Oppression And Discrimination Of Women

Oppression and discrimination of women

Introduction

For lagarde, he uses conception as a basis for defining the term of women, according to Lagarde, there is a generalization of humanity when the word man is used, in which, said term subsume to women, reiterating the oppression that hasThere were by making human invisible, it also confirms the oppression that has existed when it is exalted to the masculine and its dominance constituting it in a representative image that massifies or generalizes humanity, raising it to a higher position.

Developing

While other subjects or human are submissive, positioning themselves at a lower level, this has been the product of dogmatic ideologies that has caused inequality. Given what is described, when the term of women in the human word is included, it has caused alteration in the perception that has been had on humanity. However, this disturbance has not yet affected in practice, nor has it been installed in the culture, or in the mentality of people and in society;because there are still institutions that defend the rights of humanity. 

But that they consider as discrimination when using the term of gender and women, since for them the expression of men also refer to women. Therefore, being including the terms of female, male and gender has caused confrontations to a culture where patriarchy has prevailed, that is, an antifminist culture. In sociology there is a distinction between sex and gender. When addressing the issue of sex, it is when it refers to the biological features that society uses to assign people, using the category of men and women.

Gender is broader, it is a concept that describes how societies determine and manage sex categories;the cultural meanings linked to the roles of men and women;And how individuals understand their identities. Gender implies social norms, attitudes and activities that society considers more appropriate for sex. Gender is also determined by what an individual feels and does. The term gender distinguishes the set of expectations learned, behaviors and attitudes about being a man or a woman from the biologically determined features, collectively called as sex. 

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In another term it can be indicated that it is the social construction of the roles of men and women in a specific culture or location. According to the indicated authors, gender is influenced by culture, social relations and natural environments. It refers to the way in which a person communicates gender identity to other people through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice or body characteristics. This concept is intimately related to the concept of gender role, which is defined as the external manifestations of personality that reflect gender identity.