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Gender Inequality In Nepal

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1- Introduction
Despite the sufficient amount of food around the world to feed all globe’s population, the number of world’s chronically undernourished people increased from 777 million in 2015 to 815 million in 2016 (The United Nations Food and Agriculture organization 2014). BRIDGE (2016) reported that food and nutrition insecurity is gender justice issue and as a result of gender inequality 60% of the world’s undernourished people are females. According to The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (2011) women make essential contribution to food security and comprise more than 40% of agriculture workforce in developing countries. However, their agriculture productivity is less than men. Gender gap exists in agriculture productivity …show more content…

According to Goshi (2000) women’s paid work is treated as half that of men, and unequal wages are paid for the same work. In addition, women are confined to minor subsistence crops, while men involved in cash and commercial production of crops. (Lokshin and Glinskaya 2009). Moreover, women in Nepal spend more than 10 hours daily in unpaid labor including farming and animal care which is 3 hours more than the time men spend (Acharya and Bennett 1983) and spend more than 2 hours daily in domestic work compared to men who spend 56 minutes which make them experiencing extreme drudgery without economic benefits (Budlender and Moussie 2013). Furthermore, women challenge cultural norms about gender role which insists that women role in society is to bear children, domestic work and paid subsistence farming. Additionally, despite the important role of women in farming lands which is the main source of livelihood in Nepal, women don’t have the right to access agriculture productive services or to own lands and the only way to own them through inheritance (Allendorf 2007). All the aforementioned facts proof that women are dominated by men to privilege them and their role in society is unvalued which contribute to women ability to be independent economically and participate in households’ economy. Thus, the radical feminism theory fits Nepal

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