Type of paper: Essay
Citation style: APA
Pages: 3
Sources: 4
Level: Bachelor
Gender equality in different cultures and societies
Gender equality, when it comes to culture, is not an exemption to the discriminations and inequalities filling the other areas and aspects of society, not to mention, impacted by a wide-ranging framework including the other forms of social classification like race, class, ethnicity, poverty level, age, religion, marital status and disability that all can result in disadvantages. Gender, the term itself, is a social and cultural construction, described “by the power relations between men and women, as well as the norms and values about ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ roles and behavior.” (UNESCO, 2014, p. 14) The cultural understanding and intervention of gender is critical to the individuality (which includes gender identity) of individuals, not to mention their societies. Gender is not unanimously comprehended and recognized the same way in all cultures. More so, it can have a lot of definitions in various communities going beyond the male-female contradiction or opposition