Academic sources for culture and inequality

The two academic sources for this week’s review are;

a)      Gender Equality Oversimplified: Using CEDAW to Counter the Measurement Obsession

b)      Unsex CEDAW? No! Super-sex it

The first article explains the ideas on the universal magnitudes of measuring gender equality develops initial identification on policy education and directing resources to tackle gendered disparities. The fabricated view of social ratification on gender equality according to Liebowitz and Zwinger is that CEDAW is being manipulated to measure the fixation that there is inequality on gender. It is argued that women’s privileges as linked to social processes and cultural beliefs can be a gender hierarchy and the recognition could be misleading.

The extensively acknowledgement of global control on realistic gender relationships can be hard to find, and Tonga can be in line with the preoccupation that these privileges are culturally based. However, given that perhaps it is oversimplified Tonga doesn’t use CEDAW to measure it but rather petition for its abolishment completely. There are nine measurements in the article that points equality indexes. The article also mention “I’m better than you” which in my opinion Tonga’s women is using as a tool for not agreeing with CEDAW fundamentals, but then Tonga is not better off because there are no women representatives at any levels of government.

The second article hashes out that women are not blessed with similar prospects as men. Men benefits the upper hand of opportunities that women don’t get. The article focuses on arguments that the approach should change from gender focus preferably to heavier emphasis on sex. The author agrees that CEDAW provides women with protection although the flawless CEDAW seems to be isn’t the whole picture that it paints it to be. Women still face the challenges that men treat them as not equal in work places or any other place. Tonga is experiencing the same thing women don’t receive the same opportunities.

Additionally, the United Nation’s CEDAW policy points out that women should have equal rights, opportunities, and evolution. Women’s progression globally is viewing as success to equality and proof that countries that are rectifying CEDAW are shifting to change. It further validates that women’s injustice and violence are caused by cultural influence and impenetrable traditions. Tonga’s women are outcast to fairness and justice because they are supported by culture and traditions and therefore are struggling with discrimination. There are no women representation at any higher levels of government.