What is Gender Inequality?

Answer 1

It's when to a certain gender there is given more priority and importance than the other, usually it's agains the women, but these days things are changing! :)

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Answer 2

Truly, inequality all by itself just means things that no two things are alike.
Three does not equal seven, etc.
And it's beautiful that all genders have different gifts. (There is a remote society that labels 13 genders, and most of that is based on social construct).
The problem is that society has placed VALUE judgments on some aspects, and belittled, underpaid, chastised, and abused one gender on the basis of those judgments.

Answer 3

The dispute between the 2 genders and the distinctions that come out of this argument against women most of the times.

Answer 4

Same context as racial inequality (intensity may be different, but concept is similar).

Being treated/viewed differently b/c of one's gender. May manifest in workplace as difference in pay for same position. It has nothing to do with women chasing to be in equal footing as men in every way, or at least it shouldn't.

My favorite quote: "Equality with men is too low a goal."

Answer 5

Whether it's based on biology or social mores, worldwide, gender inequality is prevalent:

*More girls are illiterate than boys
*Less women attend college than men
*Women receive less pay than men
*Women own much less property (like their homes) than men
*Women still do the majority of household and childcare duties, whether they work outside the home or not
*Women can not vote in some countries

*In many countries, there are less women since they receive less healthcare services, and have a higher mortality rate
*Girls are still genitically mutilated
*Women and girls are raped at a greater rate compared to men and boys
*Women are battered at higher percentages than men

The US has issues it can improve on, but many people in many countries treat women horribly.

Answer 6

Short answer : A lie.

Longer answer : A lie carefully constructed by extremely greedy women, who not happy with true equality want more and more special rights, far above those of men.

Answer 7

Aggregate indicators of life expectancy, literacy, and other advantages used in the UNDP's Human Development Report have tended to ignore distributional concerns, using a simple arithmetic average of achievement (or shortfall), in each dimension, over the entire population.2 Such an average overlooks systematic and potentially large differences between distinct groups of people, in particular women and men, but there are disparities also between different classes, racial groups, regional populations, and so on. We focus here on gender differentials in achievement, but the issues discussed would, to a considerable extent, apply to other inequalities as well.

We may begin by examining the inequality between women and men in a dimension where the "potentials" of the two groups are not really different. Literacy is an obvious example. In contrast, in the case of life expectancy, we must take note of the evident biological advantage in survival of females over males (on this, see Waldron 1983, Sen 1992b, Anand 1993, and the references cited there). Given symmetric treatment in nutrition, health care, and other conditions of living (including the duration and intensity of work), women have systematically lower age-specific mortality rates than men, resulting in a life expectancy for women that is significantly higher than that for men — possibly by some five years or more. There is no corresponding difference in the potential for adult literacy (that is, in the percentage of the population aged 15 and above that is literate).

For a given level of mean achievement, relative inequality between groups has some obvious simplicity when there are just two groups. For example, if the first element of the pair (Xf, Xm) represents the female literacy rate for a country, and the second element the male literacy rate, the Human Development Report 1994 (Table 5, pp. 138-39) shows three countries with the same mean or overall literacy rate of 80 percent distributed between females and males as follows: China (68, 92), Malaysia (72, 89), and Mauritius (75, 85). Comparing these three countries, it seems clear that gender inequality in literacy is highest in China and lowest in Mauritius. Similarly, at a higher level of mean achievement of 84 percent literacy rate, gender inequality in Indonesia (77, 91) is greater than in the Dominican Republic (83, 86).

The assessment of relative inequality in achievement can be reasonably perspicuous when there are only two groups — as in the case of gender. The larger the gender gap, holding the overall mean constant, the larger is inequality as measured by any index belonging to the Lorenz class (see Anand 1983, Appendix D); this class includes most commonly used inequality measures such as the Gini coefficient, the two Theil indices, the Atkinson index, and the squared coefficient of variation. A bigger gender gap, with the same overall mean (and the same population proportions of the two groups) is equivalent to a simple mean-preserving regressive transfer. (In terms of Lorenz curves, this would correspond to an unambiguously lower curve.) In the special 2-group case, disparity ratios or gaps will unambiguously reflect the inequality in achievement between the two groups. Given equality preference and the same overall mean, more relative inequality will indicate a worse social state of affairs, and this evaluative feature must be reflected in the gender-equity-sensitive indicators.

This simple recognition still leaves open the question of what would be appropriate standards of comparison when the overall or mean levels of achievement are different. In particular, how might we think about "trading off" more relative equality against a higher absolute achievement? Honduras, for example, has a total literacy rate of 75 percent divided between females and males as (73, 78).3 Should this social outcome be judged worse or better than the case of China, which has a total literacy rate of 80 percent distributed as (68, 92) between females and males? Honduras has less gender inequality in literacy levels than China, but it also has a lower overall rate of literacy. A comparison between the two countries now calls for some way of assessing the comparative claims of more relative equality against higher absolute achievement. An explicit evaluative exercise on this "trade off" will be required in such situations.

We begin with the approach explored by A.B. Atkinson (1970) for the purposes of measuring relative income inequality, and extend this analysis to fit our task.4 Let X be the indicator of achievement, and let Xf and Xm refer to the corresponding female and male achievements. If nf and nm are the numbers of females and males in the population, respectively, then the overall or mean achievement is given by



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Answer 8

the inequality consists in ''wo'' from woman.

Answer 9

its a concept made up by people who think they are not getting a fair chance....at my college there is a "Women's Center" a very large former-fraternity house--good for them

However, is there a "Men's Center"?? Of course not!! That's gender inequality

its God's Plan...Let us Pray...

Answer 10

women percieve that they are not treated equally by men !!