Alex Uribe
S. Knapp
English 1A
November
21, 2012
All Men Around The
World
Dear To Whom It May
Concern:
Do you agree with
“It’s a man’s world”? Think again, because this is the reason
why our world isn’t fully developed. I would like to address some
global problems that our world is facing now due to this bias. For
years, our world society has been relying on patriarchy at large and
it has caused many gender inequalities throughout the nations. It is
not happening just in one country or two, but in all countries around
the world. Some countries have it worse than others, but they all are
experiencing a form of it. Even in those so called developed
countries like the United States are keeping this unbalance alive.
They vary from educational inequalities to workforce and beyond. All
these contrasts between men and women have affected our world in many
ways. Since men favor themselves only particularly in those
developing countries, they are creating tremendous impacts on their
country development, world health, and economy. Most women have to
experience unpleasant depressing difficult lives because of these
inequities our male society has created. Our world society has made
the man believe men are the superiority and women the inferiority.
The male population views the female population as lower and less
important which should not be the case. All men come from a woman
and there is no possible way us men are better in any way than women
because biologically the only object that divides us are sexual
organs, for we shall all have the exact equal opportunities in all
matters as human beings.
Gender inequality is
a very serious issue although most men are not fully aware of the
real outcomes. If you were getting treated unequal for your gender
status would you be furious to make a change, or would you ignore it
and deal with it? Women/girls are having miserable lives in many
ways compared to us men/boys because of the cultural gender myth that
has lived on for generations. According to The World Bank, “Nearly
four million women go missing each year in developing countries,
'About two fifths of girls are never born due to a preference for
sons, 'A sixth of girls die in early childhood, and over a third die
in their reproductive years.” Sadly these are the real outcomes of
gender inequality. Two fifths is a large number of poor little girls
who never get to see sunshine just because they are girls and that
definitely is not the right thing that should be happening. There
shouldn't be a preference for sons for anyone to the point where they
abort a child for developing into a girl. Fetuses don't get the
option of choosing what gender they want to be born as, for there
shouldn't be these cruel actions being done to them. Not to mention
the sixth that die in early childhood because of being neglected to
food or healthcare for them being girls. Society is making a big
mistake by fallowing this wrongful supposition. This is a big issue
because no child needs to face these awful experiences regardless of
their gender. By having even-handed equalities, children “girls”
in particular will experience happier lives, because they will have a
higher self-esteem level and they won't feel like their worthless
just for the fact that they aren't boys.
Furthermore in
Afghanistan, domestic violence is a major issue at hand because women
are treated like garbage by husbands, in-laws, and by the justice
system that they prefer being dead. Many women have to experience
torture and abuse by their husbands just because men have the belief
of “it's a man's world” and believe its right to be extremely
superior to their women. Most girls are forced to marry an older man
at a very young age. Some girls get married around age ten, and that
is way too young if you ask me. As these girls grow up into young
women they have a very low self-esteem level. They feel worthless to
the point when they want to commit suicide. It has become very well
heard of women starting to burn themselves alive because they claim
it's the only way to escape the horrible lives they have to live.
According to RAWA News, “Women's rights groups say domestic
violence and discrimination is common and usually have no access to
the justice system; 'Divorce is rarely an option in a county where
about 80 percent of women are illiterate and often have no knowledge
of their rights; 'Islamic law in Afghanistan also favors men; 'A wife
must prove her husband can't provide for her, is absent for long
periods, or abuses her to the point where her life is at risk; ' She
also needs witnesses and often his permission to divorce; 'Even then
she's unlikely to keep her children and it's that prospect which
drives women like these to seek other more desperate ways to escape”.
A woman shouldn't have to seek for her own death just because of the
way they are treated by their husbands or society. Women need to have
the opportunity to be independent if they have to be, and to be
educated and informed about their rights. It is not fair for a human
to be suffering regarding of their gender. Men have to look closer at
these inequalities because their causing severe damage to society.
HIV has become a
pandemic disease, and every day it keeps on pushing its way to new
victims; however, gender inequality plays a big role on the expansion
of this unwanted disease. This is a enormous impact on the health of
our world and its happening because of the limited privileges
available for women. According to the World Health Organization,
“Norms related to femininity can prevent women -especially young
women- from accessing HIV information and services.” According to
the 2008 UNAIDS global figures, “only 38 percent of women have
accurate, comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS.” This is not even
half of the world's female population being fully aware of the
disease thus HIV keeps on expanding at a dramatic rate. We need women
to be able to go out and be enlighten about such subjects like this
one because the whole world can benefit from it. Women need the
opportunity to actually get educated equally as men and not refused
in any way. This can bring better health to the world, and it can
help slowdown the HIV expansion which I know everybody would like
that to happen and no one would like to be infected with the virus.
The business markets
have major gender inequities because women don't have the same access
to resources as men do. Women and girls keep facing disadvantages in
the business-force and work-force in most sectors. According to the
United States Agency of International Development, “In agriculture,
women make up more than 40 percent of the labor force, but only
represent between 3 to 20 percent of landholders, 'In Africa,
women-owned enterprises make up as little as 10 percent of all
businesses, and in South Asia only 3 percent, 'Women compromise less
than 20 percent of the world's legislators.” This a very small
amount of women-owned businesses and land. Women could only do so
much with the opportunity's they are offered. If we have precise
equality for all women and men we can achieve greater success in
economy and human needs. The USAID claims that just by empowering
women farmers with the same access to land, new technologies and
capital as men, we can increase crop yields by as much as 30 percent
and feed an additional 150 million people. Many developing countries
can use this additional food since there is a large number of people
who don't get to eat three meals a day, however, this is only
possible by having gender equality throughout the world. We need to
unlock human potential and emancipate our society.
The United States of
America is the one of the most developed countries; however, even
here there is gender inequities well existing as of today. Women here
in the U.S have most if not all the same rights as men do, but they
still have disparity's in the workforce. According to the Washington
post, as of 2011 women were gaining 77 cents for every dollar a man
earns and it gets worse for African American and Hispanic women,
because they are earning less than those 77 cents. African American
women are gaining 64 cents for every male earned dollar and Hispanic
women are gaining 56 cents. Progress, however, is happening.
According to The Christian Science Monitor, women are now earning 82
cents per dollar in the year of 2012. Almost 50 years ago in the
year of 1963, congress passed the Equal Pay Act, which enforced all
employers to pay the same amount of wages to men and women for the
same work, but clearly in the year of 2012 there is still the same
issue at hand. This has caused single mother's to struggle trying to
provide for their families. We need to provide all people with a
balanced pay scale. I am a college student father to a 3 year old
beautiful girl and I want precise gender equality to be available by
the time she is graduating from a college or university. Since my
daughter is Hispanic, she has a higher level of risk to gender and
race discrimination in the workforce. I want my daughter to be able
to earn the same wage as a man would for completing the same tasks
regardless of her gender and race.
In the essay “The
Death of Macho” by Reihan Salam, he explains how women are
elevating to higher grounds in the labor force during the downturn of
men. The author suggests in his article that, men can either adapt to
or rebel against their declining power in the work force; however, I
agree we do need to adapt to our declining power, but we also have to
provide women with the same pay as we did with job positions. Women
are now stepping in offices they never could in past years, but they
are not getting paid the same as men in the same office. Equal
employment opportunities and equal pay is the key to success. By men
adapting to a balanced society between men and women, it will bring
many new things to our world that we have never seen, because we will
be using a full brain instead of half. This can be the best choice we
have ever taken in history and it will drive us to nothing but
success. Men have been the dominating the world for centuries, but
the time has come to leave that behind and come forward with gender
equalities .
Our world has
experienced downfalls especially in developing countries due to
gender inequalities. The effects that are currently occurring due to
this cause are economic, health, and domestic relationship impacts.
It's like were only using half of the world’s brain, because were
leaving most women out. Women can think the same way as men if they
are equally educated. The only way to achieve a successful globally
development is to have equal settings for all genders. This is a
very sick and ill world, but I believe we can make a change. We need
a world were gender doesn't matter and all humans have the same
social status. Gender equality worldwide is the key to bring the best
in our modern civilization. No human likes to be treated unequal in
any way for being part of a certain group, for we should provide
equality for all genders. I am a man, but I am putting my voice out
there for women because it is a serious issue that we need pay closer
attention to because it's affecting the whole world whether you want
to believe it or not. By doing so, undeveloped countries will develop
faster and developed countries will improve. We need to take action
against these gender inequalities as men for the sake of our women,
and our world.
Sincerely,
Alex Uribe
Watsonville, CA
95076
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