Gender equality 性别平等,任重道远 英语作文

The position of women has changed a great

deal in many societies over the past 50 years.

But these societies cannot claim to have

achieved gender equality.

To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give

reasons for your answer and include any

relevant examples from your own knowledge or

experience. You should write at least 250 words.

Model Answer 1:

It is true that women in recent years have been

given an equal opportunity as men to participate

in some areas such as politics, education etc.

They are given 3% quota in members of house

representative in my country, Indonesia, and the

numbers of women who enter the schools are

getting higher and higher every year. However,

there are some areas that societies still restrict

the equality between men and women. I will

discuss further this issue through the essay.

I believe that women are still seen as the weak

person in the classical stereotype in traditional

people, particularly in some remotes area. The

traditional way of thinking still believes that

women should stay at home and do some house

works such as washing clothes, cooking some

food, cleaning the house as well as growing the

children. This condition tends to restrict the

freedom of women to enter the higher education

as well as participate more in political area or

economical area. The case of Indonesia women

migrant labour, moreover, who get violence from

the boss also proves that gender equality has

not been accommodated yet. People tend to

suppose that women are weak and men are the

superiority who have more power that women

which lead to the case of violence done by men

to women.

Some people believe that the idea of gender

equality has been approved through the policy of

30% quota in the political position, however, this

kind of policy is unfair considering the number of

women right now three times bigger than that of

men. This policy is not representative enough.

To sum up, the idea of gender equality should

be upheld comprehensively in all sectors of life.

It should be supported by government through

balanced policy without discriminating such kind

of gender.

Model Answer 2:

In recent days, it is quite common for women to

involve in several areas such as workplace and

governmental institutions and this is totally

different from the past decades. Some assert

that it is easy for women to participate in some

kinds of environment. However, some people

believe that women cannot gain the gender

equality because there is still injustice with the

women position. I totally disagree with this

viewpoint and this essay will look into the

reasons.

The first reason is that women have similar

rights to men nowadays. There is no gap

between men and women because they have

equal accesses to contribute to society. As a

fact that there are many women who involve in

workplaces even some of them gain an

important position such as an employer in

certain company. It proves that women have a

leadership capability as same as men. Moreover,

people think that men are stronger than women

thus they cannot take position equal to man.

However, I personally believe that women

already have the same capacity as men. Take

military service as an example, women recently

join in military such as police and army.

Therefore, there is no reason to say that women

cannot reach something like men do.

In addition, women nowadays have freedom to

express their opinions even becoming the agent

of change. There are plenty of women as the

representative of government such as being a

politician even ministers or presidents. As the

result, the power of women and men are similar

to the government position.

It is true that women sometimes are restricted

to be a leader for some case such as being a

decision maker in the family life. However, the

involvement of women in some parts of society

proves that they have an equal position and

power in this world.

In summary, it is not hard for women to obtain

education and pursue their career nowadays.

They even are able to be a great member of

society. Therefore, both men and women are in

the equality of gender because they have the

same rights in this life.

Model Answer 3:

The existence of women in major sections of

the society has given big changes over the past

50 years in many societies across the world.

However, these societies cannot state that they

have obtained gender equality. I personally

disagree with this statement based on several

facts that happen in my country.

In Indonesia, since the action that has been

done by R. A. Kartini (an activist of gender

equality many years ago), many people show

appreciation to women due to what women can

actually do for their country in general. As it

seen for the past 15 years, the positions of

women in politics are increasing. Indonesia's

people have experienced being led by a woman

as their president, women as mayors in some

cities and also many activists today are women.

This shows that people have accepted and can

claim that they already gained gender equality to

a larger extent.

Moreover, not only in politics and social actions

that women made changes on but also in

education and entrepreneurship. There are

numbers of women who get into higher and

higher level of education. We can see this

phenomenon in schools or colleges where the

percentages of female students are higher than

male students. It contradicts the situation in the

past in which only males could experience

formal education. The number of women in

charge also increases in entrepreneurship.

There are many CEO or manager spread inside

this country from small company to the biggest

one.

To sum up, it is true that there are still many

violent happen against women, prostitution

including underage women and also murder

cases to women all over the world that indicating

inequality of gender, but the percentage of

women in politics and other aspects of society

has proven that society has claimed the

achievement of gender equality.