The biggest impact of gender inequality is the continuance of the cycle of poverty. There are many contributing factors to poverty that if go unchecked will allow it to go on indefinitely, one of which is gender inequality. Inequalities in the household limit the families ability to make money and thus purchase necessary supplies like food, shelter, and clean water. Stereotypes exist where the women are expected to do all the chores and take care of the household. This renders her unable to get a proper education and get a job. The cycle continues when boys are given priority education over the girls. Perhaps a family will sacrifice a girl’s education in order to buy food, while the boy is kept in school.
The best way to solve this problem is awareness and empowerment. First of all people in developing and developed nations need to realize that there exists a huge inequality between the two genders in developing nations. This way pressure can be applied to both first and third world governments to provide more opportunities for women. Empowerment is equally important. Women need to learn and realize that they too can have a successful life in the workplace. When women become empowered we will start seeing more girls demanding an education. They won’t take the stereotype that women are supposed to do chores while they boys get educated. Once this inequality is broken then we will see a reduction of the gap between the two genders. This will lead to many positive things such as more women in parliament and decreasing levels of poverty.
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