Sexism And Gender Inequality

Gender may be defined as one`s identity as male or female. It is a social concept and this term according to Stebbins (1990) is related to the one`s awareness of oneself as a sexual being and as thinking, and behaving. The unequal treatment base on that identity is known as gender inequality.
Sexual classification has to do with the sexual identity of men and women and the sex role. Sex role is the behavior and attitude that is associated with the biological conditions of male or female. Another term that emerge is sexism; “is the belief that one sex is superior to the other” (Macionis; Gerber; 2004). That belief is the basis of patriarchy, that literary means “the rule of fathers”. All around the world patriarchy is applied in some degree, and of course it has consequences. Sexism affect directly to all women, it guards against feminine talent and it put limits to women`s ambition.
The result wherever stratification occurs is inequality”. Sexism affects especially to women, but also men suffer this kind of discrimination. Berlatsky (2013) declares that when men suffer sexism they do in the same way as women do, but not because feminist rule the world, but because though men being of a different gender, fall afoul of those stereotypes in different ways. Behind the inequalities that exist especially in the workplace and education is sexism and gender