Gender and Equality: An Analysis on the Concept of Biological sex, Gender and Equality in the Context of African Women

Abstract

Many voices have been heard yearning to minimize the social gap between men and women to eliminate gender patriarchy in societies and to equalize all people at the same level. This indicates a difference in treatment between men and women or males and females which should be reduced or put to an end to ensure equal opportunities among people regardless of their biological sex or gender (Counts, 2018). However, although gender equality is fought for by everyone in our societies, biological sex and gender are two confusing concepts that make some people not to understand their social sides in societies which makes people to end up fighting for women’s equality other than gender equality. Therefore, this article tries to make a comprehensive explanation of biological sex and gender as some of the factors on which gender equality is based. This is because gender is built on the biological sex of every person which is a justification that our social sphere plans are on top of the biological world for the present gender planning (Cameron, 2009). The fact is that everyone in our societies belongs to a certain gender with desires for his or her gender which puts gender at the center of our social lives. Although biological sex determines gender, gender is not reprieved naturally from sex (Rubin at el, 1974) that is why people in societies behave differently in doing their activities which makes one gender more superior to another hence inequality. So, in this article gender inequality against women living in Africa has also been explained.