Essay On Gender Inequalities

Social inequality has been happening for decades and still continues to be a significant problem. According to Dr. Charles Walker, “Social inequality is the ways in which social categories of persons (according to characteristics such as gender, age, ‘class’ and ethnicity) are differentially positioned with regard to access to a variety of social ‘goods’” (Walker, 2009). Within social inequality comes gender inequalities. Gender inequalities refers to ways in which one gender receives greater positives and perceptions than those of the other gender. Many cultures view and portray these inequalities very different, yet some are very similar in how poor they treat women. Throughout each book, Persepolis and I am Malala, there were distinct gender inequalities. In this essay, I will compare and contrast how gender inequality is a key theme in both books.
The social change theme that is truly visible throughout these books two books, Persepolis and I am Malala, is called human rights and human development. To dig deeper than that, the focus will be on the rights of women
In Persepolis, women were forced to wear their veil, while men didn’t have to. One day when Marjane didn’t wear her veil, two men verbally assaulted her and told her that she should be thrown into a garbage. Marjane had to live with that thought in her head all the time. It then became mandatory for women to always wear their veil in public. In I am Malala, Malala saw very early on the roles of men vs women. In chapter 8, it became more apparent that men were praised more for their work than women. Men were supposed to go to work while women had to stay home. While women were home, they often did not get the same praise that men did when they were at work. These are distinct similarities and differences within these books that tend to gender