Gender and the life cycle

The are five stages of gender and life cycle in the world such as early childhood,the middle years,adolescence,adulthood and old age.In Africa their poverty is very high,so there are a big gap between the people in Africa.The gap also make the gender and the life cycle different for the people in Africa.The different gender and life cycle create the general discrimination between the society of the Africa people.

For early childhood,modern diagnostic tools for pregnancy have made it possible to determine a child's sex in the earliest phase.
Where there is a clear economic or cultural preference for sons, the misuse of these techniques can facilitate female foetal.An unusually high proportion of male births and male children under five in Asia,notably in China and India,suggest sex selective foetal and infanticide in the world's two most populous countries despite intervention to eradicate these practices in both countries.Motherless newborns are between 3 and 10 times more likely to die than newborns whose mothers survive.

For the middle years,a principal focus of the middle years of childhood and adolescence is ensuring access to ,and complete of ,quality primary and secondary education.It is mostly girl who suffer from educational disadvantages.For 100 boys out of school, there are 115 girls in the same situation.Although the gender gap has been closing steadily over the past few decades,nearly 1 out of every 5 girl who enrol in primary school in developing countries does not complete a primary education.Recent estimates indicate that an average of only 43 per cent of girls of the appropriate age in the developing world attend secondary school.

For the adolescence globally, 36 percent of women aged 20-24 were married or in union before they reached their 18th birthday,most commonly in South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.It is estimate that more than 130 million women and girls alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation,cutting.In parts of Africa and the Caribbean, women aged 15-24 are up to six times mores likely to be infected with HIV than young men their age.

For adulthood,it is widely estimated that women make up the majority of the world's poor, comprise nearly two thirds of the people who are illiterate and,along with children, account for 80 per cent of civilian casualties during armed conflict.When women are locked out of decisions regarding household income and other resources , they and their children are more likely to receive less food, and to be denied essential services and education.It is estimated that each year more than half a million women roughly one women every minute dies as a result of pregnancy complications and childbirth some 99 per cent of all maternal deaths occurs in developing countries,with over90 per cent of those in Africa and Asia.

For old age, experience has shown that children rights are advanced when programme that seek to benefit children and families also include elderly women.Elderly women may face double discrimination on the basis of both gender and age. Women tend to live longer than men, may lack control of family resources and faces discrimination from inheritance and property laws. Grandmothers possess a great deal of knowledge and experience related to all aspects of maternal and child health and care.

The conclusion is,the age difference between the people and the society will contribute to worse of the general discrimination.The percentage show that the differences number of men and women also contribute to the general discrimination that is cause no cooperation between man and women.