THE LIMITS TO SEXUAL EQUALITY, SOCIAL PRACTICE AND NATION BUILDING

Abstract

At this 21st century, it is the candid opinion of great section of humanity that the world has made a giant stride in its affirmative actions against various forms of discrimination on the basis of sex, gender and race. The crusade against sexual inequality, for example, has so advanced that to speak a different tongue is to be seen as not fully brought into the train of modern civilization or at best not enlightened. Indeed, this consciousness has done a great deal in correcting inadequate socialization and obvious marginalization. But if we are also fair enough, we would notice that a lot of things have gone the wrong way in terms of social practice and nation building because some issues have not been properly addressed. Though some gaps have closed up in many ways, especially in terms of rights, equal treatment and insertion into the mainstream socio-political life, women have not felt their natural ease and families have suffered the worst blows ever leaving nations so devastated. All these issues arise because we have misunderstood the respects in which men and women are said to be equal and what social roles nature in all its wisdom has endowed various sexes. This article is therefore set to appraise the milestones the present age has arrived in correcting some imbalances in the social practice of mankind, and then points out the right perspective of sexual equality and roles which would contribute meaningfully to better humanity and nation building.