Literature review of Article on Gender Equality

Question: Discuss about the Literature review of an article on gender equality.? Answer: Introduction: The aim of the study is to carry out a critical evaluation of a number of journal articles. The topic selected for the particular study is Gender equality. Gender equality or gender egalitarianism is the view that determines the fact that everyone in the society should receive equal treatment without discriminating people based on their genders. The article by Nyberg et al. (2015) has been selected for conducting the literature review. In order to support the arguments put forwarded by the authors, several other articles will also be evaluated in the study. Interpretation and Analysis of Literature: Gender inequality remains a major barrier to the human development. There are many evidences when girls and women have made major strides but they have failed to gain gender equality. These disadvantages that the girls have to face, act as major source of inequality. In addition to this, women are discriminated in every aspects of life including health, education, labor market and even political representations (Verloo 2016). This situation has created a negative repercussion for the development in terms of their capabilities and curbs their freedom of choices as well. Inequality due to Gap in Income Level: In the provided reading, the main perspective of the argument was to explore objective career success among the men and women of Sweden. It has been commented that people with higher status in the society are benefitted with better health condition. It has been found that there is a gap between the income level of men and women of the country. Associating the financial condition with well being, it has been stated that the men are at a better state of health condition because their income in higher than women. In this respect, Malmusi et al. (2014) has also showed same response that the health condition varies between men and women and the main reason is the inequality in the income between the men and women. There are many evidences where it is evident that women are discriminated when it comes to health care. One of the key points that can be highlighted is that for the insurance premium as well, women have to pay higher than that of the men. Discriminations have been evident when it comes to expenditure of medicines that the women have to pay over men. Inequality in Pay-Scale Structure: Another important thing pointed out by Nyberg et al. (2015) is that there remains a lack of career opportunity among the women as well. Moreover, it has also been pointed out that women are paid lesser than that of the men for doing the same work. For reaching a particular conclusion, a qualitative analysis had been carried on among some women. It has been found that women are not preferred when it comes to promotion in their respective Organizations and if promoted, they do not get an equal hike in their salary as another person of opposite gender gets. Similar kind of response was observed reading Theorell et al. (2013) where the women are found to suffer more stress and pressure at their work place. This work pressure is a combined result of unequal pay scale or extra work that they have to do compare to men at work. There are many evidences where it has been evident that women have great strides at the workplace but still when it comes to inequalities and discrimination, women ha ve to suffer. Gender inequality at work has drawn attention of the government of countries like USA and UK (Branisa et al. 2013). Focus has been made to create a balance in life between men and women but there still remains certain sphere where the women have to suffer because of their gender. Inequality at the Work Place: Nyberg et al. (2015) also came up with the fact that the work done by women is not recognized well and they always remained underprivileged compare to men at the same work place. The expectancy levels from women always remain low because they are found to be inadequate and incompetent when it comes to their ability. It has been widely accepted that there remained gender inequality at the work place. Gender inequality still remained an issue that needs to be solved. There remains an unsolved problem and an imbalanced representation at the senior management at the work place (Branisa et al. 2013). The problem still remained unsolved problems and an imbalance in the pay scale as well as at the managerial representation (Yang and Aldrich 2014). There is plethora of interventions that an employer can choose from in order to redress the inequality at the work. Inequality and biasness has been evident at the time of recruitment as well. Recruitment process has also created a barrier among t he women to get the right place and position where they should be. Instead men get better position and a higher designation at the work place than women (Waldfogel 2013). In fact, certain issues have highlighted on the fact that when training is given to the employees of an organization, men are preferred over women when it comes to the ultimate selection process. Moving women from the employee position to the management position are almost negligible and to some extent, it is restricted (Waldfogel 2013). All these issues are perhaps creating such an environment at the work place that the women are finding it difficult to keep a balanced life. Conclusion: With the detailed discussion done on the inequality of gender, it has been evident that there still remained certain areas in social as well as political sphere where the women have to suffer just because of her gender. Such inequality has been persisting since a long time in spite of undertaking various measurements to increase the quality and equality of the life of female gender. Gender inequality has been a topic of discussion among many states and countries and positive approaches have been made to improve the condition of women but much has not been made in terms of improving the condition. The above made discussion has highlighted the major issues that women face or have to face in the contemporary situation. There is no doubt that there still persists some kind of imbalance between the men and women in social as well as political sphere that needs serious attention. References: Branisa, B., Klasen, S. and Ziegler, M., 2013. Gender inequality in social institutions and gendered development outcomes.World Development,45, pp.252-268. Malmusi, D., Vives, A., Benach, J., and Borrell, C. 2014. 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