What was the origin of gender inequality?

Sally Kitch, director of the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University has covered 300 years of history tracing the connection between gender and race, and why the world sees men and women so differently. read more

“Gender as a substitute for ‘women’ is also used to suggest that information about women is necessarily information about men, that one implies the study of the other. This usage insists that the world of women is part of the world of men, created in and by it. read more

Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals wholly or partly due to their gender. [citation needed] It arises from differences in gender roles. Gender systems are often dichotomous and hierarchical. Gender inequality stems from distinctions, whether empirically grounded or socially constructed. read more

z. Evidence indicates that there are gender differences in academic achievement at this early age. z. To investigate why this might be, we began by exploring differences by school sector. read more