Why Are There Still Women Who Are Treated Unfairly?

Do you know that gender equality is still difficult to achieve? Women are the most frequent victims in this case compared to men. They don't get the right treat in society and there are still many cases about the women that are fighting for the sake of freedom. After many years, this case continues until this day. 

Women often feel the misery of the injustice in gender equality and cause a lot of suffering for them. The saddest thing about this case is, it is still happening in all over the world. Gender equality must be upheld so that the same case does not happen again every year, and women can get the justice.

If gender equality exists, people have the right to do what they want. In this case, people can't see the consequences of their actions. They will do whatever they want without thinking about anything that will happen to the environment, even themselves. 

In this case, the lack of instilling in oneself gender equality will make people have the wrong thoughts and have the wrong behavior in dealing with other people, such as speaking harshly towards other people, especially women because they have an attitude that underestimates women to do what they want. 

Author Earl Nightingale said: "We become what we think about," and Mark Twain wrote: "Life consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head." They can be impulsive. After all, they don't want to think before doing something to others because they didn't have the concern thinking about people's feelings regarding what they do. 

That action would make any reaction, and the reaction consists of a lot of consequences. Just as our actions have their consequences and there are still many people who don't care about them, even though realizing the consequences of what we do is important in the social environment we live in.

People might have the ability to do anything, but some chaos will happen. As we all know, freedom means that there are no binding rules in it, so we can do anything. The freedom to do anything with what is in the social environment makes some people, even the majority of men think that they are free to act on women.

 And this resulted in some chaos such as the form of violence that occurred in the family environment to the surrounding environment. This chaos is happening not only in one country, but many countries that have experienced it. So, the importance of the consequences of doing an action is still difficult for everyone to realize. How important the consequences are that can have a tremendous impact on other people who are mistreated, especially women.

Women and men should treat others equally and be treated equally, but people have their indifferent to gender equality because they don't get the importance of treating women and men equally. 

Kimberl Crenshaw, an American law professor explained Intersectional feminism as, "a prism for seeing how various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other," this proves that the fact that exists in a society that there are still many cases concerning society, especially women who do not get good treatment, can be seen from a prism that shows how human relations between one another do not work properly as they should. 

The freedom to do anything with what is in the social environment makes some people, even most men think that they are free to act on women. An environment that is used to doing things with a culture that is repeated continuously by the community makes this habit difficult to change. Changing for the better is a difficult thing, but if it continues it will be a very different thing. 

It will be very easy for them to continue the activities or actions they are used to in everyday life, without looking at the good and bad sides of it. It's the same with gender equality, where the freedom that exists in society makes them, especially men, go easy on women. This mindset that has been ingrained for a long time makes them free to treat women regardless of how women feel hurt due to their unfair actions. There are still many wrong stereotypes about women who should get the same treatment. 

This stereotype is still difficult to understand well by society and assumes that women should not get the same treatment. It is because of this stereotype that it is difficult for women to get voting rights that support them in public. Wrong stereotypes have been applied in environmental life, and it makes women have to fight more for justice and their rights just because society creates wrong stereotypes about justice for women. Just because the stereotype is wrong requires them to feel the misery first, and have to fight with all their might.

The perception is changing slowly but steadily, and it makes gender equality harder to be reached in reality. This perception takes a lot of time to be accepted and applied by everyone.

 The World Economic Forum estimates it will take another century before true gender equality becomes a reality. This proves that the existing perception will change, but it will still be difficult to directly apply to everyone's thinking, so changing it in people's behavior will also be very difficult to implement. 

This is also due to the lack of knowledge on gender equality. Knowledge about gender equality has a very big role in changes that can be implemented and occur in life. However, because many people do not know about gender equality, this is one of the reasons why gender equality is still difficult to achieve in this day and age. The existence of sufficient knowledge about gender equality can certainly affect changes in gender equality in society and make things better.

Basic knowledge can be quite helpful, and overtime if this knowledge has been obtained and can be applied to every one's behavior, then surely changes will occur and do not require such a long time. Another thing is that this case is still ongoing, so it is difficult to change people's perceptions. Yes, many cases of gender equality are still often found today. How not, the knowledge that is still lacking will continue to influence one's behavior and result in an explosion the number of people who do this is increasing rapidly. 

Things like this will then become the culture of the environment, so it will be very difficult to reduce the number of cases and even stop it, it is very difficult to achieve. People's perceptions of gender equality are still thin when compared to the many cases that have occurred, causing this dream for women to be very difficult to realize if there is a change of mind, changes in behavior in each person, and changes in culture that exist in the community's life. Not change immediately.

We all know that gender equality is still difficult to realize in this life because of the lack of public knowledge about the importance of gender equality, how gender equality affects women, and gender equality is still difficult to apply to everyone's points of view. However, if gender equality is enforced, it will change people's views about gender equality, reduce violence against women, and certainly can reduce the increase in cases of gender equality. 

We also know that gender equality is difficult to be implemented because everyone will have the freedom to do anything and will cause chaos, people are not aware of the consequences of their actions which are done as they wish, and there are still many people who do not care about gender equality. 

However, if we look deeper, gender equality can make everyone, especially women, able to do whatever they want, whatever they think is comfortable, without having to think about other people's views of them, everyone, especially women, gets the same treatment. Make the world a safer place for women to live in, and can reduce discrimination that is still common today, especially against women.

Of the many cases that have occurred and how people don't care about what women in the world feel and experience, we think this is enough evidence to change the world's view of the importance of gender equality, especially for women. What will happen to everyone in the future if equality is not enforced? These kinds of important things are neglected. Women must get justice. 

Wherever, whenever, against anyone, women must get that equality. How will the world change if the people don't want to uphold justice? So, from now on, gender equality should be upheld and should be implemented by everyone without exception, so that cases like this do not increase and can even help to stop this case.

Written by: Nova Elisa 2141124 & Yessa Natasha 2141148

References:

(2020). You Are What You Think: How Your Thoughts Create Your Reality. https://www.omaritani.com/blog/what-you-think

Emmaline Soken-Huberty. 10 Causes of Gender Equality. https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/causes-gender-inequality/

(2020). Intersectional feminism: what it means and why it matters right now. https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/6/explainer-intersectional-feminism-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters