The Importance Of Gender Inequality

Gender Inequality has always been in issue since the beginning of time. For some it’s not an issue it’s just a way of life, women are taught to be submissive and obedient to their male counterparts. Women’s sole purpose is to bear children, raise and nurture them, run the household as far as cooking and cleaning and to take care for their husband and his needs. This has been an idea that goes across many cultures in different parts of the world for centuries, passed down from generation and generations. Those days are long gone or are they really? Over the years women have made great strides in gaining equal rights as man, but for some cultures women are unequal to their male counterparts despite how far the fight for women equality have

What if the inequality women face in the labor force was resolved? Well the overall global economy would benefit. from it. As I read in Alter, C. (2014, September 24). Gender Inequality Costs the Global Economy $28 Trillion. Women working in the paid labor force have risen tremendously over the last 50 years alone. If we close the gaps in the labor work force and women were paid for the work that they do for free it would help the world in one way or another financially. Alter makes some good points of equality between women and men and how it would make society more stable in terms of the economy and social issues. Social and cultural beliefs have kept some countries from allowing women to participate in the paid workforce. Three factors that affects women’s growth in the paid labor force is less participation, less hours worked and less women representation in low productivity sectors. More job opportunities would become available if more women were in the workforce because that would leave children of the women(mothers) needing childcare providing employment for child care takers. Women inequality with in a society doesn 't just affect the particular society but the world as a

The practice of female infanticide shows how desirable having a male child is that parents would take the lives of a female baby. The dowry system in India is the main cause of female infanticide in India. Gender inequalities in the rural part of northern India exhibit female infanticide occurs here the most despite laws to abolish these acts. Men hold a higher value in this society because a system they adapted many years ago. Men are seen as an asset or of value because at one point his future wife and her family will “pay” for him. Daughters are opposite and viewed as a burden to the family because she will have to marry one day and that will cost her parents. So women are not viewed equally here even as infants, they don’t even stand a chance. Officials have tried to make laws to assist in reducing female infanticide but people have continued to follow traditions of the dowry systems putting the population at risk as well