There are some reasons for gender inequality and this includes the education levels of people, tradition and culture, religion, empowerment as well as the bad mentality and stereotypes of our society. In some countries, the education is low and many people are unable to afford and get a proper education. Many families do not see girls as an equal to boys and hence, often neglect girls and thus girls are unable to get a proper education and attend school. Tradition and culture also play a part in gender inequality. In some countries like Africa, some elders in these villages do not regard women leadership as something significant and do not support this. This ultimately leads to gender inequality as men will keep getting the leadership positions and women remain at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Furthermore, empowerment is lacking in some countries. People are not being educated and informed well enough about women empowerment and how gender inequality can lead to violation of rights and sexual violence. With minimal knowledge on these in certain countries, people will continue having the same mindset that men is superior to women and this eventually draws a greater difference between the two genders. The bad mentalities and stereotypes of many in our society further aggravates the fact that women are to stay at home to do household chores and take care of family members rather than to join their male peers to go and study in school. With this stereotype, people continue to believe in this and hence further highlights gender inequality.

Gender Inequality and its Causes

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