Gender Inequality And Women Empowerment

In the same way gender equality and women empowerment have vital effects on poverty elimination. Gender equality itself is one of the MD goals, but also it is efficient when reducing poverty. Most of the poorest people are women and they are also family caretakers, cookers, producers and providers of food. Their burden is hard and in Kenya to get just water women burn 85% of her calories. Gender Development Group suggests that countries having high gender equality approaches low poverty rates. It can be understood by two main reasons, first, reducing gender inequality in employment will motivate women to have better education and more income. If women treated equally, they are better educated, healthier and have access to financial and land

For instance, Department of International Development shows that the most rapid growth is essential in implementing Millennium Development Goals, because their study shows that the 11 countries experienced reduction of poverty due to the sustained growth. They concluded that 1% increase in income is 1.7% decrease in poverty. Creation of “circle of prosperity and opportunities” is the main reason why economic growth is important. Because, growth changes society by creating employment opportunities, which in its turn creates higher demand for labor. It increases human development, where people, especially children, get better education, creating a future group of successful workers. Growth improves health and education opportunities. They consider that the economic growth is the driving force of all other factors which improves human’s life, but this paper considers that economic growth is achieved through development of other

It is lack of basic things people need to survive and live, like money, water, sanitation, education and healthcare. Poor people often face discrimination and violence, due to their insecurity and powerlessness. In order to eliminate such huge problem, world organizations created Millennium Development Goals where eradicating poverty is the first goal to achieve. The goals in this document are linked and achieving one of them affects to number of other goals. To alleviate the poverty many factors should be considered, like quality education which empowers skills and productivity, greater access to healthcare that gives people opportunity to work to sustain their families, gender equality and empowerment of women, which will increase income of family and well-being of children and boosting agriculture to feed people and increase nutrition. World’s youngest people, children, are very vulnerable and innocent, so they should be protected in the first place. Poverty reduction needs balanced strategy including not only economic growth, but above mentioned factors. Moreover, investing in children now will create the foundation for sustainable development and reduction of poverty in