ROOTS, ROUTES, AND REMEDIES OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION: AN ETHICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

Nowadays, women are supposed to stand shoulder to shoulder with men in every field. However, even then, some issues in our society make all these claims of women's equality worthless and demean humanity. In this article, one of those issues will be discussed, i.e., gender discrimination, whether women share the same equality as men in our society? There are many significant fields where it can be seen that gender discrimination is practiced, such as educational institutions, economic institutions, and even in their own houses. Gender discrimination is the worst practice of our society, which is caused by biological determinism. Biological determinism believes that individuals' biology directly controls human behavior, and based on biology, a gender (male) is supposed superior, and the second gender (female) is considered inferior. Patriarchal thoughts accelerated these morally dubious practices and proved that women are the second gender, no matter how much they have developed themselves. Not only this, but how female infanticide is practiced due to sexual discrimination. Is sexism different from gender discrimination? If the answer is 'yes,' then how both terms defer from each other. All these moot questions will be answered in the paper.