THE GLOBAL ISSUE OF GENDER EQUALITY AND ITS IMPACTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Abstract

Some decades lagged behind in the development process, developing countries are now facing a lot of challenges. Poverty, population burden, living gaps, social problems, economic strategy crisis and political crisis, all are confronting their progress. Among the greatest obstacles in their development is the issue of gender equality, which is both a development problem itself, and a great cause to other development problems. For many reasons, gender inequality has for thousands of years in history an accompaniment to human development. In this modern time, it in fact still exists in EVERY part of the world, and is largely popular in many places on earth. Where it is most popular, developing countries, it is exercising great impacts on the development of the society in various ways. Gender disparity is a huge roadblock to a developed and healthy society.