Global Gender Gap Report

The Global Gender Gap Report 2016, produced by The World Economic Forum, examines 'equality' between men and women in four different areas (education, health, finances, politics) in 144 countries. The report also highlights countries, that within their region and economic group, provide opportunities and distribute resources more equitably among the sexes…

Gender inequality does not refer to a single issue, rather, it is multifaceted and prevalent in hundreds of countries. Everyday, a large portion of the female population faces seven types of inequality; mortality, natality; facility, professional; ownership, household and special opportunity inequality (Sen, 2001). This in turn has grave consequential effects upon the social, economic, cultural and political areas of life - achieving equality between men and women will allow for long-term…

environmental gender issues in India in the 1990’s. She wrote about how women and the environment are linked. She looked at how class, race, ethnicity, as well as other factors affected the link between Indian Women and the environment. She believes that all environmental decisions should be based on how the different genders relate to nature (Connell and Pearse 122). 2. Gender Gap Index: This is the index number and rank that indicate how well or poor a country is doing as it relates to gender…

Sweden’s Gender-Neutral Pronoun “Hen” Females are steadily approaching males in equality, with clear-cut illustrations in Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Finland. These countries have the least gender gap in the world, which is a result of continuous modernization to the countries’ infrastructure (Global Gender Gap Report 2013). Sweden’s new gender neutral pronoun “hen,” is added to the National Encyclopedia to allow the country to continue progressively moving towards a gender-neutral…

The name of this article that I will be talking about is called "Women of Worth" (The Gender Gap) by Merna Forster. Merna Forster is a very successful woman that did a campaign in having women on Canadian money and is also the author of “100 Canadian Heroes”. The thesis/argument that Forester is stating in her article is that they want to stop women inequality and to put an end to our Canadian gender gap. This Report will talk about the summary of the article and its argument, and also my…

Movement, which aided equal rights between genders, there have still been significant instances of increasing inequality. Particularly, income inequality. Income inequality is a rising issue between all social classes and races. Due to the evolving job market, outsourcing of products to other developing…

Westpac is one of the top sustainable companies in Australia that produce a standalone social report. The company is aiming to remain sustainability by anticipating and actively making improvement over social issues as a way creating value to the company’s business. This report examines the sustainability practices of Westpac recently with the compliance sustainability report with the Global reporting Initiatives. The results show that Westpac is doing well with their performance, however, it…

Gender Gap in Cybersecurity Cyberwarfare is now an integrated part of China’s military strategy according to the US Department of Defense. And in January 2010, Google announced that a major cyber attack from China had penetrated its corporate infrastructure and stolen information from its computers. This raises the awareness that cybersecurity have become an important role in national security. Cyber attack can be used in three major categories — economic, military and social adversaries. For…

of globalisation on gender disparity in the Indian education system. I consider the gendered role of two women as depicted in the film, “The World Before Her”, examine statistics on gender disparity in the Indian education system, as well argue the health and economic benefits of girls receiving an education. I present an argument that despite some advancement as a result of a global discussion, gender is still a limiting disadvantage in the Indian Social System. Gender roles played in film…

up the definition of the gender wage gap, the first definition you see is from the European Commissions which says, “the relative difference in the average gross hourly earnings of women and men within the economy as a whole.” We have always had a wage gap between genders in the United States. The rights of women have changed immensely since the early 1900’s when women began entering the workforce, but there are still wage gaps by 64% between men and women. The wage gap effects peoples’ lives…