An Analysis Of Gender Inequality In The United States

While most people would acknowledge that prevalent gender inequality exists in the United States and other developed countries - whether through pay gaps, misrepresentation in governance, or blatant sexism - and that there is a struggle to address these inequalities, we take for granted the quality of life that American women have over many others throughout the world. The treatment of women throughout the world varies from country to country; in many cases, women in underdeveloped or developing countries are treated incredibly poorly, subjected to various types of violence on a far-too-regular basis, and have experienced more substantial inequalities than many Americans can even comprehend. Through our research and analysis, we will address …show more content…
Also, child marriage and early pregnancies can be a barrier to girl’s education, which are the reasons for 15-30% of dropouts for girls in secondary school. Therefore, low educational achievement is both the cause and the consequence of child marriage. According to the UN, more than 700 million women were married as children below 18 years of age and some 250 million were married before 15 years of age. Child marriages often lead to physical and sexual domestic violence, and since they often lead to a lack of education for young women, our hypothesized link still …show more content…
We are looking to see if there is a correlation between the level of violence against women in a country and that same country’s level of education. We’re hoping to investigate the effects of a variety of factors on the level of violence against women, but our operational variables will be prevalence of violence (physical and sexual) against women in a country and the literacy rates for the entire population, as well as the literacy rates for just women in the country. Thus, we may be able to compare the effect sizes of the women-only literacy level versus the overall literacy level in the