POLI 227 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Gender Inequality Index, Gender Parity Index, Democratic Republic Of The Congo
29 Mar 2017
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Women in ldcs are concentrated in certain occupations including agriculture, domestic service, street vending and teaching. However, face barriers to entering other occupations such as management and higher-paid professions. Gender inequality and exploitation more severe in ldcs. Painful and dangerous female genital mutilation in parts of africa, the middle east and. Sale of child brides for dowries in bangladesh. Murders of several thousand indian women annually by husbands who were dissatisfied with the size of their dowries. Courts that (cid:272)o(cid:374)do(cid:374)e (cid:862)ho(cid:374)or killi(cid:374)gs(cid:863) of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) suspe(cid:272)ted of e(cid:454)tra(cid:373)arital relatio(cid:374)s or even dating unapproved partners. Economic deprivations that drive many women into prostitution, often involuntarily. A village chief in rural west bengal, india learned that a woman had accepted to marry a man outside the village. He and the council ordered her to stop the marriage. When family refused to pay, he ordered villagers to gang-rape her, which many of them did.
