What is the biggest impact of gender inequality in underdeveloped countries? What are some steps that could be taken to help alleviate or irradicate gender inequality?
Gender inequality in underdeveloped nations, such as those in Africa, usually goes hand in hand with human rights violations. For example, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) leaves, to date, approximately 15 million women living in uncomfortable and painful conditions. A cultural tradition, FGM occurs within a family to ensure that female members don't indulge in promiscuous behaviour. These acts can be done by a health care professional, or by a family in a house. The bottom line is that, along with it being a gross violation of human rights, it is often done in unsanitary conditions leaving room for infections, cysts and child birth defects.
Gender inequality could be stopped by educating the effected populace. If they knew about the health risks associated, perhaps FGM would become less common and eventually die out. In a broader perspective, gender inequality in Africa may be veyr difficult to change because so much of their standards are infused in their culture, religion and history. It would be very difficult to go about changing that, so perhaps we will have to rely on globalization to create a more rights-inspired platform for Africa to further develop on.
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