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It refers to disparity due to gender.
It stems from distinctions, whether empirically grounded or socially constructed.
10 most extreme examples of gender inequality:
Forbidden from driving
Access to education
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• Access to Health Care, Education, & Other Resources
70% of the 855 million illiterate adults in the world are female
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•America's Glass Ceiling
In the U.S., women earn only 77 cents on the dollar paid to men
Ethnic minorities earn considerably less.
•Political Representation
52% of the humans on the planet are female, yet only 17% of members of national parliaments worldwide are women.
•Legal Status & Property Rights
99% of the world's assets are in men's names
• ‘’I will intensify the pangs of your childbearing; in pain shall you bring forth children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall be your master’’(3:16). And to the man He said: ‘’Cursed be the ground because of you! In toil shall you eat its yield all the days of your life”(3:17). And then, they were banished from the Garden of Eden(3:23). Pain and suffering has entered the world the woman!’’
References:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism• http://listverse.com/2008/11/20/10-extreme
-examples-of-gender-inequality/• http://www.iamapeacekeeper.com/genderi
nequalityinsociety.htm• http://www.who.int/gender/hiv_aids/en/• Political Science 2 book