Religion Is A Major Source Of Gender And Sexual Inequality

Religion is a major source of gender and sexual inequality. Religion is important in society as it contributes significantly to social solidarity. However religion can also be regarded as a source of alienation in which people lose the connection with themselves and their fellow humans. Marx believed that religion can also be seen as a contributor to oppression because not only does it encourage meekness and passivity and deflected people from resisting suffering in this world (Van Krieken et al 2014, p.312). The ideas of masculinity and femininity, expectations of women and men, judgments of women s and men s actions, rules about proper male and female behavior applied to children, different treatment between men and women are all ideas†¦show more content†¦Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development states during a child’s age of 2-7 â€Å"speech becomes more social†¦has an intuitive grasp of logical concepts and concepts formed are crude and irreversibleà ¢â‚¬ , which makes a child or children tremendously vulnerable to social perceptions set by the parents who’s perceptions are influenced by their particular religion (Child Development Institute, 1999-2015) Throughout all children’s upbringing social programming is involved. Social programming occurs when parents pass down morals, values and behaviors to they’re children with religion being but not limited to the result of social programming. Taking a child to a certain church consistently will allow that child or children to identify him or herself as a part of that specific religion. With finding their place in religion children develop behaviors, values and morals that their parents have learned in accordance with their gender. Gender inequality is strongly influenced at a young age and is passed down from generations to generations Another factor of gender inequality in the upbringing of children are gender roles. The division of chores at home forces a developing awareness of unfair normative gender stereotypes on children from a dangerously young age. Spain expects equality of all adults, having enshrined legal sanctions against married men who refuse to do housework in 2005 and also the latest