Argumentative Essay

Gender Equality

Is gender equality still a problem nowadays? Even though a lot of things have changed from the two last centuries regarding the equality between men and women, it still is a problem in our society. Let´s face it, inequality in gender exists and it affects women more than men.  There are people who believe that there are basis and facts which back up the gender inequality, but to those people I would ask, Are this basis accurate?

One of the most common things you would hear from the people who do not go along with sexual equality is the biological and physical differences that exist between the sexes, and until certain point they are right, for example, men are taller than women on average, but an individual woman may be taller than an individual man. There is also the difference of the reproductive organs and of course the physical strength difference. But these factors are not enough to say that a woman has fewer capabilities than a man, some of the capabilities could be in a different level but that does not mean that they cannot be developed until reaching equity.

Another very important fact is that Female brains are more compact than male brains, thus a lo t of men say that they are more intelligent than women but the truth is that  though smaller, female brains are more densely packed with neurons, particularly in the region responsible for language, in addition to this, many recent studies have concluded that IQ performances of men and women vary little; men are more represented at the extremes of performance, and less represented at the median. So according to these studies, regarding to intelligence, there are no basis in order for a man to say that men are better than women.

Despite that is has been proven that such differences pretty much do not exist, it is not easy to get rid of this issue, and you may ask why? Well, this is pretty much because our Sociology, the gender role claims that men and women learn the appropriate behavior and attitudes from the family and overall culture they grow up with, but I believe is time for a change. Throughout time we, the human race, have been able to evolve in every field you could possibly think of, but the gender inequity is one of the issues that we, as a society, have not let go, we still believe in the ancient ideas of men being better than women from our past generations when we also should have moved on with our ideas and create equality for everybody.

As a conclusion, human beings have habited this planet for about 200,000 years, and after all that time mankind has realized that we need gender equality, but there still are a lot of people who deny to accept that this need is a fact now, therefore, despite that there has been a progress in the way male people treat women and also open up more opportunities for them, we can say that it has not been enough. And I know it is not an easy task to do but I rely on our evolution as society and I believe that we can completely eradicate this issue from our lives.