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Conformity: Women, There is no silver bullet that can instantly eliminate…

- - - - Interventions at the social and relational level should attempt to create places and opportunities for opposing and modifying unequal norms.
        
        Finally, programs that aim to create and maintain equal or inclusive environments at the institutional level (including the family, schools, and health facilities) must be developed. The social norms that originate and maintain detrimental cultural practices that push females out of school may be abolished with these interventions in place.
- - - - “Culture” is typically defined by sociologists as a set of values, norms and beliefs among a group. It may refer to the traditional culture in Afghanistan, of football fans in Argentina, or of university students in Sweden.
        
        One of the contentious areas where women's rights have historically been and continue to be mediated through cultural practices is the (in)compatibility between women's human rights and custom, culture, and tradition. While some claim that culture and tradition are detrimental to women's rights, others argue that culture and tradition are protective of women's human rights.
        
        So it is the societal structure and opportunities made and enjoyed by men that create a 'cultural' subordination of women undermining their rights. The cultural and traditional factors that perpetuate discrimination and hamper women's human rights are not only confined to traditional communities and societies rather the practice of patriarchal norms that are found everywhere including the western cultures.
- - - - The short skit's plot centred around a practice known as Ukuphuma KweZintombi (also known as "Coming out Ball"). Girls and young ladies dress up in their nicest clothes (both western and Zulu costume) during this event, which are typically purchased or manufactured specifically for the occasion. The girls play local songs and march around the field on the day of the festival, which is held in an open field. This is for unmarried guys and polygamous men who want to choose a wife from among the girls.
        
        From female genital mutilation, virginity testing, early and forced marriages, and abductions, girls and young women in many communities globally continue to face harmful traditional practices. ( reminds me of an episode of Law & Order:Special victims unit, where a girl is found dead with gential mutilation.We later learn that she was willing to go through with the genital mutilation because that’s what girls in her culture were expected to do.)
- - - - When she was younger, a Korean student begged her parents to let her play sports, but they only permitted her to learn piano since it was "more suited for girls." ( Girls aren’t allowed to do many things because it makes them seem less girl-like).
- - - - She broke a lot of cultural norms, and she never stopped even though others around her were telling her she was doing the wrong thing and that she wouldn’t be able to deal with the consequences.
        
        She stayed true to herself and never allowed to change her
        
        She Never allowed society or cultural norms or beliefs stop her from getting the life she had always dreamed of.
- - - - Gender is interwoven in sociopolitical circumstances, the institution and demographics of marriage, as well as religious and other cultural connotations in Toushe and Jibeishua villages in southwestern Taiwan during the second quarter of the twentieth century.
      - Research on gender inequality within different-sex marriages shows that women do more unpaid labor than men, and that the perception of inequality influences perceptions of marital quality. Yet research on same-sex couples suggests the importance of considering how gender is relational. Past studies show that same-sex partners share unpaid labor more equally and perceive greater equity than do different-sex partners, and that lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are less gender conforming than heterosexuals. (
- - - - Girls and young women are exposed to bad health, academic, and economic consequences as a result of harmful cultural practices, which are generally informed by unequal gender norms. Girls and women are unable to negotiate and make decisions about their lives and bodies due to discriminatory gender standards, which make them unequal in intimate and social relationships. This has a negative impact on their ability to complete their schooling.
      - “In most countries, sex discrimination in employment, family law, and many other areas of life remained routine for many years to come, and in many countries, violations of women's basic human rights are still commonplace (see, for example, Bunch 1994, 32-34). Nevertheless, the vast gap between declarations of rights and actual practice turns out to be a common pattern.”