Gender inequality is a problem that continues even today. It can be really hard going into adulthood. It all starts in the family and learned through childhood interactions (Kimmel, 88). Girls and boys from birth are treated different from each other. These differences are created and reinforced through play, the media, and schools (122). Mothers tend to talk to girls more than boys during the first six months and respond faster to girls’ cries. Also, the boys are encouraged to be independent and go out into the world while girls are encouraged to move away from home later than boys. This teaches the children gender roles which may lead to ge

nder stereotyping (123). In play, girls are turned away from playing in certain sports and other different boyish activities. On the same hand boys are discouraged from participating in girl-like activities (125). These gender differences follow children up into their adulthood.

Gender inequality is also very prevalent in education and the workplace. In the past, girls and women were prohibited from classrooms. Men were the only ones educated and taught school. Teaching was seen as a very prestigious job until women started teaching. Then, teachers’ salaries dropped and it was categorized as “women’s work.” In 1994, 72.5 percent of all public and private school teachers were women and six out of every ten women teachers were elementary school teachers (Kimmel, 163). A trend is present in the labor force that when the more women in the profession the lower the salary. Between 1970 and 1980, female salaries increased 66 percent; mean’s salaries increased 70 percent (164). Women have not always been a part of the labor force. Not until recently, women stayed at home. Now, the percentage of both women and men entering the labor force has increased. The percentage of women working has risen from 20.6 percent in the 1900s to more than 76 percent in 1995. Women have also participated in all work fields (Kimmel, 173).

Although there are no direct consequences to gender inequality, there is a continuing ch

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