Gender and Inequality

Gender and Inequality

1. Overview

   • culture/ status
     • less personal atonomy
     • the relative or standing of men and women in a society
     • fewer resources at their disposal
     • changes
       • societies and cultures are dynamic
       • Clothing Industry Bangladesh
   • education
     • reduces fertility rates
     • lower infant mortality rates
     • reduced maternal mortality
     • increases female participation in the workforce
     • 2/3 illiterate women
       • varies from region to region
     • 2014 25 countries completely closed educational attainment gap
   • employment
     • restricted jobs costs asia and pacific 42-46bn
     • double shift syndrome
       • domestic burden leads to inability to compete with male collegues
     • glass ceiling syndrome
       • a failure of increasing legal equality resulting in actual equality

2. empowerment

   • political
     • June 2016 Women occupy 23% of parliamentry seats
     • Nordic 43.4%
     • Arab States 9.6%
   • Birth Rate
   • family size
   • Global health
     • 16,000 women die from preventable complications during pregnancy and childbirth
     • health and survival gap narrow 96% globally with 35 countries

3. migration

   • women account for almost half of the migrant population globally
   • women disadvantaged from caring unpaid domestic work
   • lower income jobs for both genders

4. Inheritance

   • women who own property have a stronger fall back
   • hindu succession act made women able to own land