According to the oxford dictionary, Gender inequality is defined as a “Social process by which people are treated differently and disadvantageously, under similar circumstances, on the basis of gender”. In simpler terms, gender inequality is the unequal treatment of people based on the sexes. Inequality based upon gender dates back to nearly the beginning of time. Men were always seen as the bread winner of the household. For a very long time only males were allowed to obtain an education. On the other hand, females were expected to marry, bare children and stay at home. This agitated for the creation of the feminist movement which emerged in the early 1900’s in Canada and the US. Although there has been some improvement in gender inequality
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This includes the notion that women should not have positions of political power, and also less support for females in conventional male occupations such as CEO’s and architects. In this article, reserchers foud that men were much more likely to have sexist attitudes than women. In addition, the study also revealed that less developed countries have more evidence of gender inequality. This means that less developed countries such as The Bahamas would have much more gender inequality than United States of America. In an essence, this study successfully determined the correlation between sexist ideologies and its …show more content…
“gender discrimination may discourage workers from entering a job to which they are best suited, thereby lowering the value of output”. This means that economic growth would plummet because companies would not have the staff possible to make maximum profit. Gender bias in education also exists in society. The notion is that women are less educated than men, meaning that they are less skilled and would not be advantageous in the work force. With that being said, it is easy conclude that this will limit the GDP growth. These researchers also concludes that limited to access to education prevents the expansion of education for future generations. THE RESEARCHERS also determine a possible termination to the gender wage gap; incresead trade. According to to Black and Brainerd (2004), employers’ power to discriminate is largely reduced by the increase in competition from trade. Contrastingly, THE RESEARCHERS provide results of a separate study, stating that gender imbalances have caused an increase of export success in a few countries. Another study examined by THE RESEARCHERS shows that discrimination against females in reference to gender wage have increased competition in trade between South Korea and
This includes the notion that women should not have positions of political power, and also less support for females in conventional male occupations such as CEO’s and architects. In this article, reserchers foud that men were much more likely to have sexist attitudes than women. In addition, the study also revealed that less developed countries have more evidence of gender inequality. This means that less developed countries such as The Bahamas would have much more gender inequality than United States of America. In an essence, this study successfully determined the correlation between sexist ideologies and its …show more content…
“gender discrimination may discourage workers from entering a job to which they are best suited, thereby lowering the value of output”. This means that economic growth would plummet because companies would not have the staff possible to make maximum profit. Gender bias in education also exists in society. The notion is that women are less educated than men, meaning that they are less skilled and would not be advantageous in the work force. With that being said, it is easy conclude that this will limit the GDP growth. These researchers also concludes that limited to access to education prevents the expansion of education for future generations. THE RESEARCHERS also determine a possible termination to the gender wage gap; incresead trade. According to to Black and Brainerd (2004), employers’ power to discriminate is largely reduced by the increase in competition from trade. Contrastingly, THE RESEARCHERS provide results of a separate study, stating that gender imbalances have caused an increase of export success in a few countries. Another study examined by THE RESEARCHERS shows that discrimination against females in reference to gender wage have increased competition in trade between South Korea and