The Role Of Economic Development As Measured Through Levels

Although the issue of women’s rights has attracted international recognition and support, women still face many inequalities and barriers. Gender-based violence and economic discrimination are problems in many parts of the world.

However, the contributions of women to the economy have gone unrecognized and unvalued. Also, there is unequal opportunities between men and women in the workforce, which means that women do not receive an opportunity at demonstrating their ability to lift themselves from poverty and similar issues, and their options to improve their lives are limited or nonexistent. However, I feel that what men do not realize when oppressing women is that women make up half of the world's population. This ultimately means that women also make up half the workforce. A nation that limits women and discriminates against them cannot reach it's full potential or productiveness. On the other hand, if a country's government, businesses, and overall, the communities invest in women, developing countries are less likely to be striken by poverty. Women are educated to wisely manage the money that they earn, which results in less poverty because they will know how to save and spend her money properly. To add on, economic empowered women raise healthier and better educated children, which results in children that will continue to manage money wisely, with their mother's guidance, and ultimately this would lead to a decrease in poverty. Economic empowerment means not only reducing

Women empowerment means to identify all kinds of oppression based on gender roles and to face it. This process has two dimensions: individual and collective. At the individual level, access to information about gender role and its social source lead women to seek for their autonomy and freedom. When they realize that the female social being is a social construction, nor a changeless reality, they can better indentify

Ann Levine and Naomi Neft's article "Women in Today's World" asserts that although the status of females in developed countries has vastly improved with society's movement toward a more gender-equal condition, the majority of women remain in a dire state of oppression. Women are more impoverished, illiterate, unemployed, and more destitute than men. In spite of some women's improvements under developed countries' more progressive, gender-equal regimes, education, literacy rates, employment, civil rights, health, and public representation remain substandard for most of the world's females.

Women are often still seen as the weaker sex and are automatically cast into the role of homemaker. We have seen a huge change in women in the work place over the last half century and more women are working now than ever. Even with this shift in employment there is still the traditional association set in place that a woman stay home and tend to the house and kids. Women fall behind in mobility for these reasons. Women are also more likely to become single parents, forfeit higher education, and work lower paying jobs adding to their economic lag (Reeves & Venator, Par.5). In an article on Gender Gaps in Relative Mobility they discuss the significant gender gap we are still facing. Graphs using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) were used to show where women’s mobility stands. The conclusion of this data is that things seem to be equal for men and women when comparing economic growth but in fact are not. The article by Richard V. Reeves and Joanna Venator states that even though it seems women have been gaining in mobility throughout the years, “mobility patterns by gender shows that there is clearly a long way to go before we approach equality” (Reeves & Venator, Par.7). Simply put, gender equality has not been fully reached, and until it has, women cannot achieve their top economic status or level of

Women and poverty is one of the critical areas of concern from the Beijing Platform for Action. Unfortunately there is over 1 billion of who are women that are living in poverty. Most of the women who are living in poverty and in very poor condition are from developing countries, but we also have this problem here in the United States. Poverty has been a factor of little to no education, single mother raising their families, little resources, and pay gap. In the article of Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Fourth World Conference on Women, one of the strategic objectives is, to analyze from a gender perspective, policies and programmers including those related to macroeconomic stability, structural adjustment, external debt problems,

When women are placed in these positions of power the past has shown that women empowerment allows for the growth for the upcoming generations. This investment that countries can make by allowing for the growth of the education of women would be exactly that, an investment. The growth that countries would experience would allow that country to excel into a caring society. As well, the impact that women have had on society is not limited to the political realm but can also be translated to the economic sense. When placed

Over the course of history, gender inequalities have been a prevalent issue amongst countries around the world. The notion, women are inferior to men has shaped their treatment in all aspects of life. Women were subjected to a patriarchal role in society, the men worked and women took care of domestics to some degree greater or lesser depending the country they resided in. In the late 19th and early 20th century women started rising up against male dominated societies in feminist movements. These movements were campaigns and reform plans to combat issues of equal pay, sexual violence, and denial of suffrage, reproductive rights, equal job opportunities and property rights. Thus observing women in Great Britain and Saudi Arabia today one can see how the role women play in society has dramatically changed from 1800s till now.

Adopting pragmatic policy actions to promote more economic participation by women is not only critical to prosperity at long-run but can significantly contribute to the economic growth of the state. The potential gains by the United States which is the largest among the economically advanced countries can be replicated at the state level. On the contrary, expert opinions are of the view that the declining proportion of the active labor force due to demographic transition and slowing technological progress could cause the growth trajectory of the GDP to decelerate. Harnessing the potentials of gender equality will significantly stabilize the GDP growth over the coming decade.

In the U.S. women make up almost half of the work force and 40% of women are the bread winner of the family; yet, they still make 79 cents to every mans dollar. This is a gender wage gap of 21% and occurs in virtually every single occupation that offers a sufficient amount of earnings for the year. According to the World Economic Forum there is no country in the world where a women earns equally as much as a man and it will take over 50 years for that to even progress. Women in the work force in Italy and Israel don’t even make half as much as men do; however, one of the poorest countries in the world, Burundi, is the closest in women’s earnings equality to men sitting at 84%. Algeria, Iran, and Syria have the least amount of women in the workforce with only 20% of females who work outside of the home

Globally, women are restricted economically and the Bolivian Republic of Venezuela and the UN believes strongly that this is an issue. According to the 2016 World Bank report on Women, Business, and the Law, 155 countries out of the 173 studied have at least one economic restriction on women. Women are also restricted from doing certain jobs in 10 countries. Furthermore, in places where there are more legal gender inequalities, women that are less likely to attend secondary school, be employed, or run businesses. This is an issue because when women are given the opportunity to contribute to their respective economies, studies show that it can lead to 34% GDP increase thereby reducing poverty. However, due to the fact that women are typically responsible for raising children, this often forces them to choose between their careers and their home life.

Conceability to access to power is very limited and stiffed, but they still try to choose paths or achieve their goals within masculine society (Laura, 2009). On the other hand, agriculturalists women in Sub-Saharan Africa suffer from unequally in the distribution of lands and resources although they should contribute in the household expenses while they get less than men do, and they work the same as men do. For the classical system their issues is more about society role, but in Sub-Saharan Africa, women could have economic challenges out of that inequality. “According to sex role theory, we acquire our gender identity through socialization, and afterward, we are socialized to behave in masculine or feminine ways. It is thus the task of

According to the World Bank, women make up 70% of the world’s poor and their wages world wide are on average 50% to 80% of men’s. One third of all households word wide are headed by women, they are responsible for half the world’s food production, and yet they own just one per cent of the world’s property. The majority of workers in sweatshops are women and the majority of unpaid labour is done by women in every region of the world. Further, women make up two-thirds of the one billion people who are illiterate and 60% of the 100 million who have no access to primary education.

This article addresses four main points. First, at the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, the significance of women’s contribution was emphasized by the World Bank. However, according to the authors, the perception of women as goods was strengthened by the World Bank because of its emphasis on economic outcomes and its consequent failure to pay attention to the meaning of women’s empowerment and gender equality. Second, the World Bank, UN agencies and other institutions were observed to value only young women and girls, thus completely ignoring men’s role . Third, despite the existence of programs encouraging women empowerment such as microfinance and conditional cash transfers, women are forced to work for their livelihood coupled with the burden of housework. The authors also cast doubt on the notion that investing in young women and girls leads to the promotion of women’s empowerment and gender equality, or actually improves the economy as they are often unconsciously regarded as cheaper labor . Therefore, they underscored that while smart economics might

Although they have been given more rights and equality, women still lack fairness in areas such as education, domestic abuse, crime, and lower class value. Cassandra Clifford states in her article “Are Girls still marginalized? Discrimination and Gender Inequality in Today’s Society”, “Woman and girls are abused by their husbands and fathers, young girls are exploited by sex tourism and trafficking, girls in many countries are forced into arranged marriages at early ages. Twice as many women are illiterate as men, due to the large gap in education, and girls are still less likely to get jobs and excel in the work place than boys.” She describes some of the issues that women face today around the world. These issues are what keep society from coming together to form a better world.