Essay Sample on Empathy & Women: Discovering a Deeper Understanding

Introduction

The article Walking in Her Shoes is an exciting piece of writing that widens our and specifically my understanding concerning women and how everyone's perception of women influence our performances in real-life situations.

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To begin on the section on empathy, it is a great motivation in my end to learn that, rather than being sympathetic which Eisenberg defines as an "an emotional response stemming from another's emotional state or condition that is nor identical to other's opinion," we should be empathetic so that we become ready and willing to share other's bad experiences and offer some help to them according to our levels (Eisenberg & Miller, 1990).

In most occasions, I have learned to say sorry to different individuals facing various challenges and letting them sort out their problems. However, the article in support of Greenberg's views teaches that we should offer help to make others relieved from their suffering moments (Greenberg et al., 2001).

Additionally, the author of the article Walking in Her Shoes stipulates the struggles that women are going through or have gone through to make men and everyone understand that it is healthy and necessary to have qualified for both of the genders. I view gender just as a coincidence, and it is by default that an individual must be born of a given gender if not for the few instances of transsexual. A person being of an assigned gender does not deter him/her from doing a given activity (Malleson, 2003).

I must also make it clear that however, much the author articulates in the piece of writing that, currently there is a gender balance, we are still not in the same line. I consider this as a misunderstanding. Gender equality must only be claimed to exist, not when, I always find in the news several instances of sex trafficking, not when femicide cases is all over the developed countries who should instead act as the mirror images for the second and third world countries, not when in wars between men and women is still evidenced in parliaments, families and other places of work and finally not when men are consistently seen to be moving motions that they want to be passed and approved which are actually oppressing the rights of women.

Racial discrimination is one aspect that is profoundly made clear in the Walking in Her Shoes. The reading proves that sex and gender are still significant threats in trying to achieve gender equality. Recently while reading through some scholarly article, I found this article named Perceptions of police disrespect during vehicle stops by Warren, (2011). Warren explains that, by the year 2011, racism was still evidenced in some states of the USA, where white police officers used much force intimidate African American drivers or the Asian drivers. Moreover, if the African American or the Asian driver happened to be a woman, then the fine, or accusations would even be triple the regular charges. Going deep into the article, I realized that, the mistakes the blacks were typically being charged were minors that 90% of the cases got turned down whenever they got submitted to the high or supreme courts. This is just an indication that gender equality is still in its halfway success. I surely agree with the writer of Walking in Her Shoes where it states that "diversity is key in determining masculinity and allowing it to be open to everyone, and it will be accomplished eventually."

Conclusion

In conclusion, the readings have inevitably shaped my understanding of gender equality. It has also helped me to relate some of the experiences which I witnessed before and some obtained in articles, thus having a lot of ease in making references and drawing conclusions as to whether the fact the world has attained or it's on the verge of obtaining is a mystery or a factual story.

References

Eisenberg, N., & Miller, P. A. (1990). 13 Empathy, Sympathy, and Altruism: Empirical and Conceptual Links. Empathy and its development, 292. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=PVQ4AAAAIAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA292&dq=define+sympathy&ots=Km2O5wjmvz&sig=yGITqSDUrncJ0H39ctJQBNlfbxk

Greenberg, L. S., Watson, J. C., Elliot, R., & Bohart, A. C. (2001). Empathy. Psychotherapy: Theory, research, practice, training, 38(4), 380. Retrieved from https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2002-01390-005

Malleson, K. (2003). Justifying Gender Equality on the Bench: WhyDifference Won't Do. Feminist legal studies, 11(1), 1-24.

Warren, P. Y. (2011). Perceptions of police disrespect during vehicle stops A race-based analysis. Crime & Delinquency, 57(3), 356-376. Retrieved from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011128708316177