GENDER INEQUALITY
THIS IMAGE SHOWS THE GENDER IMBALANCE IN CHINA. YOU CAN SEE ABOUT 5 BOYS, THEY ARE SLEEPING THERE KNOWING THAT THERE MOM AND DAD ARE GOING TO PICK THEM UP. THEY WILL LIVE A LONG MEANINGFUL LIFE. THEIR MOMS AND DADS WILL CARE FOR THEM, TAKE CARE OF THEM, BE THERE FOR THEM, LIFT THEM UP WHEN THEY ARE DOWN, AND PROVIDE THEM WITH WHAT THEY NEED. THE BABY GIRL IN THE FRONT HAS A DIFFERENT STORY THOUGH. SHE IS CRYING OUT FOR A REASON. SHE DOESN'T KNOW IF HER MOM AND DAD WILL COME AND GET HER, AND LET HER LIVE THE LIFE THAT THE BOYS NEXT TO HER WILL LIVE. FOR ALL SHE KNOWS SHE COULD BE PUT UP FOR ADOPTION. SHE WILL BE ABANDON BY HER PARENTS, HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE PAIN OF ORPHANAGES NOT KNOWING IF SHE IS GOING TO GET ADOPTED OR BE THERE UNTIL SHE IS LEGAL TO LIVE ON HER OWN. SHE HAS A TOUGH LIFE AHEAD OF HER.
IN THIS IMAGE YOU SEE HOW THE TWO PENCILS ARE FIGHTING TO WIN WITH MORE AMOUNTS OF ITS COLOR. THEY ARE FIGHTING TO WIN, WANTING MORE POWER OVER THE OTHER. THEY ARE STUCK NOT KNOWING WHO WILL WIN. CURIOS OF WHO IS GOING TO DOMINANT OVER THE OTHER. BOTH ARE WANTING TO HAVE "BRAGGING RIGHTS" OVER THE OTHER. THESE PINK AND BLUE PENCILS, REPRESENT US. WHO WE ARE AS THE HUMAN RACE. WE ARE SO DESPERATE FOR POWER THAT WE ARE FIGHTING THE OTHER GENDER.
GENDER INEQUALITY IS THE INEQUALITY OF PEOPLE DUE TO THEIR GENDER. IT IS PART OF THE WHOLE WORLD. YOU CAN T GO ANYWHERE WITHOUT SEEING SOME SORT OF FORM OF IT. IT IS FOUND IN DIFFERENT FORMS. SOME OF THEM ARE MORE NOTICEABLE THAN OTHERS, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. I EVEN FOUND A QUOTE SAYING, " No society treats its women as well as its men." IT MAY SEEM SAD, AND I WILL AGREE WITH YOU THAT IT IS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS HOW IT IS. HOPEFULLY, THINGS WILL TAKE A TURN FOR THE BETTER SOON RATHER THAN LATER.
ONE OF THE AREAS THAT HAS A MAJOR ISSUE REGARDING GENDER INEQUALITY IS CHINA. THEY HAVE SUCH A PROBLEM WITH THIS ISSUE. IT IS EVERYWHERE THERE, FROM EDUCATION, TO WORK, ALL THE WAY TO JUST THE DIFFERENCE IN HOW MANY THERE ARE OF EACH GENDER THERE. WITH THE EDUCATION IT HAS GOTTEN BETTER BUT IT IS STILL REALLY BAD. IN THE LAST FOUR DECADES THERE HAS BEEN A HUGE DECLINE IN ILLITERACY. IN 1987 THEY TOOK A SURVEY AND IT WENT FROM 88% ALL THE WAY DOWN TO A WHOPPING 15%. IN 1949 IN THE ENROLLMENT IN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES IT INCLINED TO 20% THEN TO 25% BUT THE DECREASED TO 22% BY 1958.
PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT HOW CHINA HAS THIS ISSUE HERE AND IT HAS IT THERE. BUT THE TRUTH IS THEY HAVE IT EVERYWHERE. YOU CAN GO THERE RIGHT NOW, AND JUST BY LOOKING AT IT YOU CA SEE THE GENDER INEQUALITY. THERE IS A LAW CALLED THE ONE FAMILY ONE CHILD LAW. WHAT IT IS, IS WHEN A FAMILY HAS A KID THEY CAN ONLY HAVE ONE. IF THEY DO HAVE MORE THAN ONE THEN THE MOM EITHER ABORTS THE CHILD, PUTS IT UP FOR ADOPTION, OR HAS THE BABY KEEPS IT AND PAYS A HUGE TAX, FOR HE OR SHE. WITH THIS POLICY PEOPLE ARE WANTING TO KEEP THE BOYS RATHER THAN THE GIRLS. WHY IS THAT? WHY DO THEY WANT BOYS AND NOT GIRLS? WELL THEY ARE WANTING BOYS INSTEAD OF GIRLS FOR MANY REASONS. ONE IS THEY SAY THAT THE BOY WILL DO LABOR, HE WILL HELP OUT, A GIRL WILL JUST BE A PERSON INT EH HOME THAT DOES HOUSE WORK. ANOTHER IS THAT THE BOY WILL CARRY ON THE LAST NAME, HE WILL GET A WIFE AND STAY WITH HIS PARENTS. A GIRL WILL MOVE ON, GET MARRIED, MOVE OUT, AND HELP A DIFFERENT FAMILY.