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INTRODUCTION

What really comes to your mind when you hear of the term “gender inequality?” In the

society we live, men & women exhibit differences that arise from psychology, culture and

physical structures in body appearances. Therefore, with the general knowledge of the

differences experienced by the different genders, gender inequality is the unequal treatment of

individuals just because they are of a male or female gender. Gender inequality is at most times

associated with certain effects on society and overall development and progress of a society or a

state because it is usually a translation that there is one gender that is favored. Gender inequality

has been recognized internationally as a threat to societal development and has led to the overall

lagging of development agendas in society and has to be dealt with to have societal development.

There is no positive effect that is brought to society by gender inequality and therefore, gender

inequality is ambiguous and can be a great hindrance when it comes to growth.

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Jayachandran, S. (2015). The roots of gender inequality in developing countries. economics,

7(1), 63-88. Retrieved from: [Link]

economics-080614-115404#_i37

This article explores the role of gender in creating underdevelopment in the developing

countries by pointing into factors associated with education and cultural views. There

seem to be factors that lead to slow developments in developing countries since they have

developed gender favored gaps for males in health & education. There are also other

factors included in the article as they seem to cause gender inequality in employment,
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gender violence, the power of marriage decision making, freedom of choices all which

are seen to cause underdevelopment and more so to the yet developed countries.

This article is useful for the research study because it shows the existence of gender gaps,

the root causes of these gender gaps and the effects they cause in the development. Also,

the article gives various propositions through recommendations on what has to be done in

order to increase the gender participation for women and thus increase the development

of those countries seen as developing countries.

Keenan, J. C., Kemp, D. L., & Ramsay, R. B. (2016). Company–community agreements, gender

and development. Journal of Business Ethics, 135(4), 607-615. Retrieved from:

[Link]

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This article investigates the agreement between community and company on the

agreements of the needs priorities and rights of the people affected by mining activities in

ensuring that benefits are shared equally. The research article indicates that women seem

to be more affected by mining activities than men do and also face the challenges of

accessing the opportunities for development that are accompanied by mining activities.

With the disputes that happen in such cases women receive little from mining activities,

the article notes that this is attributed by the community, government and company little

efforts in documenting guidelines that help in the delivery of the benefits of mining to

both women and men.

This article is of great use in the research because it highlights the factors that cause the

inequalities for the female and female development in the mining and points out the
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various issues and considerations that the community, government, and mining company

have to do to achieve equal gender benefits and development from the mining company.

Dreher, A., Gehring, K., & Klasen, S. (2015). Gesture politics or real commitment? Gender

inequality and the allocation of aid. World Development, 70, 464-480. Retrieved from:

[Link]

This article is research that is investigating the role of donors on giving aid to countries

with gender inequalities and aims looks into the amount of aid given to countries with

gender inequality. To measure the relationship between the amount of aid allocated and

the gender inequalities, there is a classification of gender inequalities in order to measure

the male ratio as well as the female ratio in each of the classified gender inequality types.

This research article documents that high gender gaps are associated with high aid

allocations as well as in the cases where there are high numbers of female representation

in politics seem to receive high aid allocations. There seems to be little attention paid to

merit when it comes to aid allocation and he is a danger because it is the only way that

could help in breaching the gap of inequality.

This article, for my gender inequality research, is important for the authors explore the

various factors considered by donors in the allocation of aid in the efforts of creating

equality and identifies areas which have to improved in donor funding for the

achievement of inequality and this serves as a base for future study in this area.

Mihaila, R. (2016). Female labor force participation and gender wage discrimination. Journal of

Research in Gender Studies, 6(1), 262. Retrieved from:

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participation-and-gender-wage-discrimination

This article is an investigation of the causes as well as the consequences of the

participation of the labor force brought by the female gender. Also, the article looks

further into the managerial impact that comes with female gender integration as well as

the wage discrimination changes. An analysis of study in the article leads to similar

complements as those on organizational as well as established schemes levels and the

practices that are crucial drivers of work based inequality of gender, labor market

outcomes driven by gender and the way in which relative wages of both men & women

are different in the different market spheres of labor.

This article is an important source of information on the issues of gender inequality

because it offers detailed information of the disparities that exist in the labor markets in

which there is an existing pay gap between the two genders as well as female

participation in labor force markets.

Ferrant, G., & Nowacka, K. (2015). Measuring the drivers of gender inequality and their impact

on development: the role of discriminatory social institutions. Gender & Development,

23(2), 319-332. Retrieved from:

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This article gives a highlight of the roles fundamentally played by the discriminatory

institution laws of society, social norms as well as formal & informal practices because

they are the main causes of gender-driven inequality. This article uses the index of social
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& gender institutions as it was formulated by Development Center in the assessment of

the cost that is attributed to the discrimination on gender bases in the institutions that are

committed to human as well as economic development. The article identifies such issues

as being complex in the work advocacy because arguments based on rights seem to have

less influence.

This article is an important piece of information for the research because it provides

information the is useful in the feasible measurement of the invisible and at the same time

an assurance in ensuring that norms of the society are playing an impact in the social

policies elaboration. The article also shares the ways in which girls lives and women lives

are affected in development by the existence of these inequalities.

CONCLUSION

Gender inequality has proved to be an issue that is leading to slow development in many

parts across the world. This inequality cuts across education, health as well as the labor market in

which male gender is seen to be dominating these sectors. The efforts carried out in ensuring that

there is gender equality are most of the time funded on the basis of the places that exhibit

disparities in gender inequalities and not based on merit and this in most cases benefits those

areas in which there are more of female political representatives. Successful adoption of better

practices as well as policies that eliminate the existing gender inequalities would see an

improvement in the social as well as economic development of most societies where women are

seen to be of fewer values and the world as a whole would experience development as well.