Gender Inequality Essay
Gender inequality is the most pressing human rights issue, including disparities in education, employment, healthcare, power, violence, and poverty that impact countless of women and girls from every part of the world throughout their lifetime. I believe all generation of human rights is for global women. However, the most significant is the second generation of human or also known as “social”, “economic”, or "culture" rights. In many economically emerging countries where traditionally defined gender roles dominate, poor families make essentially economic gender-based decisions, and women are often at a disadvantage.
Economic, social and cultural rights, by contrast, require concrete material goods and various social benefits, such as a subsistence …show more content…
The social power for women is often threatened in many ways, Social institutions such as the family, religious groups or caste systems; economic and educational systems, all are filled with norms and values that discriminate against women. Kristof and WuDunn(2009) describe issues of abuse toward women, in particular, beliefs and cultural, as they state, "Mostly those kinds of beatings happen because the husbands are illiterate and uneducated, "she added. "But it also happens that the wife is not taking care of her husband or is not obedient. Then it is appropriate to beat the wife" (69). Certain cultural traditions place an enormous value on raising a girl since she will ultimately marry and move to her husband’s family, therefore not providing the long-term benefit of her birth family. Women in less developed countries are the most disadvantaged culturally, and religion wise to do or able to make changes in their lives and communities. According to Kristof and WuDunn(2009), "While empowering women is critical to overcoming poverty, it represents a field of aid work that is particularly challenging in that it involves tinkering with the culture, religion, and family relations of a society that we often don’t fully understand" (177). Gender equality and empowerment of women are needed to support the world's overall
Economic, social and cultural rights, by contrast, require concrete material goods and various social benefits, such as a subsistence …show more content…
The social power for women is often threatened in many ways, Social institutions such as the family, religious groups or caste systems; economic and educational systems, all are filled with norms and values that discriminate against women. Kristof and WuDunn(2009) describe issues of abuse toward women, in particular, beliefs and cultural, as they state, "Mostly those kinds of beatings happen because the husbands are illiterate and uneducated, "she added. "But it also happens that the wife is not taking care of her husband or is not obedient. Then it is appropriate to beat the wife" (69). Certain cultural traditions place an enormous value on raising a girl since she will ultimately marry and move to her husband’s family, therefore not providing the long-term benefit of her birth family. Women in less developed countries are the most disadvantaged culturally, and religion wise to do or able to make changes in their lives and communities. According to Kristof and WuDunn(2009), "While empowering women is critical to overcoming poverty, it represents a field of aid work that is particularly challenging in that it involves tinkering with the culture, religion, and family relations of a society that we often don’t fully understand" (177). Gender equality and empowerment of women are needed to support the world's overall