Gender equality - one of the most important aspects of life in democratic Western countries, where women and men have equal opportunities and responsibilities in various spheres of life.Regardless of gender, citizens have equal rights in employment, they successfully combine family life and a career.The concept of "gender equality" appeared thanks to the experts of the UN, and now it is actively discussing not only developed countries but also in the developing countries of the third world.
gender approach
For thousands of years men and women had to fulfill various social obligations and the fair sex is almost always faced discrimination.Modern gender approach becomes complex sociocultural designer, reflecting the differences between people, different in behavior, social role, emotional and mental characteristics.According to this approach, a gender usually refers to a model of socio-cultural relationships between women and men in various institutions of modern society.
Features
In the 70 years of the twentieth century, gender equality was seen as the only women to obtain equality in political, social and economic life and non-discrimination of the fair sex to men.Subsequently, gender roles have shifted somewhat, and the inhabitants of democratic countries have revised duties in the family, and especially noticeable in Sweden.For most families of the Scandinavian countries the role of mothers and fathers in the upbringing of the younger generation becomes the same, and a man can take maternity leave to care for a baby and a woman - to build a successful career and to provide households in material terms.
concept
gender equality, especially that specified in the regulations of the United Nations stipulate that the peoples of individual countries should reconsider the "outdated" values and attitudes.For example, it may be the tradition regarding the consideration of women as a "homemaker", mother and wife, conducting free time in the kitchen and bringing up children.
On the other hand, gender roles are often treated in a different way.Thus, this concept affects a person's sexual orientation without considering the biological and anatomical features.This situation concerns same-sex couples seeking to build a sexual relationship, and the legislation of European countries provide for the official marriage of two men or women.In domestic practice, lesbians and gay men is not possible to register a marriage, but in practice every year an increasing number of same-sex families where one member plays the role of "breadwinner" and the other - "housewives".
Education
theory of gender affects the education of the younger generation, as well as training students.Thus, children of both sexes from early childhood carried the same approach without stereotypes, accumulated over the centuries.In addition to co-education of boys and girls, they are taught to behave in exactly the same way, without taking into account the social roles that they will have to carry into adulthood.
kids to kindergarten age are getting used to the "secondary" biological characteristics with respect to their own worldview.So then they do not have a gender identity based on gender, which leads to the fulfillment of the social role of old playing either women or men.So, thanks to such education girls will not build a relationship with the boys showing their own helplessness, resignation and expressing a willingness to obey.
