Persuasive Essay On Gender Equality

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Every person gets judged either by the way they look or simply by the way they act around people. Individuals get judged with height, maturity, and age but there 's one specific flaw that society is discomforted with and that’s Gender. “The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact” -Christine Tsai. This quote deeply states on why societies thoughts against gender need to change and why it’s important to make everyone feel safe and welcomed. It wouldn’t be called equality if society still has a problem with it.
With this intention, the article by The Entrepreneur called “3 Reasons Why Gender Equality is an 'Everyone ' Issue” there was a problem dealing with status of gender equality. “It 's 2017, but the gender-equality conversation continues, with women still facing obstacles in the workplace. Just last week, the tech industry highlighted the major thought divides that persist, when Google fired a senior software engineer. The engineer had sent a 3,300-word document to the company’s internal networks, slamming diversity initiatives and noting his personal view that women aren’t equally represented in leadership because of ‘biological causes.’ He said men have a higher drive for status than women do.”(par 1 and 2).However, in this doing Google had a problem with a female engineer being in the