Gender Inequality in the 19th and 20th Century

Gender inequalities generally affect women more often than men. They have led to controversy and activism since the 19th century. Women’s place Inequality has resulted from women’s limited role in society. Until the 1960s women were expected mostly to be wives, mothers and homemakers. Men were expected to support their wives and children financially, and to represent them in public affairs. Feminists fought for women’s rights – mostly in the late 19th century and the 1970s and 1980s. However, some discrimination continued in the early 2000s.

Gender Wage Differences

Cartoon Example of Women Inequality

Women in Films

Bill Gates view on Inequality

Gender Inequality in the Workplace

Women are getting better grades, going to University more and getting many more honours than men yet they are still only earning 80 cents to every mans dollar earnt. This shows us how that even though women are mostly more educated than men, they are still being treated as inferior in the workplace.

UN Women

www.unwomen.org This is a site where groups of women get together and help other women and help fight against gender inequality.

Google Search Bar - UN Women

The auto-complete function on Google's search bar reveals some interesting things about how the average person perceives the world around them.

MDG3 - How is the world doing?

• 2countries out of 130 have achieved gender equality at all levels of education.
• 16.2%of ministerial-level positions are held by women (2010).
• 40% of wage-earning jobs in the non-agricultural sector were held by women in 2011.
• 1% of global agriculture credit goes to African women.

Millennium Development Goal

GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 1. •All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Malala Yousafzai

When she was just 14 years old, Malala was wounded by masked gunmen who singled her out as she returned home in a school bus in Pakistan’s north-west Swat Valley. She was targeted by the Taliban after speaking out against atrocities committed under the regime in October 2012.