Gender Gap: 

Gender Gap: Gap in any area between women and men in terms of their levels of participation, access, rights, remuneration or benefits.

 A gender gap, by definition, is a disproportionate difference or disparity between the sexes. Conventional wisdom is that differences between boys and girls in math and science are not a matter of biology; any observable differences are influences of the social environment. When parents encourage school-age children to excel in all subject areas, the school-based gender gap disappears.

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In the workplace, gender gaps refer to job opportunities and salary differences. Statistics show that men often earn more for the same work than women. The difference may be a result of the fact that men have been at the top of their professions longer. It takes a long time to undo the past, but bit by bit, the playing field has become more even.

2.      The difference that exists between males and females in access to some social good or benefit based solely on their difference in gender (a difference almost always in favor of men). For example, the gender gap in education refers to the increased likelihood of better educational opportunity and achievement for males than females in most societies.

3.      When economists speak of the “gender gap” these days, they usually are referring to systematic differences in the outcomes that men and women achieve in the labor market. These differences are seen in the percentages of men and women in the labor force, the types of occupations they choose, and their relative incomes or hourly wages. These economic gender gaps, which were salient issues during the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s, have been of interest to economists at least since the 1890s. 

 Gender inequality is a social issue where boys and girls are treated equally. Girls are unacceptable in society and are often killed before birth. In many parts of India, a girl child is killed even before birth. Due to the patriarchal norms, the women have been ranked lower compared to men, and they are subjected to humiliation many a time. Gender inequality is one of the major reasons behind a country not flourishing to its full potential. The economic slope of a country goes down, as women are not encouraged to be a part of the economy, and their rights are suppressed.

The ratio between the boys and the girls is unequal, and due to that, the population increases as if a couple has a girl child, they try again for a boy child.

Gender inequality is a curse to society, and we should try to remove it from our society for the country to make progress.