Gregory Parham

BI-219X

Dr. Hinks

29 May 2018

Artifact 3 / The Global Gender Gap

            The global gender gap is meant by showing the differences between men and women, especially in the aspects of social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attitudes. The global gender gap was introduced by the World Economic Forum and it looks in depth about four critical areas of inequality between me and women such as economic opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment, and health and survival. The Gender Gap shows how countries are doing based on resources and opportunities among the male and female populations. The Global Gender Gap examines 144 major and emerging economies and provides the magnitude of gender-based disparities around the world.

Due to the gender gap by country in 2017, the top three countries with the least amount of gender gap was Iceland, Norway, and Finland. The results show the size of the countries’ overall gender gaps left to be closed so basically, the three countries are the closest to close that gap. The last bottom three of the gender gap report were the countries of Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Iceland got the first-place spot for the ninth year in a row due to it being the top performer on political empowerment. Norway took second place with its multi-year steady improvement on its gender gap in the number of women among senior officials and legislators.  Finland captured third place because it dropped on political empowerment, but it closed the gender gap on educational attainment. Even though Yemen is the last country on the gender gap report, it has closed less than 52% of its gender gap. Syria and Yemen both had low performing ranks on the economic participation and opportunity. Pakistan recorded some progress on closing the basic literacy gender gap and on women’s labor force participation. The United States placed 49 in the global gender gap and saw a decline on the political empowerment but has successfully closed the gender gap in educational attainment. The top ten is different from the United States due to the fact of they are excelling in all of the four critical aspects of the global gender gap. The United States needs to improve on political empowerment, health and survival, and economic participation and opportunity.

Next, women who get pregnant, give birth and care for children and once that happens their reproductive responsibilities can somewhat restrict their mobility and role in the society. In Pakistan, if the baby is a male, she can get privileged treatment such as better food and most rest, but if it’s a girl then the treatment is the opposite, which she could be insulted or ignored. The women reproductive responsibilities all consist of doing all the household work and fulfilling the sexual needs of the husband even though pregnancy. The women can’t show any emotion and have to compromise her own opinions and sacrifice her dreams. The inequality is crazy in general for the women in Pakistan pregnant or not. Men were the main decision-makers in the family and were very aggressive towards the wife which caused the wife to feel frustrated, powerless, depressed, and stressed.