Gender Inequality is a global issue, 50% of the earths population is being mistreated, simply because they are not male. However it is in developing nations that this issue is most prominent.
Before I go into further detail concerning discrimination against women, I will explain the main role that women play in these developing countries.
It is the women's responsibility to cook, and prepare every meal for the entire family, it is the women's responsibility to keep the house clean, and sometimes walk miles for drinking water, and most importantly it is the woman's responsibility to raise and care for the children.
It is this final responsibility that I view as being the most critical to the overall problem of Gender Equality, for a mother will teach everything she knows to her children. If a woman is kept in the dark with regards to having a fulfilled education simply because of her gender, she will never be able to teach her children how to read or write, and it is very unlikely that the father (if he is even present) will be willing to spend the time to educate his children, and so this cycle of illiteracy, and mistreatment continues, simply because of a society unwilling to allow its women to be educated.
The traditional role that many women fulfill is due to the extremely patriarchal society that is rooted into the core of these countries, in order to abolish gender inequality we need to start by educating the children in these countries about the important position that women hold in society.
I ultimately believe that education is the key to this problem, however children are not the only ones in need of an education. Many of the countries that support gender inequality are still developing and so rely on aid from foreign nations to help support their populations. I believe that the organizations that send in aid should be allowed to demand that the Governments of these countries focus on educating their public as a whole, with specific regard to this issue.
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