"A state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender."
Discrimination based on a person's gender or sexual orientation, including examples of discrimination and strategies to combat it.
Historical context: Understanding the history of gender discrimination and civil rights movements is important in understanding the current situation and legal framework.
Definitions: Understanding key terms such as gender discrimination, equal pay for equal work, gender identity, and sexual harassment are essential in discussing and addressing gender discrimination.
Legal framework: Familiarizing oneself with the legal framework of gender discrimination laws and policies, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Equal Pay Act, and Title IX, can provide a foundation for understanding how gender discrimination is defined and addressed in the United States.
Discrimination against women: Examining the unique challenges and forms of discrimination that women face, including the gender pay gap and sexual harassment in the workplace.
Discrimination against transgender individuals: Understanding the challenges and forms of discrimination faced by transgender individuals, including access to healthcare, employment discrimination, and discrimination in public spaces.
Intersectionality: Recognizing that gender discrimination intersects with other forms of discrimination, such as race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, is an important aspect of understanding the complexity of discrimination and its impact on marginalized communities.
International perspectives on gender discrimination: Learning about how gender discrimination is addressed in different countries and cultures, and how it varies from place to place, can provide a broader understanding of the issue.
Perpetuation of gender norms and stereotypes: Examining how traditional gender roles and expectations perpetuate gender discrimination, and how these norms can be challenged and changed.
Feminist perspectives on gender discrimination: Understanding the feminist perspectives on gender discrimination and how it affects women's rights, roles, and representation in society.
Impacts of gender discrimination: Exploring the negative impacts of gender discrimination on individuals and society as a whole, including economic, psychological, and social consequences.
Hiring discrimination: Unlawful discrimination when an employer doesn't hire someone because of their gender, without any legitimate reason.
Unequal pay: When an employee, based on their gender is paid less than their colleagues who are performing the same job and have the same qualification and experience.
Promotion discrimination: An employer discriminates against an employee due to their gender, by either denying them promotion, opportunities for advancement or benefits tied to higher job responsibilities.
Harassment: When an employer or co-worker engages in unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature or creates a hostile work environment based on gender, it leads to harassment.
Pregnancy discrimination: Discrimination based on the fact that an employee is pregnant or wishes to become pregnant, i.e., when an employee is passed over for promotion, from getting leave or they may be terminated.
Retaliation: An employee lodges a complaint due to Gender Discrimination, and their employer responds by disciplining, firing, or any other negative response in response is known as retaliation.
"Gender neutrality and gender equity."
"Gender parity."
"To achieve equal representation and valuing different behaviors, aspirations, and needs equally, regardless of gender."
"Gender equality is strongly tied to women's rights."
"Harmful practices against women and girls, including sex trafficking, femicide, wartime sexual violence, gender wage gap, and other oppression tactics."
"Sex trafficking, femicide, wartime sexual violence, gender wage gap, and other oppression tactics."
"Less access to property ownership, credit, training, and employment."
"Archaic stereotypes labeling women as child-bearers and homemakers, rather than breadwinners of the family."
"They are far less likely than men to be politically active."
"Women are more likely to be victims of domestic violence."
"Gender equality is the fifth of seventeen sustainable development goals (SDG 5) of the United Nations."
"Gender inequality is measured annually by the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Reports."
"Gender equality does not require that girls and boys, or women and men, be treated exactly alike."
"Enjoying the same rights, resources, opportunities, and protections by women, men, girls, and boys."
"Gender equality does not require that girls and boys, or women and men, be the same."
"Gender equality often requires policy changes."
"As of 2017, the global movement for gender equality has not incorporated the proposition of genders besides women and men, or gender identities outside of the gender binary."
"Women are still much more likely than men to be poor and illiterate."
"Less access to property ownership, credit, training, and employment."