An exploration on the Nature of Gender Inequality: Are men and women fundamentally attributed by nature with equal ability and power?

Abstract

Gender inequality and the liberation of women had been a recognized social problem world-wide. The discussion lasted for ages, dating deep into history that it’s too far to know the exact happening and start of the stratification. As the society evolve, we do acknowledge the rise of the power in women’s hands-----women was given first time the right to vote in 1893, New Zealand (Soken-Huberty, 2024); The #MeToo starting in 2017 on twitter from a hashtag to a movement of women revealing the harms they experienced due to their sex, informing the world “the magnitude of the problem” (Jamillah Bowman Williams, Lisa Singh, Naomi Mezey, 2019). It is also clear, however, that such imbalance of power and treatment had yet not been solved with the dogged existence of workplace discrimination and conventions in need of questioning. Critics had informed readers with the origin and progression and changes of the disparity, advocated for the importance of addressing it. The issue is still there, so there’s more changes needed. Or, given its difficulty to be traced back and to be solved even after centuries of development and effort for liberation, is gender inequality ever an issue, or just a pattern of nature?