Gender Roles in Cross-Cultural Context and Influence on Women’s Rights

Gender Roles in Cross-Cultural Context and Influence on Women’s Rights
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Gender Roles in Cross-Cultural Context and Influence on Women’s Rights
Introduction
Ethiopia recently made headlines across the world following its leadership’s appointment or rather the election of its first female speaker for the nation’s House of People’s Representatives. The appointment makes for one of the historical events marking the continent’s growth towards the recognition of both the male and female genders as equally capable of holding powerful positions. Other countries across the world, such as Liberia, Croatia, Germany, and the United States boast of landmark achievements in the effort to establish equality between both genders and the binary individuals. The world celebrates such events or occurrences as victories over the oppressive patriarchal societies that have long denied women access to leadership positions across the social, political, and economic aspects of the global community. However, women’s achievements across the diverse dimensions of society should not evoke such reactions of celebrations or unique recognition from society as they currently receive. Effective implementation of the human rights provisions would function to provide equal opportunities for all without any form of bias. Like their male counterparts, women should have equal access to the social, political, economic, and cultural amenities available in society for development at both the individual and community levels. Unfortunately, such is not the case for a majority of societies around the world and thus being a norm to celebrate women’s success as foreign or unusual occurrences. The extent of the excitement or celebrations over the same differs from country to country or across the different regions around the globe. The disparities build on the premise of the diverse cultural backgrounds and their definitions of the gender roles of members of their societies across the divide. The differences are also indicative of the biased implementation of human rights as equality would function to provide equal opportunities for all and thus to appreciate all people for their achievements as capable human beings irrespective of their gender orientation. Provided herein are a comprehensive analysis of gender roles across the diverse cultural backgrounds and their influence in the actualization of women’s rights. An outline of the various aspects of gender roles including its definition in different cultural contexts is further provided for enhanced understanding of their influence on the actualization of women’s rights.
Gender Roles in Cross-Cultural Context
The Western Countries, for instance, are often perceived to be model societies on matters concerning the provision of equal rights for all through their orientation to democratic ideologies. Nonetheless, even the developed countries of the West still suffer some elements of a violation of women’s rights or biased implementation and exercise of human rights. The disparities witnessed in the dispensation of human rights across the gender may be as a result of various reas...