ABSTRACT

In this paper I argued that the problem associated with gender based discrimination has not been holistically addressed. There is an erroneous notion that once gender-based discrimination is mentioned, it presupposes discrimination against the female gender thereby overlooking every possibility of male gender discrimination. I argued that this erroneous presupposition has created a negative divide between both genders. I contend that gender discrimination can in actual fact affect any of the gender. Both male and female genders suffer discrimination; hence the discriminating tendency is not attached to any gender. Using hermeneutical method, I posit that not everything that is tagged gender discrimination is gender discrimination; some are gender limitations which should open humanity to complementarity instead of competition. In view of the aforesaid, I finally advocated for gender equity in place of gender equality