Gender Inequality and Women's Rights: Contemporary Statistics and Contextual Background

This report discusses the issues related to women's rights and gender inequality, focusing on the pay gap, access to education and employment opportunities. It provides supporting evidence of gender inequality in various aspects of life and highlights the challenges faced by women. The report also includes a reflection on the role of promoting gender equality and the need for better initiatives to protect women's rights.

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Contents
PART 2............................................................................................................................................2
Contemprary statistics and contextual background.....................................................................2
Sources to provide supporting evidence......................................................................................2
Short reflection on the role..........................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
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PART 2
Contemprary statistics and contextual background
Gender inequality means that men and women are not considered equal. These
distinctions arise from psychological, physical and biological norms. Present report will discuss
about the issues related to women rights. In United Kingdom, they follow significant gaps in pay
and mostly it has been analysed that females are paid less when the comparison is being done
with male. They also do not get equal access to educational and employment opportunities. In
United Kingdom men earn more than 17.9% than women. This means that men earn £1 whereas
women earn 8.2p. From this ratio it can be clearly seen that females are paid less and they are
also considered lower than male. When comparison is being done on working hours males in UK
tend to work for longer hours than the females. One of the main reasons behind this is people
think that its male can perform better than women. In UK gender pay gap was 17.3% which is
quite higher. This clearly means that women are not provided with equal rights. This is because
in United Kingdom women fill up more part time job because of their family issues and they are
being paid less for that.
Sources to provide supporting evidence
Various evidences have been given to prove that gender inequality exists in all parts of
the world. It has been analysed that women are not able to grow professionally because they are
higher victim of crime. 3.4% of women faces domestic abuse and violence which is much higher
than men facing same (Heise and et.al., 2019). It has also been analysed that in United Kingdom
the income of 33% of males arrives from the sources which are private like for example pension.
This in comparison to male, the percentage of women is 25%. It has also been analysed that the
pay gaps also exist in workplaces (Fincher, 2016). Women are paid low when the comparison is
done with males. This decreases women confidence and also because of this they are not being
able to grab better positions. It has also been analysed that inequality is being faced by women at
home, workplace and even in politics. In every field woman are considered as below than males.
Research has also provided that during the COVID-19 pandemic in UK, women are losing their
jobs at higher proportion than male. It means that gender pay gap may worsen in all the
conditions.Conditions have been worsening in service sectors where majority of women
population worked. In this it includes interaction with customers and for those women who are
working here are paid less in comparison to males. The pandemic situation has made condition
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of women adverse (Heymann and et.al., 2019). It has also been analysed that there are also
differences in subjective well-being. Women are also not given with better health educational
services. They are overlooked and also equal and fair access to services are also not given to
them. In order to improve this condition better initiatives needs to be taken by parliament.
Short reflection on the role
Team has worked towards providing equal rights to women, in this my role was to
increase awareness among women related to education and employment opportunities they can
gain. Team really worked hard to make women realise their positions. My role was to enhance
confidence among women so that they can also achieve what they desire. I have learnt about that
in United Kingdom gender pay gap basically exists as women are not given with better resources
and chances to win. Most of the companies appoint men on higher position as they think that
women can’t perform better in comparison to male. I have also learnt they also lack behind male
because of their personal issues like family burden. They also do not have proper educational
opportunities. I have also analysed that most of the women are not able to achieve what they
want as women are being victim of sexual crim more. I have learnt that gender inequality exists
because of the stereotype thinking that men are everything and they are runner of world. Women
on the other hand are considered fragile and most of the people think that they look good when
handling all household chores. Gender quality is really important and women should fight for
their rights so that better and fair opportunities are also being provided to them. This will assist
women in living productive life. Also, I have analysed that better initiatives needs to be taken by
parliament for protection of women. They should be given better resources and opportunities.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Heise, L. and et.al., 2019. Gender inequality and restrictive gender norms: framing the
challenges to health. The Lancet, 393(10189), pp.2440-2454.
Fincher, L.H., 2016. Leftover women: The resurgence of gender inequality in China. Zed Books
Ltd..
Heymann, J. and et.al., 2019. Improving health with programmatic, legal, and policy approaches
to reduce gender inequality and change restrictive gender norms. The
Lancet, 393(10190), pp.2522-2534.
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