Gender inequality essay
Women in this world have less power than men, and the UN millennium project
is trying to give balance. Girl’s enrollment in school ratios have significantly
increased in recent years, but the 2005 goal was missed and major challenges
remain. There are large inequality gaps in primary education. Access to
university level education remains highly unequal, like in southern Asia, there
are only 76 girls for every 100 boys that go to university. Poverty is the main
cause of this unequal education. Girls are forced to get water and can’t attend
school because of bad sanitation facilities. Secondary education is most
important for women’s empowerment. Despite the progress made, men still
outnumber women, and even if women get jobs, they are paid less than men,
with also less financial and social security. Around the world, women are slowly
gaining power. From 1995 to 2010, women’s share of political power increased
from 11 to 19 percent, but still, 58 countries have less than ten percent of
women in the parliament. Globally, women only share 16 percent of ministerial
posts. As you can see, men have better lives than women around the world, and
the UN millennium project is trying to solve the gender equality. What needs to
be done in the MUN session is that the session should give solutions to the hard
problem. Some of the solutions could be short-term or long-term that shall make
men and women equal in the same ways. We should have good discussions and
solutions.
Germany is currently thirteenth in the gender inequality index and has 32.2
percent of the women in political power. One of them, Angela Merkel was voted
for in 2005 and is still in political power today. Since 1990, many women have
started to work, and now, 73 percent of Germany’s women are working either
part time or full time. In 1991, only 11.9 percent of the women were working,
and in 2004, it increased to 40.6 percent. Even though the women work a lot,
there is still a 23 percent gap of the wages between men and women, and that is
one of the widest gaps in Europe. Germany has tried to empower women more
since the 1980. The CDU, also known as the Christian democratic party, made
laws that would promote woman participation. Because of this early progress,
Germany is now 13th out of all of the 170 countries in the UN.
To solve the gender inequality worldwide, we have to solve the economic,
education, politics and the health problems. For economic problems, we or the
UN would have to enforce laws that say that women should get the same pay rate
as a man in the same job, and also that women will be treated as equally as men
would. For the education problem, we would encourage women to put school as
their first priority, and tell that women can have the job(s) they want to have, so
they will not give up. For the health problem, it would be important if the women
get the same pay rate as men, because if they do, they will manage to look after
themselves and so they would not get married too early. For the last problem,
which is politics, it would be good if each country would open at least 40 to 50
percent of their political slots to women, so they will also have power and that
they can be as successful as a man would be.
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http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2006/01/feature/de0601202f.htm
http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/Gender_Equality_in_Germany
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