GENDER

INEQUALITY

WHAT IS IT?
The social, political, and
economic inequality of all
genders.
Unequal treatment of
perceptions of individuals
based on their gender.

Socially constructed
gender roles
Primarily the case of
nurture, not nature

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
HONOUR KILLINGS
CHILD BRIDES
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
DOWRY DEATHS
FGC IS STILL WIDELY PRACTICED (125M GIRLS)
WORLDWIDE, 14M GIRLS BETWEEN AGES 15-19 ARE MARRIED OFF TO AN OLDER
MAN AND FORCED TO GIVE BIRTH
IN SOME PLACES, WOMEN ARENT ALLOWED TO DRIVE

WHY SHOULD WE CARE?

MOST PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD IDENTIFY WITH A GENDER
AFFECTS ALL GENDERS
it matters to EVERYBODY regardless of their culture, ethnicity,
and even gender. All genders are affected by it.
IT IS 2015, AND...

WHAT IT RESULTS IN

16M GIRLS ARE

DENIED EDUCATION
WORLDWIDE

WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD AGED

15-44 ARE MORE AT RISK FROM
RAPE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
THAN FROM CANCER, CAR
ACCIDENTS, WAR AND MALARIA.

In the society that we grow up in we have been told

by our parents that men need to be strong, the man is

the provider of the family, men dont cry, if they feel the
pain, they cry from inside.

AROUND 80% OF
PEOPLE WHO
SUICIDE ARE MEN

1 in 4 GIRLS WILL 1 in 6 BOYS WILL BE

BE SEXUALLY
SEXUALLY
ASSAULTED BEFORE ASSAULTED BEFORE
THE AGE OF 18
THE AGE OF 18

GLASS CEILING

FOR EVERY DOLLAR A MAN MAKES, A WOMAN EARNS 74c FOR THE SAME JOB!

IT IS PRIMARILY THE
CASE OF NURTURE,
RATHER THAN NATURE

MY INSPIRATION
Yoko Ono
Her feminist ideals
Her Wish-tree

MY IDEA

An installation art piece

a tree (tentative medium: a small tree?)
Paper cut-outs of androgynous faces taking up different roles. Attached to tree branches
via strings

male kindergarten teacher

female fire-fighter
etx.

paper cut-outs of faces stringed from branches of the tree

My messages behind my piece is that gender inequality

is primarily the case of nurture rather than nature that
creates a social,economic, and political barrier between
the genders. If grown up the same way, there will not be
any indifference in the society.