There are many undeveloped countries in the world, many of which are struggling to become developed. They have many things at their disadvantage such as powerful companies creating monopolies in their country, developed countries outsourcing labor into these poor countries and paying very little, overpopulation, under education, poverty, and a strongly patriarchal society. Some countries may have one of these problems, a few, or many of them but it is still a factor prohibiting them from developing. For example, one of these restricting forces is a strongly patriarchal society which may keep countries from developing is not educating the women and or letting them work. If you were to let the woman work or be educated you’d have another …show more content…
And from these problems sprout much more causes of underdevelopment such as overpopulation, under education, poverty, and cultural norms such a strong patriarchal view. But many of these problems mainly sprout from cultural norms such as strong patriarchal views because if there was social equality then there would most likely not be overpopulation, undereducated, and poverty. This is because if for example, women were to be educated they would be more educated about sex and contraceptives and know not to have so many children(unicef). It is known that in a developed country most women are not even having children because they are educated and work as well as seen in Singapore. But this is not the case in places like India and many countries in Africa like Ethiopia and Somalia. In these countries, women have so many children because in their countries men are the ones with the say in everything so most women bear children until they have a boy. But by the time these women get there they have had on average five or more children. This is done so that if the first son born dies they have a spare to be the head of the house after the father. But since these women have so many children they cannot do anything else except care for them such as by cooking and cleaning things for them. So because of this, they are not able to seek jobs besides the fact that men do not let them and there is social discrimination against that too. If these women were educated they would know about
– Few economic opportunities. A culture prohibiting women to appear in public combined with a widespread lack of education mean women enjoy few economic opportunities.
Human capital is what makes us work, and working is what establishes are living conditions. That’s why productive countries have had increases in income, which made for increases in education and labor training. This is especially beneficial to third world countries, because as women receive more education, the more they learn about their roles in society, independence, family, and contraceptives - which, in turn, decreases the infant mortality rates. However, in order to be productive for a society’s economy, you need to possess certain skills. Skilled individuals have to work together to achieve success. Those who are talented come to the realization that their skills are more valuable in countries that already have a great amount of skilled workers. Being skilled helps trade, and not practicing trade, or being a closed off economy, has a damaging effect. An open economy will grow
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
The status of women and children is an important factor in determining the standards of living in a country. Women have enormous potential as both thinkers and hands-on workers. They can contribute in different ways to help better their countries. But yet, many countries take on patriarchy stance and suppress the women, effectively cutting the country’s workforce in half. Children are another big difference
All of those disadvantages for women in modern society are affecting young girls, and it is hard to raise daughters in today’s culture. We as a country should not just let this inequality continue. Men and women should be treated equally and it is important for parents to raise their kids to make the future less
I think even though reproductive nature caused the duty of taking care the youths on the back of mother, the educations and the rights can definitely help women to raise a stronger
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.
Maternal mortality, prostitution, and economic empowerment become global struggles due to lack of education and financial ability of both the country itself and individuals living in these countries. Families are following a pattern by neglecting to dedicate time, attention, and money to their children’s education. These people are living in the moment and do not
Many American citizens disregard or are unaware of what is happening in other less developed countries. Some lack electricity, efficient amount of food for their families, and even running, clean water. Poverty is one of the major cause of death, mostly for young children due to sickness and their families can’t afford the help they need. There are ways America is helping the undeveloped countries to improve as many people's lives as possible. Although there is more suffering than there are helping, some are working everyday to help solve the problems many are suffering so badly from.
When thinking of a developing nation, several advancements for the benefit of society come to mind, however the negative effects, which can often
Globalization becomes an important aspect in women lives who are victims of the system. The women decide to leave their countries and migrate to a different country in order to have better life and opportunities. As the globalization has an important part of women opportunities. And in many third world countries many women migrate to different countries like U.S where they can have a better life. But they need to leave their families and in some cases their children. The women are able to have a work in U.S. The women can work in different jobs like in daycare or homecare, and also the women are able to take training in order to get a certificate. The women work in various manual labor because the U.S. have a plenty opportunities for them.
High maternal mortality in African countries has often been linked to the practice of male dominance (patriarchy). According to Kinanee and Ezekiel-Hart (2009p.1) patriarchy is defined “as the dominance of men over women, patriarchy describes a family structure or society where the man is, as of right, the head of the family and regarded by the women as the lord and master whose decision (about any and all issues, including those of maternal health) is final”. It encourages men’s access to resources control. Male dominance entails that women are to depend almost entirely on men in making every decision that affects the family including, but not limited to the number of babies to have, when to get pregnant, usage or non- usage of contraceptives, whether or not to go for antenatal care, to mention a few), even when they are directly affected by such decisions (Kinanee and Ezekiel-Hart 2009). Gender is the social construction of roles allocated to men and women (O’ Brien and White 2003). These roles vary geographically and change over time (O’ Brien and White 2003). The conventional system in many African countries lay out specific roles that both men and women are to perform in their families and communities. For instance, from childhood boys are instilled with the mentality that they were to be strong and hardworking, so as to be able to effectively take care of their wives. Girls, on the other hand, were to focus solely on the domestic activities. They were to
The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier discusses why the poorest countries are failing and then offers some insights and solutions to the problem. He says the four major problems in developing nations are: conflict, natural resources, bad neighbors, and bad governments. The conflicts are usually civil wars which have huge costs and the situation just becomes worse the longer the conflicts drag on. Collier states that countries rich in natural resources are often worse off than countries that are not, he attributes this problem to several different factors. One of the factors is that the resources open the possibility for conflict over the resources. Another factor is that if a country strictly focuses it’s on a specific natural resource then the other resources and industries might get forgotten and lose value. Being landlocked with bad neighbors can also be a large problem because it makes it almost impossible to be a part of world trade, so these landlocked countries have to depend on their neighbors for most of the trade and materials. A bad government can also be very destructive to a country’s economy, if they create unreasonable and restrictive policies. The smaller countries are also at a disadvantage because it is hard for them to get any investors, because the investors would much rather invest in well-known countries like India or China. After Collier stated all the problems he also offered up some possible solutions. He believed that aid agencies should concentrate
Developing nations are filled with hope and aspirations of one day becoming a wealthy, dominating, and influential country. These nations can sometimes be unsafe, difficult to live in, and hard for workers to earn good compensation for their labor. On the other hand, living in a developed nation has many upsides. Developed nations are wealthy, which in turn have good infrastructure, labor and worker laws, and have less crime.
The lack of opportunities is a struggle in Kenya for women and children as they are a very poor country and can’t afford food and education for their community. The people that are affected by this are women and children who are treated differently. Some of the many inequalities for women are that they are paid less than men, this is due to gender inequality and discrimination against women. It has scientifically shown that women are earning what men were paid in 2006 and will take another 118 years for women to be equally paid the same as men. Another inequality for women in Kenya is that they are less educated than men, this is evident as they have less access to education,