Category: Equality

Introduction: what is intersectionality? Intersectionality is an academic approach that helps us makes sense of the complexity of social reality by acknowledging the interdependence of different social locations or categories in peoples lives, such as gender or race, to explain their social situation and life experience. Intersectionality also helps us understand the mechanisms by which…

An issue about gender equality has absorbed much attention from the society and has become a popular topic discussed by all humans. While some experts argue that the gender equality is more likely taking disadvantages in many life events such as education and discrimination, others state at opposite opinions that the rights of different gender…

If the principle is that all men are created equal, why is it that society favours when one gender is expected to conform to a certain stereotype, and the other gender is, in turn, expected to conform to another? Why is it that society continues to conform to these stereotypes, whether they be gender, race,…

How would you feel if you were the only different person and felt the need to be someone you aren’t just to fit in? Unfortunately, many people feel and think like that due to people around them giving them unpleasant and hateful looks. We live in a society where this kind of problem isn’t rare.…

Martin Luther King Jr. is a prominent name that stands for the ending of racism, discrimination, and segregation of African Americans in the United States. On April 3, 1968, he spoke passionately about his support for the striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee in the speech Ive Been to the Mountaintop. King proves his stance…

Equality has been sought after by many and Americans have fought valiantly in order to bring equality within reach. The struggle for equality has been depicted by Harper Lees book, To Kill a Mockingbird, in the way the characters battle against segregation in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the late 1930s. While combating…

Martin Luther King Jr once said, ‘The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.’ In ancient times, the ability to read separated the wealthy and the poor, the educated and the ignorant, the free and the…

Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë, is classified as a bildungsroman, meaning it is a novel that traces the development of the main character from a young child to adulthood. After being orphaned as an infant, Jane struggled to find acceptance from the family members that raised her. Her status as an orphaned, impoverished woman…

«I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character » by Martin Luther King Two concepts have become part of the common-sense in current thinking about equality, they are…

In this essay, I will argue that liberty and equality possess the ability to stifle the other if elevated to excess, meaning a balance must be achieved between the two concepts for a society to properly function, as the absolute domination of either would result in a system that is devoid of justice. For the…