‘Women’s issues are social issues’. Discuss
The women’s issues involve identifying and challenging those elements in society which are gendered in nature and highly detrimental to women for developmental perspectives and which exclude or disadvantage women. They questioned how “universal” values are defined, how “truth” is distorted in directions that serve male interests.
The “women’s question” often asks about the gender implications of social practice. Under these debates are broader issues of gender equality and sex differences. What is the significance of these sex differences? To answer this question sociologists have to examine two related issues:
a) The magnitude of sex differences; and
b) The consistency of these differences across the global societies, time periods and situations.