Reflective Tag

The gender gap is something that typically effects women over the world in different ways. The gender gap can effect whether a women can get a job or an education and can even be dangerous. The reason for this gap is usually a culture issue brought about because of a society dominated by men.

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The gender gap is an issue throughout the world which typically effects women. The gender inequalities include whether they can get a job and how much they get payed, arranged marriages, violence, and discrimination. The United States is pretty good when it comes to discrepancy in education but places like India and most of Africa have more then a 16 percent difference between male and female secondary education levels. These numbers mostly have to do with the cultural role of females in those countries, “the female is meant to stay at home and do house chores.”

India and Africa also have a high maternal mortality rate, physical abuse, and trafficking of females. This probably stems from a lack of care for the females in the country and because of their roles as females which causes them to be seen as inferior to men. This idea of superiority causes negative feelings toward the opposite sex which is seen in how people dealt with people of a different race back in the day. The only real way to fix this gap is to make it so women aren’t considered inferior to men which is easier said then done considering the usual noticeable differences in physical strength and speed, pregnancy, and genitalia.

The one common thing between most of the countries is the preference of boys over girls. On a global gender gap report on May 2015 the United States was ranked #20, #1 being the best place to be a women. The top 10 in order from #1 to #10 were Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Australia, and Belgium. A majority of those countries are northern European countries and all the bottom 10 are southern countries. This could be because a lot of the culture is based on region, looking at the European countries women are treated more as people instead of objects. Realizing women as equals instead of as inferior creatures would fix this gap in gender but that would require fixing an entire nations way of thinking.