HUMA 1780 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Estia, Human Rights Quarterly, Angela Merkel
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The history of the struggle for gender equality. Angela merkel and hillary clinton as a shining examples of women leading their nations. Topic sentence: in terms of education, women have worked very hard towards academic accomplishments, though when were never allowed even to attend school before. The role of culture in terms of culture. Topic sentence: culture has always been at the core of gender inequality for several decades. Before: women were viewed by society as expensive things that should be married off to earn wealth for their families. Now: today women are highly respected in civilized states; girls are given education and are allowed to work in areas that were previously the reserve of men. The evidence above therefore, proves that in today"s realities, gender equality is a very important factor that has been finally embraced by the human society. Therefore, women are entitled to be treated equally regardless of their gender.