Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 CommerceEconomicsPOVERTY3 Marks
Question
How gender inequality results in poverty? Discuss
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Answer
Gender inequality:
There has always been gender inequality in the Indian society. Males are preferred over females from day one.
Society cares less about health of. females. As a result, women face more problems of malnourishment, low weight and weakness. This causes high infant and mortality during childbirth and health problems among new born child.
Our set-up is such that there is a belief that women need to remain at home and do household works. So, they remain less or even uneducated and they do not get any economic opportunities to work.
Apart from this at work places, women are paid less compared to males.
All these reasons bring down the family income and increase poverty.
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