Gender Inequality Throughout Middle School And High School

F****ism Gender inequality is an issue that has been affecting our world for a very long time. We see it all throughout history, from women entering the workforce for the first time, to women protesting on the street, fighting for the right to vote. An article in the Wall Street Journal reports that a man who works full time earns a median of $889 a week, a woman who works full-time earns a median of $721 a week. That s a $168 difference between males and females in the workforce. Also, what about the horrible names that girls are called throughout middle school and high school? Slut, hoe, whore, skank, all of these judgmental names are what women are called every day, whether it s true or not. Gender inequality is everywhere, but most†¦show more content†¦Therefore/ I will push Montague’s men from the wall, and/ thrust his maids to the wall† (1.1. 16-19). This not only states that women are weaker and should be thrown to the side, but the use of â€Å"thrust to the wal l† suggests that they feel that women are only good for sex. Romeo and Juliet took place in the middle to late fourteenth century. Some people today still have the same views on women, and this happened more than 650 years ago. The fact that these views are still in existence in regards to women shows that even though we are trying to change, we still have a long way to go. As the books were set closer to the present, we began to learn about injustices in the 1930s. In Harper Lee’s To kill a Mockingbird, Scout, Jem, and Dill are playing with a tire near the Radley’s house. Scout got in the tire and Jem pushes her, but she couldn t stop and ended up on the Radley’s front steps. Scout gets scared and runs back to Jem and Dill without the tire, and Jem had to get it. â€Å" ‘See there?’ Jem was scowling triumphantly. ‘Nothin’ to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it s mortifyin’ ’ † (50). The message this quote sends us is that being a girl is a bad thing. Anyone can get scared, but Jem is saying that just because Scout is scared, she s acting like a girl. Not only did he say that, but he s mortified about it. One last example of sexual innuendo that puts