Gender Equality.

Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.

To avoid complication, other genders (besides women and men) will not be treated in this gender equality article.

In this era, gender equality is very important. Why? Because we are no longer in an era where men are higher than women. Gender equality is necessary and there are already many women who prove that women can do what men do. There is also our national figure Mrs. R.A Kartini who upholds the importance of gender equality.

Gender equality is very important for both genders because both genders have the right to get the same rights as free from discrimination and restrictions on the limitation of rights without any accompanying fear.

UNICEF says gender equality "means that women and men, and girls and boys, enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities and protections. It does not require that girls and boys, or women and men, be the same, or that they be treated exactly alike.

In several countries, especially Indonesia, gender equality has not yet been fully fulfilled, especially women in the fields of education, politics, and employment. For example in the field of education there are still many in the minds of the community who say that women do not need to go to higher education because they will still end up in the kitchen and look after their husbands and children later. Whereas in the political field, for example, the DPR quota is like a political party where 30% of its members must be fulfilled by women and sometimes the quota is not fulfilled and if fulfilled, women only become displays or decorations so that they can enter the DPR only to fulfill the quota only for women to do the task is only to fulfill the existing quota. This example does not intend to reduce the degree of men or women but there may be some women who have not been competent to take care of politics and maybe that's why women rarely enter politics. And in the case of work, for example in maternity leave, it is restricted and also in the case of work, women rarely become leaders of directors and are only held by men and do not know whether because of the quality of women or what. The point is gender equality has not been achieved either in Indonesia or in some outside countries.

Equal doesn't mean the same.

Actually equality is the same as raising one gender to lowering another. Because gender equality is more about women (yeah I know women are often the subject of gender injustice). But, men also do not have to be demeaned in the sense that for example in the burden of doubles, because there as if women are too busy. Whereas in that case there can be an agreement in the household how to take care of the house, children, and finance the family (except if the husband is authoritarian). Rather than gender equality, it would be better to call gender unity.