Gender Discrimination Should Not Be Done

ture has always maintained a balance in the objects of this world in order garnish it with a beauty, and so it produced a balancing factor for each and every object. These balancing factors vary in the proportion of the support they provide to their counter part.

In the same context men & women are considered as the supporting counterpart for each other, but the major conflict in this systematic support is the term ‘gender discrimination'.

‘Gender discrimination' is often based on gender stereotypes of a particular society, i.e. considering men physically strong and women as emotionally sensitive. It is because of the fact that the term ‘gender' is often conflicted with the term ‘sex'. Both the terms are used as synonyms of each other in normal context, but there's a technical difference between the both. ‘Sex' is a biological differentiation of individuals, categorizing them as males and females, this difference of individuals is same in all the cultures, while ‘gender' is a social differentiation of individuals which categorizes them as ‘masculine' and ‘feminine'. This difference determines the role of individuals in a particular society. The role of individuals in different societies is different and thus the role of gender is variable in accordance with the prevailing social setup.

‘Sex' and ‘gender' are different in origin but basically the general role of individuals in a particular society is partly based on the physical potentials of individuals. Along with physical requirements individual must have to use his / her mental capabilities in order to move in the society. Gender discrimination in its originality is a phenomenon, by which the role of individuals is determined with in a particular society. Gender Discrimination allows the distribution of the social responsibilities among the members of the society in such an effective manner that one can fulfill his/ her responsibilities by using his/ her physical and mental capabilities at optimum. The conflict of gender discrimination arises when only physical part of one's strengths is considered and the mental part is neglected. As a result of such half considered phenomenon, individuals are categorized as ‘strong' and ‘weak', ‘emotionally strong' and ‘emotionally sensitive', ‘competent' and incompetent', ‘leaders' and ‘followers' etc. In this case the gender discrimination doesn't remain in its totality or originality and is considered as a factor deteriorating the process of development of human skills.

The major determinants of gender discrimination include the social setup, culture, religion, geographical conditions, economic setup, moral standards and education level of the society. All these factors individually or in combination make up the face of gender discrimination. But the conflict of gender discrimination is divergent in nature as it originates from a single point with different angles. And that point of diversion is ‘Male Chauvinism". The term ‘male chauvinism' is a prejudiced belief of an individual or a group of individuals that men are the superior to the women. The ‘male chauvinism doesn't stop on biased categorization