Social Factors Influencing Gender Inequalities - HUMAN RIGHTS
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- Created on: 01-10-19 09:26
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- 'Social factors are the most important influences responsible for gender inequalities. Discuss. (16)
- Social Factors
- Family traditions
- Early, forced child marriage
- Early pregnancy
- Harmful practices like FGM (female genital mutilation)
- forced sterilisation/ abortion
- Household chores fall to the girls, especially the eldest girls
- due to male ourmigration
- Early, forced child marriage
- Education
- Negative classroom environments
- Violence
- exploitation
- corporal punishment
- lack of female teacher (less inspiring for students)
- In Afghanistan, males attend school for approx 5 years whilst girls only attend school for 1 year.
- compulsory in ACs
- UK - not allowed to leave education until 18
- Germany - 18
- USA - 16-17, although in some states its mandatory until 18
- Negative classroom environments
- Family traditions
- Economic Factors
- Cost of education means the girls forfeit their education, especially at secondary level
- This then leads to a growth in the divide and inequality between males and females, meaning women are more disadvantaged
- Work in jobs which are very low skilled and very low paid in comparison to males - creating this large inequality
- This then leads to a growth in the divide and inequality between males and females, meaning women are more disadvantaged
- Helps determine social factors
- Gneder parity - male:female participation in the work force
- Malawi - 1:1.042, yet females work in smaller farms with more strenuous work
- UK - 1:0.81, but males and females work in same/similar job roles
- Cost of education means the girls forfeit their education, especially at secondary level
- Political factors
- government support and investment into removing, or even reducing, the inequality gap
- inadequate legislation to protect women and their rights
- In UK there is the equality act where no one can be discriminated against
- this prevents gender inequality
- In UK there is the equality act where no one can be discriminated against
- Social Factors
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