Gender equality refers to the idea of equal treatment of women and men. Different social settings have divergent views regarding equality between the sexes (Krook, 2012, p. 103). For instance, In the US, women and men have equal rights to education, employment and government positions, commerce among other social issues, this is, however, not the case in many developing countries in Africa and South Asia. This response will Seek to discuss gender equality issues on the global, national and individual setting. While equality between the sexes has been successfully achieved in many western countries, the progress is yet to be achieved in other countries especially the middle east.
Global gender equality varies from one country to another. For example, the Saudi Arabian kingdom. Gender inequality in Saudi Arabia discriminates against women rights, and this is a challenge to the global gender equality campaigns. Women in Saudi Arabia face various challenges to equality as face a gap in the work employment. Women in Saudi Arabia account for 13% of the of the country’s employment positions both in public and the private sector. This employments rate is lower taking into account that the Saudi national constitute 51% of employment positions in the country (Dammam, 2015). The rate is way low compared to that for men. In my opinion, although there is a push for global gender equality championed by the United Nations, global gender equality has not been achieved. While some countries like the US and European regions illustrate successful gender equalities, some countries in the Arab world and sub-Saharan Africa still pose significant challenges to the attainment of global gender equality.