Development

How did you arrive at this position?

I arrived at this position because being a woman myself, it becomes difficult when equal rights are not given. We should have just as many equal rights as men do. This is why the Gender Inequality Index is very important as it gives us an idea of the inequality we are seeing today for women. This gives a whole different perspective for our society seeing that women are just as capable to do things that men can do.

How has interacting w/ classmates and/or life experiences informed or modified your views on this open-ended question?

Interacting with classmates has modified my views on this question by the different types of developments and what they do. For example, sustainable development goals were mentioned where we can see how each goal is different. And in the textbook was stated, “What we do and how we produce goods has a profound effect on the environment, on our economics, on our broader society to include things like education and healthcare, on how our cities grow and change, on where our population is located, on poverty within our countries and around the world” (Finlayson). This goes along with every development as each one has a different way of doing things. And with this, development also shapes our society into changing/evolving.

What does scholarly research say about this problem?

Scholarly research says that the form of index of the GII is unnecessarily confusing. It is stated, "Moreoever, the inclusion of indicators that compare the relative performance of women/men, together with absolute women-specific indicators, obscures even more the interpretations of an already complicated index and penalizes the performance of low-income countries" (tandfonline). But, there's also a way to overcome this. It is stated from the article, "The results suggest that great caution should be exercised when interpreting and using the values of the GII" (tandfonline). And with this, a much simpler form is used when using the GII variables.