Gender Inequality: Causes, Consequences And Solutions

Sebastian Freigang

PLSC 309, Globalization

Professor Jennifer Noveck

Gender inequality, causes, consequences and solutions

This essay will attempt to analyze to what extent inequality directly impacts Gender Based violence, and to what possible solutions can be made based on presented evidence in our reading and “pray the devil back to hell”. I will examine factors that connect communities to inequality and then contrast them with gender violence, with an attempt to bring solutions to possibly prevent or at least limit this violence, and examine whether globalization can secure this. I argue that within communities, inequality can lead to gender violence and exploitation of women and that there are multiple factors that can increase that or lessen these. Additionally, in order to prevent these, communities must be willing to incorporate the affected population into talks.

The primary factor, when examining inequality, is income. Communities which are low income are more prevalent for factors which are associated with the exploitation of women. With lack of income comes lack of chance for education. This leads

Carrón highlights that the women that do not subject themselves to the typical sphere of the norm are often subject to increased gender violence, if they are in positions of power then these “assaults” are there to put them back into place . Carrón uses this in the case of South America, but you can see, the desire for control, which male communities have, is not localized there. In Liberia, one can see that through the efforts to impose the fear into women when fighters entered villages. The way in which warlords reacted when confronted with women who had stepped out of these norms, threatening violence against