Equality Makes World's Beauty.

"Gender equality" attempts to create true equality between men and women by profoundly embedding the concept of human rights in society's soil. For the first time in human history, equality between men and women has become a universal value, and the social structure has been constructed to realize that concept.However this concept is not at a good level especially in Asian countries.Moreover Sexism is become a social issue and we shoul talk about this too when we talking about gender equality.This mostly affect on women or turned into women later than men.Not only for elder people but also with school aged students have these matters and as my point of view it is happen because the background of their familes.

Here's Some Background History On Gender Equality!

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The gender equality movement began with the first wave of feminism which occurred in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
This movement aimed towards over turning officially mandated gender inequalities. Can anyone guess the major one?
The second wave of feminism lasted from the 1960's- 1980's(late).
This wave however focused on the social issues such as reproductive rights (abortion) and workplace rights
The third wave is still occurring. It has been a response in the backlash arising from the second wave. This wave is purely just promoting the ideas of diversity & change

What is Gender Equality ?

‘Gender equality’ or the ‘sexual equality’ is defined as the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender, according to Wikipedia.Simply it says that both men and women should treat equaly.Not only men and women but also any gender.Any gender should have the same opportunities for the achievement of important goals, in society like education, employment, politics and social works.

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Why Gender Equality is important?

Gender equality is inherently linked to sustainable development and is essential for the realization of human rights for all.Gender inequality is affects everyone in the society.If we take children, some countries still have problems to access to education for girls,especially in Asian countries and luckly in my country most time both girls and boys deserve free education.Reaserchers say that countries with greater gender equalities are more connected,people are healthy and more wellbieng.As I see countries like these live more happily.When gender inequality increases violance also increase.

Gender Equality in Sri Lanka

UNDP, MEA, Ministry of Women & Child Development launch media campaign to advance gender equality in Sri Lanka.Click here to read article

According to WEForum Gender gap ranking report - 2021 Sri Lanka ranked at 116 out of 156 countries.However we were at 102nd place in 2020.So sadly we get down from 14 places.and scored only 0.670 and wchi it reduced 0.009 points than last year and 0.006 than year 2006 report.

Global Gender Gap Report ( World Economic Forum )

Below table presents the 2021 Global Gender Gap rankings and the scores for all 156 countries covered by this year’s report. Although no country has yet to achieve full gender parity, the top two countries (Iceland and Finland) have closed at least 85% of their gap, and another seven countries (Lithuania, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Rwanda and Ireland) have closed at least 80% of their gap. Geographically, the global top 10 continues to be dominated by Nordic countries, with Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden in the top five. The top 10 is completed by one country from Asia Pacific (New Zealand 4th), two Sub-Saharan countries (Namibia, 6th and Rwanda, 7th, one country from Eastern Europe (the new entrant to the top 10, Lithuania, 8th) and another two Western European countries (Ireland, 9th, and Switzerland, 10th, another country in the top-10 for the first time).

You can read and check more about this report and previous years reports from weforum website.Here is the link for it.:https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2021

How to achieve Gender Equality ?

If we are allowed to talk each other (Girls and Boys) and also allow to consider girls’ or womens’s ideas we can reduce the gap between two genders.And most important thing I see as a Student and especially educated from Sri Lankan government school, school syllabus should updated with lessons with more gender sensitive and also about sexual life.Moreover I think in political side both men and women should take part equally.Not only in politics, but also in other social activities or any other work both men and womens’ ideas should consider equally.We should stop violence to achive gender equality and allow all genders to work together.I think this last point too can start from educational level(School).

Sexism

According to Wikipedia Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but it primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked to stereotypes and gender roles, and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another. Extreme sexism may foster sexual harassment, rape, and other forms of sexual violence.This is a societal concern not just because of the disparities in rights and advantages between men and women, but also because it encourages women and men to act in accordance with ancestral roles.

What is Sexism and Feminism : https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-sexism-3529186

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