Gender Inequality in The United Kingdom

The Political Economy of Inequality

Executive Summary
Inequality has emerged to be one of the core challenge which is faced by emerging
economies. Inequalities are generally referred to the differences faced by people due to their
distinct biological characteristics. The various types of discriminations are differentiated on the
basis of nationality, race, colour, religion and more, gender inequality is considered as the most
occurrence one. Women due to persistence of male patriarchy, women face number of problems
and barriers for improvement and enhancement of quality of their life. They get less opportunity
to work outside their homes as well as when they apply for same job profile, then companies
would like to prefer to hire male labours. In this regard, it demotivates women and makes their
situation vulnerable in respective society, working hour of females as compared to male is also
much high, because as per traditional and old thinking, women are always given responsibility to
do household work first. If they work outside the home such as in shops, stores, multinational or
local companies, still they have to perform entire domestic work also. This would raise working
hours for them and arise critical situations also to manage work, home and well-being of home.
In present study, a case analysis is done on The United Kingdom with an intention to
explore how much this nation is efficient in promoting and maintaining gender equalities within
its territorial boundaries. For this purpose, a number of factors have been evaluated like
ineffective distribution of human rights, labour rights, household works and male dominant
societies etc. which highly affect condition of women. For this purpose, government of
respective nation however, have taken many steps, but still they fail to maintain and give equal
rights to women to get equal opportunity to live like men. In this regard, within present study,
effectiveness of policy taken by British Government to overcome from barrier of economic
development are evaluated.

Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
Title: Gender Inequality in The United Kingdom............................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Nature and extent of inequality including factors which cause gender inequality......................1
Structure of Policy Analysis........................................................................................................6
Political and Economic Consequences of gender inequality.......................................................8
Policies to reduce gender inequality............................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10