
social problems classify women as people with inferior capabilities. It is
important to start by empowering women and showing them that their
capabilities are equal to those of men.
2.4 Fourth development paragraph
Main idea: Business participation
But not only families and the State are responsible for this inequality... Companies
are an important factor in achieving the goal of eradicating inequality. The gender
equality ranking in companies rewards precisely these actions among firms in
Peru. This year 54 companies participated – 32 more than last year – and
Marriott Perú, Banco Falabella Perú and PwC were the ones that occupied the
first three positions.
It is important that companies implement actions that reduce these gaps, but that
in the long run they are automatic actions for all workers. Achieving this would
allow an improvement in the work environment and greater productivity.
3. Conclusion
It is clear that to completely eliminate gender inequality it is important to establish
equal rights, duties and benefits... Society and the state are an important part of
achieving this, the first must eliminate prejudices and understand the sense of
equity and the second has the obligation to provide the tools, such as education,
health, and safety equally for both genders.
The key to achieving inequality is education, teaching values and, above all,
respect. As long as this is not part of society, not only will gender inequality
continue to exist, but social differences will also exist.
