The existence of women in major sections of the society has given big changes over the past 50 years in many societies across the world. However, these societies cannot state that they have obtained gender equality. I personally disagree with this statement based on several facts that happen in my country.
In Indonesia, since the action that has been done by R. A. Kartini (an activist of gender equality many years ago), many people show appreciation to women due to what women can actually do for their country in general. As it seen for the past 15 years, the positions of women in politics are increasing. Indonesia's people have experienced being led by a woman as their president, women as mayors in some cities and also many activists today are women. This shows that people have accepted and can claim that they already gained gender equality to a larger extent.
Moreover, not only in politics and social actions that women made changes on but also in education and entrepreneurship. There are numbers of women who get into higher and higher level of education. We can see this phenomenon in schools or colleges where the percentages of female students are higher than male students. It contradicts the situation in the past in which only males could experience formal education. The number of women in charge also increases in entrepreneurship. There are many CEO or manager spread inside this country from small company to the biggest one.
To sum up, it is true that there are still many violent happen against women, prostitution including underage women and also murder cases to women all over the world that indicating inequality of gender, but the percentage of women in politics and other aspects of society has proven that society has claimed the achievement of gender equality.
The existence of
women
in major sections of the
society
has
given
big
changes
over the past 50 years in
many
societies
across the world.
However
, these
societies
cannot state that they have obtained gender
equality
. I
personally
disagree with this statement based on several facts that happen in my country.
In Indonesia, since the action that has
been done
by R. A.
Kartini
(an activist of gender
equality
many
years ago),
many
people
show
appreciation to
women
due to what
women
can actually do for their country
in general
. As it
seen
for the past 15 years, the positions of
women
in politics are increasing. Indonesia's
people
have experienced
being led
by a woman as their president,
women
as mayors in
some
cities and
also
many
activists
today
are
women
. This
shows
that
people
have
accepted
and can claim that they already gained gender
equality
to a larger extent.
Moreover
, not
only
in politics and social actions that
women
made
changes
on
but
also
in education and entrepreneurship. There are numbers of
women
who
get
into higher and higher level of education. We can
see
this phenomenon in schools or colleges where the percentages of female students are higher than male students. It contradicts the situation in the past in which
only
males could experience formal education. The number of
women
in charge
also
increases in entrepreneurship. There are
many CEO
or manager spread inside this country from
small
company
to the biggest one.
To sum up, it is true that there are
still
many
violent happen against
women
, prostitution including underage
women
and
also
murder cases to
women
all over the world that indicating inequality of gender,
but
the percentage of
women
in politics and other aspects of
society
has proven that
society
has claimed the achievement of gender
equality
.