10 Facts About Sexism You Should Know
Sexism’s mere existence in today’s day and age is a blot on the so called ‘developed world’ concept. Sadly, it still tends to live and feed on the existence of the women race. Women feel like lone soldiers fighting a losing battle. But there can be no change if awareness is not created among people about this widely rampant attitude called sexism.
1. The Concept
Sexism is a phenomenon wherein one sex or gender has a feeling of superiority over the other, thus resulting in harm to the other sex by all means-mental, physical and emotional through conscious or unconscious efforts. Here are some other facts about sexism that would open your eyes to this concept and its negative aspects.
2. The Onset
Sexism starts during early childhood, and grows stronger in the pre-teen years. It is usually seen that children have a natural tendency to shun other children of the opposite gender and have friends of the same gender. Believe it or not, it is parents who unconsciously root the concept of sexism in their children’s minds.
3. The Past
The term ‘Sexism’ was coined only in the 20th Century. Even the United States identified women as legal entities as late as 1875 and it is much later that the world began identifying the true potential of women.
4. The Present
Gender discrimination still exists in majority of occupations and women are still considered below men, despite being capable of competing at an equal level on the grounds of physical strength and intellectual brilliance. Some organizations pay lesser salary, give lower increments and reduce the growth potential of their women employees in comparison to their male employees.
5. The Forms
Sexual harassment, male chauvinism, domestic violence are all, at some point in time, a result of sexism. They occur when men consider women as objects of sexuality and as the ones only destined to do household chores.
