Gender inequality has wide-ranging and adverse implications for all of society. For this reason, the United Nations has made it a top priority to address this issue through the Sustainable Development Goals, which state that gender equality is not only a fundamental human right but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. Gender Inequality and its Implications on Education and Health explains the different implications of gender inequality and finds solutions to our most pressing issues. The authors of these collected studies show that though in various contexts around the globe, girls and women are discouraged and prevented from receiving quality education, proper health care, women empowerment and social justice, if this exclusion is eliminated it produces many additional socio-economic gains that benefit entire societies. Focusing largely on India to explore firstly the implications of gender inequality on education and health and then gender inequality and its implications to other SDGs, the chapters extend globally to analyse countries from Asia, Australia, Africa, and Europe. Raising awareness among stakeholders and institutions to recognise the importance of gender inequality throughout the world and its various implications – especially on education and health – Gender Inequality and its Implications on Education and Health provides strategies to achieve gender equality.

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Chakraborty, Chandrima; Pal, Dipyaman

EMERALD GROUP PUBL

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Emerald Publishing, Bingley, U.K., 2023

Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
About the Contributors
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction • Chandrima Chakraborty and Dipyaman Pal
Section I: Implications of Gender Inequality on Education and Health
1 Adverse Child Sex Ratio in India: The Role of Women’s Agency, an Empirical Analysis • Antara Bhattacharyya and Sushil Kr. Haldar
2 Do Government Expenditures on Education and Health Reduce Gender Inequality? The Case of the Least Developed and Developing Countries • Gizem Kaya Aydin
3 Is There Any Relationship Between Gender Inequality and Nutrition? Experience From India • Kavitha Kasala, Rudra Prosad Roy and Abhishek Das
4 Gender Discrimination in Education Expenditure in Public Primary Schools in Rural India Among Religious Groups: An Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition Analysis • Puja Biswas and Amit Kundu
5 Can Gender Inequality in School Enrollment Hinder the Efficiency of the Education Sector? • Sangita Choudhury and Arpita Ghose
6 Understanding Gender Through an Educational Construct • Manisha Subba
7 Gender Inequality in India Intertwined Between Education and Employment • Dyuti Chatterjee and Pallabi Banerjee
8 A Critique of Gender Inequality: Study of Education and Health in the North Bengal Region • Bishal Rai
9 Gender Bias in Child Deprivation: A Study in the Context of West Bengal, India • Satyanarayan Kumbhakar and Pinaki Das
10 Is Dropout in Schools Related to Gender and Birth Order? • Chayanika Mitra and Indrani Sengupta
11 Investigating the Role of Air Quality and the Nexus Between Female Health Status and Their Labor Force Participation Rate: Evidence From Rural India • Kaushiki Banerjee and Arpita Ghose
Section II: Gender Inequality and Its Implications to Other SDGs
12 Only Development or Gender Norm? Explaining Gender Inequality in Emerging Market Economies • Amrita Chatterjee
13 Women Empowerment as a Key to Support Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and Global Sustainable Development • Begum Sertyesilisik
14 Linkage Between Women Empowerment and Gender-Based Violence in India: Evidence From NFHS-5 Data • Susobhan Maiti, Tanushree Gupta and Govind Singh Rajpal
15 Public Social Expenditures and Outcomes in Nigeria: ALook Through the Gender Lens • Nkechinyere Rose Uwajumogu, Ebele Stella Nwokoye, Kingsley Chike Okoli and Mgbodichimma K. Okoro
16 Equitable Pathways for a Sustainable Future: The Case for Mainstreaming Gender Across Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) • Ananya Chakraborty and Sreerupa Sengupta
17 Sustainable Environment and Urbanization Policies to Enhance Gender Equality and Women Empowerment • Egemen Sertyesilisik
18 Understanding Gender, Poverty, and Social Justice: A New Look From the Perspectives of Indian Experience • Asim K. Karmakar, Sebak K. Jana and Sovik Mukherjee
19 Twitter Imparting and Reinforcing Gender-Based Identities of the Aboriginal Australia Women • Ali Saha
20 The Impact of the Pandemic on the Female Unorganized Sector Workers: A Study in the Rural Backdrop of West Bengal • Srimoyee Datta and Tarak Nath Sahu
21 A Gender Sustainable Development Index for Italian Regions • Marianna Bartiromo and Enrico Ivaldi
22 Association Between Crime Against Women and Income Inequality: A Study on Indian States • Debarati Nandigrami and Ramesh Chandra Das
23 Gender Responsive Budgeting Approach to Combating Climate Change • Gamze Yildiz Şeren
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