Meahgan Hayes
11/4/11
It is a known fact that over the last century, the move to improve women’s rights throughout the world has been impressive and in most cases extremely successful. Especially over the past six years. According to the article that I have chosen for this week, the gender equality ratios have improved drastically in just about eighty five percent of countries world wide. And while this is a mile stone that is very important to the movement toward total gender equality, there are still inequalities that most women are globally facing. There is still a sizable gap of inequality between men and women when it comes to economic participation and political empowerment. The study that this article analyzes is called the Global Gender Gap and it illustrates gender-disparity gaps between men and women from 135 countries. The study showed that there is impressive progress when it comes to the gap as far as education and health are concerned, but economic participation only held 59 percent and political empowerment was an even lower percentage, at a disappointing estimation of 18. One of the issues that is being attributed to these gaps are the social customs that each of these countries might have and might have had since their beginning.
Personally, I think it is incredibly heartening to know that there are countries besides ours that are trying to level the playing field, so to speak, for their female citizens. I think that the ever growing spread of Globalization will eventually assist women in reaching a level where women can be considered equal in ever way.
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