The United Nations Millennium Declaration states that the main focus should be on gender equality and empowerment of women in order to fight poverty, hunger and with that, help development that is sustainable. (O’Brien & Williams 2013,212) Taking gender into the account while observing global economy shows that men and women are impacted in various ways considering trade, production and financial flows. (O’Brien & Williams 2013,212) The term “feminization of poverty” originates from about 1970s
Research and Literature Review Assignment 8th Semester Department of Family Medicine Scoring the Third Goal A commentary on Nepal’s efforts to promote gender equality and empower women Posan Samser Limbu R. N. 593 MBBS, 2005 BPKIHS The once mystical women have fallen from being worshipped as goddesses and possessors of the mystery of child birth1 to mere child bearers. If females are the oppressed among humans, perhaps they can take heart from the fact that failing to escape after mating, the
Gender inequality has been and is still a problem being faced worldwide. It has inhibited the social, economical, and political growth of women in all different nations, especially third-world countries.There are various implications that change the level of inequality such as education, culture, religion, democratization of countries, years of independence, and most importantly, economic development. (Dollar & Gatti, 1999). This paper is examining the role economic development as measured through
paper is to review the article, “Fixing women or fixing the world? “Smart economics’, efficiency approaches, and gender equality in development” by Sylvia Chant & Caroline Sweetman. This article primarily focuses on ‘Smart economics’, referring to an investment in women for encouraging economic growth and providing impetus to women’s empowerment and gender equality. This article addresses four main points. First, at the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, the significance
Empowerment of Women and the development of Muslim family Law in Bangladesh 1. Introduction All over the world women from various cultural and social backgrounds have a long tradition of rights and responsibilities to live in society with respect and dignity. Though there are difference between men and women in specific aptitude, powers and functions they have to be regarded as complementary to each other. We can’t deny that one sex is making up what other lacks acting in specific sphere in
Development Goals (SDGs) are global initiatives in which countries all over the world are entitled towards achieving. Out of the 17 SDGs, Sustainable goal number 5 takes about the achievement of gender equality (Kumar & Vivekadhish, 2016). Gender issues have always been experienced ever since the beginning of man. Women do not have the same rights and opportunities as men in society and this why this goal number 5 was developed. Egypt, a North African country, has yet to fully attain this SDG. The following
and role for women. Since 1958, the debate about women and there family status has taken a critical role in how the family life in Muslim societies play out. Gender equality is a feature of the national constitution, yet the law tends to continually restrict women’s rights and their freedoms. It dictates the submissive role women hold relative to male counterparts and also how the law limits what women may inherit or own. Even when the law continues to
Women Empowerment as a Notion of Social Justice and Economic Development: Bangladesh Perspective Abdul Alim and Mahmudul Hasan ABSTRACT The issue of women’s empowerment has been growing for decades as a burning issue in South Asian countries, and this paper focuses especially on Bangladesh. Many laws and regulations have been made to combat the ideas and practices of depriving women of their rights. As a signatory of different international instruments approbating women’s empowerment Bangladesh
Gender equality fails to achieve and global gender gap is widening these days. Generally speaking, the index 2017 shows an increase in gender disparity and the world remains gender gap of 32% in four dimension economic participation, education, health and politics (The Global Gender Report 2017). In my opinion, historical and religion factors, weak implementation of law and lack of political empowerment contribute to the failure of achieving gender equality. Gender equality means that men and women
simplistic and do not do justice to the Millennium Declaration. In this paper, I focus on goal 3 of the MGDs that is to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, to argue that the MDGs failed to deliver on their equality promises. First, I will give a brief overview of MDGs and inequality, this will be followed by why MDGs failed to deliver on their equality promises. Where I argue that the MDGs failed because they did not address human and reproductive rights of