Exhibition Essay
By Sue-Min
2011 April
This essay will include my research, facts, lines of inquiry, and my opinion about
Gender Equality and Gender Inequality.
Lines of Inquiry -
What is gender inequality and equality?
In what ways does gender inequality occur?
What is the impact of gender equality on all people’s lives?
What is workplace inequality?
What can we do to help this problem?
We chose these lines of inquiry because we wanted to find more about gender equality. We wanted to find more about Gender Equality and Inequality because I wanted to know how much it can really effect people’s lives.
My Opinion
I think that it is extremely unfair how some men earn more money than women because we are the same human beings. I also think that its very bad that in
Afghanistan girls used to not get any education at all so they can end of having a bad job. If I were them, I will be really miserable and angry at the same time because I will really want to learn. From now on I want to think more about Gender
Equality and try to avoid gender equality by doing all the things that we can do to help Gender Inequality and say stop if there are gender inequality happening in this world. I think Gender Inequality was the right problem for me to choose because I cared about it and I was interested in it.
I think that Gender Equality is very good and it can make the world a better place to live for the people. If there are Gender Equality everyone will go to school and

everyone will get the equal celeries if they women and men work the same amount and have the same job.
I care about Gender Equality and I chose it for our unit Sharing the Planet because I have been effected by gender inequality. At 4 th grade when my friends wanted to play soccer there was no space so we went to the boys and told them that we wanted to play with them but they said “You guys are just girls, girls can’t play soccer!” I think that was mean because they think that we weren’t strong enough so we are not good at soccer.
Also at 3 rd grade I think that a boy told me to do the handwriting and all the work because he thinks that he shouldn’t do it because he doesn’t have good handwriting or good at working. He can at least try instead of just playing and resting while the girl is doing everything. These events are Gender Inequality because just because
I’m a girl, it doesn’t mean that we can’t play soccer like boys do. Also we are the same human beings so there is no reason for us to treat the two genders differently.
What is gender inequality and equality?
We found that Gender equality means fairness between men and women in education, workplace and more. Gender Inequality means unfairness and different rights for women and men in education, workplace and more. My group is focusing more in workplace and women and men bosses. I am focusing in workplace because I thought that getting less salary were the unfair instead of education or others. This information is about laws that help Gender Equality. These laws make workplace inequality in to workplace equality.
In 1970 a new law called Equal Pay Act made sure that all women and men got the same money if they worked the same job. After the Equal pay act then came the
Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimination on jobs based on religion, sex, etc.
Today women can have any jobs they want. They can be officials, firefighter, doctors, and more. Now 6 of every 10 women have a place to work or have a proper job, which gives them money.

In what ways does gender inequality occur?
One of the reasons why gender inequality occurs is that from long ago (like from
B.C.) from the time our civilization started, men were treated better than women.
But this is only in some parts and like in Ancient Sparta, women were treated the equal to men. Some parts even believed that women were more valuable and precious than men because they give birth to new generations. In these situations, the religion and their beliefs. For example, in Afghanistan now, we still have almost no education for girls and less jobs for women than men. These situations occur because of some Islamic beliefs in Afghan and a terrorist group called ‘Taliban’ almost all schools for girls and fired all women teachers in Afghanistan. One of the reasons why men are treated better than women is that in Islamic religion, women were physically weaker than man and man did all the muscle work and they are stronger than women, which means they can force women to do the work and this is another reason too. Some women claimed that man mostly makes governmental laws and this makes man more favorable than women.
What is the impact of gender equality on all people’s lives?
I found that it can be unfair to some people because if they worked the same amount of work and got a different amount of salary because it is really unequal. In
Africa single woman have less money to buy food and water for their child because they get less money for her family.
What is workplace inequality?
We found that workplace inequality is men getting paid more money then women when they do the same amount of work. Work place inequality is men getting paid more or women getting paid more even though both of them have the same job and worked the same amount. It has taken women about 16-1/3 months to earn what men made in 12 months. Women average 73 cents for every dollar men make.

In the year 1995 in America people with no high school graduation: average men earn $16,000 and average women earn $9,000 per year. People with high school graduation; average men earn $25,000 and average women earn $15,000. This is workplace inequality because even though both men and women didn’t or did go to high school, the men got more money than the women.
The graph in the bottom shows the women and the men with high school graduation and without high school graduation ’s earnings. As you can see the men and the women’s earnings have a big difference.

What can we do to help this problem?
1.
Don’t act immature when boys are mixed with girls at school and work.
2. Stop the boys if they tell the girls to do the work or writing.
3. If boys and girls want to play something that is the same in recess, let them in.

4. We can solve this problem by convincing the government to make women and men’s rights equal. If we try to do that, we may be able to write letters to the government saying our opinions.
5. Make and start a group meeting to get your fears on men/women away to get courage and the opportunity to become free. Just like it worked in the book about woman’s life. We can email people to agree that everybody should be equal because we are all human beings and other reasons.
This information is an example of Susan B. Anthony taking action and helping
Gender Inequality. Susan B. Anthony was a normal housewife until she disagreed about women not having jobs like men do. She started a vote and got some signatures from the entire housewife that agrees too. Women in the past couldn’t vote but Susan didn’t give up. Effort of Susan impacted or present lives because now women can have a job. I feel really proud for Susan B. Anthony because she had great leadership and commitment because she never gives up
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