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Inequality with Women
Gender inequality is the differences in the status, power and prestige women and men have in groups, and societies .Gender equality is attained when women and men benefit from the same rights and opportunities across all divisions of society, including economic contribution and decision-making, and when the dissimilar behaviours, ambitions and needs of women and men are equally valued and idealized. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behavior, activities and quality that a particular society believes appropriate for men and women. The distinct roles and behavior may increase gender inequalities, i.e. differences between men and women that systematically favor one group. In turn, such inequalities can lead to inequities between men and women in both health status and access to health care.

What the issue is ?
All over the globe, violence and discrimination against females violates their human rights and severely compromises young people's sexual and reproductive health. Harmful practices, including female circumcision, femicide, gender-based violence, and early marriage, damages the victim's physical being and self-worth by reinforcing gender-based prejudice and discrimination. Gender inequalities and biases pervade cultures worldwide, preventing women and girls from fully realizing their rights to reproductive health and equality and control over their own sexuality.

Who it impacts?
Gender inequality mostly impacts the female gender, and that is due to the fact that women are seen lower in status then men. Society portrays men as the ones with hierarchical power, the ones with all the authority to oppress and rule over women. This inequality also impacts food productivity and distribution of natural resources in a country. As Gender inequality is both a cause and an effect of population growth. For instance, high fertility rates frequently lead to larger families, condensed opportunities for women to join the labor force, and shorter birth intervals, which can have overwhelming effects on both maternal and child health. Gender inequality stimulates population growth. Where women are denied full legal, social and economic rights, such as education, secure livelihoods, property ownership and credit, they are forced to rely on childbearing for survival, status and security. Higher population growth has a huge impact on natural resources, food productivity and the need for investments in social services. As it increases the pressure on local governments to provide these vital needs for the growing population, and this results in high tax amounts for individuals to pay.

Education:
Education is vital for women to achieve economic security and equality because it is the mother who lays down the foundation for her children. If the mother is well educated she can raise her daughters to be strong, free women, and sons who see their female counterparts as their equal. Investing in our female human capital can drastically improve the society as a whole because empowered females equal to a stable and tolerant society. Yet women usually receive less education than men due to cultural, religious, and economical situation. The foremost factor limiting female education is poverty, both material and intellectual. Economics plays a key role when it comes to dealing with direct costs such as tuition fees, cost of textbooks, uniforms, transportation and other expenses. In families with many children, these costs exceed the income of the family; girls are the first to be denied schooling. In Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, rural Pakistan, Nigeria, and Sudan, extremist Islamic culture has been a big factor in keeping women away from schools. In these aforementioned countries, orthodox clerics and their zealot followers strictly believe that women's place is at home in the kitchen and the bed. Therefore, they use violent measures to ensure that women stay within the restraints places upon them by extremist Islam. All this despite the fact that educating girls is one of the best investments a society can make. An educated woman has the skills, the self-confidence and the information she needs to become a better parent, worker and citizen

Health:
Women are disadvantaged than men in terms of access to health care and quality of nutrition and health care received With the availabilities modern techniques to determine the gender of the fetus, female infanticide and sex-selective abortion of female fetuses have become common in many countries.

Women’s inequality in decision making:
From the very beginning of the family to the international boundary women’s decision-making power has not been recognized. Women often have less opportunity than men to legal recognition and protection, as well as lower access to public knowledge and information, and less decision-making power both within and outside the home. Women in many parts of the world often times have little control over fertility, sexuality and marital choices. This systematic discrimination reduces women’s public participation, often increases their exposure to poverty, violence and HIV, and results in women representing a incommensurate percentage of the poor population of the world

Natality inequality:
Given a preference for boys over girls that many male-dominated societies have, gender inequality can manifest itself in the form of the parents wanting the newborn to be a boy rather than a girl. There was a time when this could be no more than a wish, but with the availability of modern techniques to determine the gender of the fetus, sex-selective abortion has become common in many countries

Trafficking issue:
Women and children from developing countries, and from compromising parts of society in developed countries, are attracted by promises of decent employment into leaving their homes and traveling far away. Victims are often provided with false travel documents and an organized network is used to transport them to the destination country, where they find themselves forced into sexual slavery and held in inhumane conditions and constant fear.

Why does it occur and still continues to exist?
Gender inequality continues to exist in advanced industrialized continents and countries and also in underdeveloped third world countries as it is a global issue, such as the US, Canada, England, India, China, Sudan, despite an excess of changes that work against gender discrimination. This inequality continues to exist because of the patriarchal society we live in and have lived in for numerous years. Men have always ruled the social classes and lessened the worth of women and their roles. Given that the dissimilarity in emotional values and connections, which comes along with instinct and empathy. It is believed by societal stereotypes that women are not as dependable in the job market (taking time off bearing children & attending family responsibilities) therefore being a less valued asset to whatever company & its business. Gender inequality is gender discrimination that is enforced either by law or social practice that results in differential pay, promotions, jobs, education, and other forms of representation of men and women.