Schindler's List

Schindler’s List is a movie that was set during world war 2 where there are conflict between the Nazi and the Jews.  Oskar Schindler who is one of the member from the Nazi party save the lives of those under oppression of the Germans.  

In the movie of that era, it does portrayed gender inequality where the male are way more superior than the female.  This is being showed in the movie where the female will be capture either work as a laborer, slave or sex partner.  This gender inequality occurred due to the roles that are given by the society.  Women who live under that period of time are confine with role of mothers and spouse even for though whose husband are from the Nazi Party.  

This is because that society at that period of times thinks that woman was teh notion of motherhood and procreation for those of child bearing ages.  The Nazi model of woman did not have their own career, but wads responsible for the education of the children and for housekeeping.  For example, Oskar Schindler’s wife has no right to scold his husband for being betrayed their marriage when she found out that her husband is having sexual relationship with another woman.  Aside from that, there are also a lot of scenes in the movie that portrayed the unusual treatment that received by the female especially to those who are Jewish.  Many Jewish female are act as the prostitute and even sex slave for the Nazi male to release the sex desire whenever they want it.   

Not to deny, gender inequality not only happen in the past but it still exist nowadays especially happen in the less developed country like Yemen, Pakistan, Syria and etc.  This can be explain generally by the norms such as patriotically and culture norms that exacerbate favoritism towards male than female.  For example, in India and China who practice patrilocality and concern for women’s “purity” help in explaining the male-skewed sex ratio and also low female employment rate.  This cultural norm has lead to the society that male proportion are more than the female proportion that may also lead to why there are many male could not find their life partner due to the imbalance proportion of male and female.  

In conclusion, gender inequality starts from the culture norm of the people and should end with people.  By changing our perceptions toward female and male, it will decreased the stereotype that people would have towards both gender on capability and also superiority.