Figure 1.2: Shows the poster of MDG goal number …show more content…
The main reason this goal was created is because of discrimination and violence the woman in the world still face to this date and they want woman to get more recognition and want to greater the woman empowerment movement. Woman suffer both economical and social discrimination. Achieving this goal will have an instrumental effect on the development of our world. This opposite direction of causality results from the huge development impact, especially the social development impact that women’s development brings about. There are other advantages of promoting gender equality and empowering women, for example, it will help reduce the fertility rate and the rapid population growth, it will also have an impact on child mortality; enhance the nutrition, health, living conditions, upgrades the performance of children in school and also helps the world have better economic …show more content…
India is doing worse than EAP in all of the gender inequality sub-indicators. An example would be, the total percentage of women aged 25 or older with at least secondary level education was close to around 54.6% for easter asia and pacific (EAP), whereas for India, it was just 26.6%, which was lower than LEDC’s such as Bhutan (34%) and Bangladesh (30.8%). After doing further research I found out that the most fundamental expression of gender inequality in India is the liking of sons instead of daughters. The CSR which is the child sex ration in the age group 0 to 6 years has shown that there has been from 962 in 1981 to 927 in 2001 to 919 in 2011, owing to both the widespread use of sex determination tests, sex selective foeticide and the continued discrimination against girls after birth. There are many states in India which are far behind in making improvements in this serious issue and are not doing much to improve women