Frequently asked questions

Here are some frequently asked questions about gender equality and inequality, etc

• What is women's empowerment?
  • Women empowerment is helping women get their rights of education, political, health, and etc.Women empowerment is also when trying to stop things like young marriages, firing a woman because of pregnancy, and such.Women empowerment gets easily mistaken for gender equality or gender equity but women empowerment helps women with a lot of things and gets women their rights back. Some men also fight for women empowerment too.
• What is education equality?
  • Education equality is when, both girls and boys get the same treatment and same subjects.
• What is health equality?
  • Health equality is when, all patients get the same treatment from the nurses and doctors no matter the gender.
• What is gender equality?
  • Gender equality is when, both men and women, are treated and thought of equally. Gender equality is also when people aren't discriminated and abused because of gender.
• What is gender inequality?
  • Gender inequality is when, both men and women are not thought of and treated equally.It's also when people are being abused and discriminated because of their gender.
• What is gender equity?
  • Gender equity means fairness of treatment for women and men, according to their respective needs. Gender equity leads to gender equality.
• How will gender equality affect the society?
  • Gender equality would affect the society, by making it a better place for both men and women. It makes it a better place, because men and women need to pull the same weight to be able to have a good society. For example, in some jobs, men get more money than women. What if a women's husband doesn't have a job, or lost a job? The women might have a job, but since she is paid less, the money she gets might not be enough for her family. However, if she gets the same amount of money as men, which is a lot of money, it'll be enough for her and her family, it will also last a lot, hopefully, if she doesn't spend money on such things.
• What does gender inequality cause?
  • Gender equality is a major problem all over the world, and can cause many consequences. Gender inequality causes abuse and discrimination, because of gender. Discrimination and abuse can cause death, injuries, and physiological pain. Gender inequality is unequal treatment perceptions of individuals partly of gender. It can cause emotional problems and make people feel insecure. Gender inequality can cause women and men to feel less than one another, and feel underestimate Gender inequality causes people to stop working hard for what they want to achieve.
• What are the targets that people aim for to accomplish gender equality?
  • There are many people who support gender equality and have goals to achieve it. For example, the UN have many major goals, and if they are accomplished, then gender equality is achieved. The goals are to end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere, ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life, Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage, and much more.
• What progress has the world made with gender equality?
  • The UN has made progress with gender equality, for example women's empowerment has improved in the last few decades. Women and girl's access to education has grown largely, and the rate of child marriage declined. The world has created a women's day for women all around the world. Women have gained the courage to advocate and fight for their rights and independence in their cultures and others.
• Why should gender inequality stop?
  • Gender inequality should not only stop, so men and women get the same and equal rights, but gender inequality should also stop, because women are being abused, discriminated and not thought of the way they should be thought of. It's not fair!!! That's why we are trying to make a difference in the world! Women are no less than men! Just remember that! ALWAYS!
• What are the problems of gender inequality?
  • The rights of women are denied almost completely by each countries in the region, even though how their political system works. Women are not able to do most things that men do like in Saudi Arabia women are not allowed to drive, or even ride bikes,and men are not allowed to drive with a woman he is not related to at all. Saudi Arabia is now trying to figure out a way to get 367,000 girls to school in buses that can only be driven by men.The Ministry of Education is currently recruiting "Al-Ameen" who is basically a man who is trustworthy to drive a bus with a lot of female students to school.In 2001 a militant group called Lashkar-e-Jabar demanded that Muslim women in Kashmir wear burqas, head to toe garments that cover their clothes or men would throw acid in their face. Women also don't have much right to divorce with her husband while her husband can get a divorce easily, in Israel, a man must grant his wife a get, that can only be given by a man to his wife – never the other way around.