Faculty of Arts and Law
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The University of the South Pacific
School of Literature, Language and Media
Faculty of Arts and Law
UU114 ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
ASSIGNMENT
1
Raymond Rao
ID: S11100947
2013
DISCUSS THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF EMPOWERING WOMEN SO THAT THEY CAN HOLD OTHER POSITION APART FROM TRADITIONAL ONES.
PLAN
Introduction
Content: Gender Equity
Subject: Empowerment of women
Limited Subject:
- Equality
- Equal distribution of power and opportunity
Issue: It is important to recognize that there are advantages as well as disadvantages of empowering women
Thesis: The main ideas will basically be revolving around three main ideas; economic, social and education empowerment.
Main Idea 1: Economic
- Reproductive and sexual health
- finishing education, poverty
- access to health services
- Education has far reaching effects
- Job market: pressured by adolescents
- formal and informal
Main Idea 2: Social
- Protect household and sustain livelihood
- Economic risk
- vulnerability at household level
- operating in informal sectors
- Fertility
- Mistimed or unintended births
- Significant mismatch
Main Idea 3: Education
- Quality of education
- Provides knowledge skills, self confidence
- Increase enrollment for girls
- Education and training
- Determines age of marriage
- Birth of first child
- with child at an early age
Conclusion
Restatement of thesis (in different words): In conclusion it is vital to realize the disadvantages of women empowerment mainly in terms with economical and social stand in the general society
Implication (why was the issue important) the benefits of empowering women can present to a society in terms of improving women’s health supports economic empowerment which results in eliminating poverty, educations helps resolve major social problems and all of which has proven its drawbacks when the pressure of women empowerment transpires
Recommendation: Women empowerment need not be overlooked; however its benefits and drawbacks should be taken into consideration and scrutinized.
Final thought: empowering women is rather necessary and needed then preferable.
Discuss The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Empowering Women So That They Can Hold Other Position Apart From Traditional Ones.
Gender equality implies a society in which women and men enjoy the same opportunities, outcomes, rights and obligations in all specialties of life. A critical aspect of promoting gender equality is the empowerment of women. What it simply means is to focus on identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving women more independence to manage their own lives. There is equality between men and women proven that there is equal distribution of power and influence; have equal opportunities for financial independence through work or through setting up businesses; enjoy equal access to education and the opportunity to develop personal ambitions. However, it is important to recognize that there are advantages as well as disadvantages of empowering women. The advantages and the disadvantages will be revolving around three main ideas; economic, education and social empowerment in the region.
Improving women’s health strengthens their economic empowerment. According to DAC Network on Gender Equality (April 2011), “Access to sexual and reproductive information and services (including information about HIV transmission) and reduced rates of early marriages, increase women’s chances of finishing education and breaking out of poverty.” As a result access to health services can be enhanced by reducing user costs, providing transport and strengthening the accountability of service providers. The empowerment of women needs to take into account women’s health, in particular sexual and reproductive health.
Social protection has the potential to enhance women’s economic empowerment, protect household income and sustain livelihoods. The basis for targeting resources to women is that it would lead to greater programme effectiveness. It should be noted, however, that social protection alone cannot deal with the role of gender relations in unequal distribution of wealth at household and community level. These measures include; cash and in-kind transfers, social insurance, targeted social welfare programmes, aim to protect household income and consumption, to prevent negative coping strategies and to promote sustainable livelihoods and income generating activities. Social protection measures often address economic risk and vulnerability at the household level, and neglect social risks, such as discrimination based on sex, time resource allocation within the household and social exclusion. Gender and intergenerational unfairness within the household are often overlooked.
Effective implementation of gender-responsive social protection measures is constrained by restrictions on women’s access to paid work, childcare provisions preventing women from working outside the home, and legal systems which do not support women’s rights………to achieve real and sustainable social protection for women, a change in the economic model should be considered. UNIDO (February 2010)
In some countries, it is especially important to consider that most women operate in the informal sector and in rural areas, where jobs are generally insecure and poorly-paid with few benefits, and often not covered by formal social protection programmes. So, consideration should be given to new design methods.
Mothers with an edification are less likely to have mistimed or unintended births. Besides they intend to have fewer children through greater influence in household negotiation by securing more resources for her children. It is not enough to make education more widely available; the quality of the education also needs to be improved. Arguing that the poor quality of education may lead to a significant mismatch between the labor market's needs and graduates' skills, the 2002 Arab Human Development Report points out that education in the region often fails to teach students to analyze information or think innovatively. The report also warns that education systems may split into two tiers, with high-quality private education available only to the wealthy minority and low-quality public education the sole option for most citizens. Such a trend would turn education into a "means of perpetuating social stratification and poverty" rather than a means of increasing social equality. The education of parents is linked to their children's educational attainment, and the mother's education is usually more influential than the father's.
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