Jordan Wilson
9/9/10
11:24pm
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro spoke today about the inequality gaps between men and women. She said that the gender inequality should be a top priority because women make up a large proportion of people living in poverty. In many of the categories of poverty, women are affected the most. In health care, “maternal mortality is still the leading cause of death of women of child-bearing age across the developing world.” This fatality is easily prevented by check-ups, birthing professionals and emergency care. In education, two thirds of the almost 800 million illiterate adults in the world are women, who are not given the educational opportunities that many men are. Instead, women are expected to work in places that are often overlooked by anti-poverty policies. Ms. Migiro stresses that economic development and change will not occur if they continue to ignore the gender differences.
I think that these are valid points to bring up in the discussion of gender gaps in inequality. Pointing out these statistics is important and will help direct poverty relief efforts more efficiently. What Ms. Migiro does not talk about are ways to address these issues. While it is useful to point out the deficiencies in governmental policies, it would be more helpful to also describe specific ways in which these deficiencies may be ameliorated. The forum does last three days, so I hope that at some point, Ms. Migiro will address how to go about fixing the issues.
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1 comment:
Gender inequality is a tough issue. It my viewpoint a lot can be done by increasing awareness and money towards family planning measures that seem to be nonexistent in many developing or under-developed nations
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