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Mr. Sellek
AP English
13 September 2016
A Humble Proposition
Gender inequality is a very real and prevalent issue among todays society. In the
workplace, women are constantly discriminated against. Women earn a lower salary than men do
for the same work. According to The Washington Post, Women make up almost half of the
workforce and outpace men in college enrollment, but yet they still earn only 94% of what men
earn (2016). The Washington Post explains that due to gender roles automatically assigned to
women, they are more likely to take off work to take care of a family member. In 2014, women
made up two thirds of Americas 20 million low wage workers (National Womens Law Center,
2014). Women are also more subject to domestic abuse than men. Additionally, 85% of domestic
abuse victims are female, while only 15% are male (Huffington Post, 2014). Men have more
political power than women, as only 19.4% of the seats in Congress are held by women in
America (Center for American Women and Politics, 2015). Besides these facts, both males and
females have delimiting gender roles that affect them economically and socially. Many people
agree that the issue of gender inequality needs to be addressed, but the method of solving this
dilemma is unclear. However there is an incredibly simple solution that will eliminate this issue
at its root.
To finally put an end to the age-old issue of gender inequality, the obvious solution is to
eradicate gender altogether. If the entire concept of gender is nonexistent, the social and
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economic disparity between the previously perceived genders will also become nonexistent. One
might wonder how gender could simply be erased from society completely, but it really is quite
simple. The first step towards the obliteration of gender is to erase the evidence of its impact
from society. To do this, the memory of the existence of two genders must be erased, and any
evidence of two genders in the media must also be destroyed. This will be a simple task, as it has
been done before several times by the U.S. government to erase other memories. One might also
wonder which gender, male or female, will be chosen as the remaining gender. The answer to
that is also clear--neither male nor female. By creating a new genderless gender, the issue of a
Advances in modern medicine have lead to the creation of a gender reassignment surgery
that will be used by force to convert all existing humans to the new genderless gender. As for
reproduction, it would be done by artificial means; no human will ever have to carry a child
again. New children are created in a lab where they are injected with a new Z chromosome-the
chromosome of the genderless. The new breed of children are extremely intelligent at birth and
do not require a guardian of any sort to care for them. Children are born with the capacity and
responsibility to take care of all their own needs, and do not need a superior to tell them what to
do. This new home structure will rid society of the constraints of a previously established
A world without gender would be the solution to more than just the concept of gender
discrimination. It would solve economic disparities, crime, and fill the education gap between
males and females. Without any gender to discriminate against, everyone would be paid equally!
Everyone would have college degrees! Everyone will be making $1,000,000 dollars a year and
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live in the same million dollar gated neighborhood because everyone will be equal. A genderless
world would solve crime and establish the representation of the newly homogenous population in
politics. A genderless society would achieve exactly what America has ever stood for:
opportunity to achieve success without the limiting factors of gender roles. A genderless society
integrates the importance of total and unrestricted equality. If all people are relatively similar, no
one has any advantages over others, and a numerous amount of opportunities becomes available
to all people.
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Works Cited
Paquette, Danielle. "Its 2016, and Women Still Make Less for Doing the Same Work as Men."
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/08/its-2016-and-women-still-
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Vagianos, Alanna. "30 Shocking Domestic Violence Statistics That Remind Us It's An
Epidemic."
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"Women in U.S. Congress 2015." CAWP. Center for American Women and Politics, 2015. Web.