10 Facts About Sexism You Should Know
6. The Male Story
Though sexism claims maximum victims from the female population from over the world, there is also a part of the male population who fall prey to increased sexism. However, in order to avoid a dent to their self-respect, men do not come out in the open to confess their trauma and thus, most of the cases go unnoticed.
7. The Third World Scenario
Sexism still claims a number of unborn female victims in the form of female infanticide and feticide, something that is prevalent even today in most underdeveloped and third world nations, where people think of a male child as a worthy investment. This is causing a terrible imbalance in the world wherein the ratio of females to males is decreasing, thus setting the human race back.
8. Religion
Most religions too discriminate against women with their traditions which show women in bad light. Religions show women as objects of temptation and urge men to shun them in order to reach godliness. Ancient traditions and cultures, some followed even today, require women to cover themselves completely, even their faces, in male presence.
9. The Middle Ages
In the Middle Ages, atrocities on women were tremendous wherein women with certain marks on their bodies were termed as witches and burnt alive or put up on the stake in public viewing by ‘Witch Hunters’. Most of these women were innocent and wrongly framed.
10. Education
Education, one of man’s bare essentials in the present age, is also deprived to many female students. Even in developed countries, professors think of their male candidates as more capable and tend to ignore the female candidates.
Sexism should be stopped with efforts from both the sexes and also with the efforts of the LGBT community. Complete eradication of such a concept would ensure a level of free and fair living and take mankind a few steps ahead in its constant effort towards development.
