Title: 4.6 Reducing Gender Inequality – Social Problems
Headings: 4.6 Reducing Gender Inequality
4.6 Reducing Gender Inequality
Learning Objectives
Reducing Rape and Sexual Assault
Key Takeaways
References

Content: These steps might include, but are not limited to, the following: Reduce socialization by parents and other adults of girls and boys into traditional gender roles. Confront gender stereotyping by the popular and news media. Increase public consciousness of the reasons for, extent of, and consequences of rape and sexual assault, sexual harassment, and pornography. Increase enforcement of existing laws against gender-based employment discrimination and against sexual harassment. Increase funding of rape-crisis centers and other services for girls and women who have been raped and/or sexually assaulted. Increase government funding of high-quality day-care options to enable parents, and especially mothers, to work outside the home if they so desire, and to do so without fear that their finances or their children’s well-being will be compromised. Increase mentorship and other efforts to boost the number of women in traditionally male occupations and in positions of political leadership. As we consider how best to reduce gender inequality, the impact of the contemporary women’s movement must be neither forgotten nor underestimated. Since it began in the late 1960s, the women’s movement has generated important advances for women in almost every sphere of life.