Inequality and Conflict and Social Justice

INEQUALITY AND CONFLICT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
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(January 29, 2012)
Inequality and Conflict and Social Justice
Inequality one of the common vices in the modern 21st century where the oppression in terms of age, sex, race, ethnicity and political affiliations are still common throughout the world. This is a trend which is even worse off in the third world developing countries in the world majorly in Asia and Africa. Income related inequalities and uneven distribution of property have seen a huge gap between the rich and the poor and has accelerated the rate of crime in some areas (Goodwin, 2007). It shows a tremendous regress to social justice as the systems get to favor the well of rather have a system where they rich get richer and poor poorer making it hard for the latter to get out of the misery.
Gender inequality has been seen from time in memorial as seen in religion where in the bible it was not possible for the women to go to the temple or become priest. Their roles were well defined as inferior especially showing that in the books, God is deemed to be male that society leaning to that line. In leadership roles, almost 80% of world leaders are male who often make some laws that oppress the women (Allen, 2006). But since the 18th century there has come up a group of women feminists who have taken up the role of fighting for an equal social status and though some even lost their lives doing that, they have come to be respectable and key figures in the society. These are the likes of Jeanne from France,
Women in some countries get lesser pay than the men in equal job ranks because of the concept that the men should be superior. In some countries, women are not allowed to work but instead they tend to ...