Discrimination among genders
What's the big deal?
Thousands of girls feel the pressures of today’s society to look a certain way and do certain things that may not be what they want to do. These issues come into play even more in public schools when girls are repeatedly looked up and down by multiple groups of people, such as fellow classmates, coaches and even teachers. Every day, many comments and acts are made towards girls, degrading their bodies and their identities of women in public schools. Many of these comments are made by their peers who participate in inappropriate activities that make women feel uncomfortable during the school day. This kind of inappropriate activity is better known as sexual harassment, or to go even more in depth, gender inequality targeted towards women.
Sexual harassment is extremely important in education today because it can be a terrible distraction in public schools. By harassing girls all day about their bodies and whether or not other people approve or disapprove of their body types, girls can become depressed, feel extremely uncomfortable, and they may not even want to come to school anymore. By degrading women, they feel as though they are not equal to men and that they are not as important as other people in today’s society. If they feel like they are being degraded, they will suffer academically because they will feel like a target when they attend school and they will be afraid for themselves.
Thousands of girls feel the pressures of today’s society to look a certain way and do certain things that may not be what they want to do. These issues come into play even more in public schools when girls are repeatedly looked up and down by multiple groups of people, such as fellow classmates, coaches and even teachers. Every day, many comments and acts are made towards girls, degrading their bodies and their identities of women in public schools. Many of these comments are made by their peers who participate in inappropriate activities that make women feel uncomfortable during the school day. This kind of inappropriate activity is better known as sexual harassment, or to go even more in depth, gender inequality targeted towards women.
Sexual harassment is extremely important in education today because it can be a terrible distraction in public schools. By harassing girls all day about their bodies and whether or not other people approve or disapprove of their body types, girls can become depressed, feel extremely uncomfortable, and they may not even want to come to school anymore. By degrading women, they feel as though they are not equal to men and that they are not as important as other people in today’s society. If they feel like they are being degraded, they will suffer academically because they will feel like a target when they attend school and they will be afraid for themselves.