Global Citizenship & Gender Equality

Mission Statement: The purpose of this gender equality blog is to spread my perspective on gender equality to better educate society. I hope that these posts teach you something you didn't know, things you agree with, and most importantly, things you do not agree with. I want to start the conversation in my community to show people that gender equality is something that cannot be achieved without everybody's help. Gender equality is something necessary to the development of the world. Agreeing and disagreeing with my opinions and the opinions I show through my blog will, in my opinion, help this generation and future generations to not stand silent about issues that they care for. 

To me, a global citizen is someone who actively supports and works towards a better world. A global citizen is a person whose actions benefit their local, national and global communities, and is aware of their actions and the effects. Also, I believe being a global citizen is necessary and important. If people were not aware of global citizenship, our world would never have the chance to be as globalized and interconnected as it is today. 

Global citizens can be activists for many world topics/debates, or just a few. Global citizenship and gender equality go hand in hand. Gender equality is a world-wide issue that exists everywhere, including local, national and global communities. Global citizens can, and are, helping to solve and create awareness for gender equality issues.

Gender equality is the idea that both males and females (i.e. men and women, boys and girls) should have equal rights and opportunities. I think that these equal opportunities should be happening in social, economic and political areas. Gender equality includes views that men and women should not be discriminated against because of their gender, and that, simply put, the body they are born with should not limit them.

Within the past 100 years, the movement for gender equality has grown and evolved. Women and girls were seen as incapable of doing the same things as men. Women were expected to stay at home to do the cooking and cleaning, they were not allowed to vote, and they were not seen as real people. Men and boys were the ones expected to work and provide for their family.