Severe gender inequality is a challenge to development because ...

[nenivikky]

Severe gender inequality is a challenge to development because
 
  A) it leads to smaller family sizes, and families with fewer child laborers cannot earn enough money to pay for their rent and utilities.
  B) it is associated with higher literacy rates, higher economic vitality, and lower infant mortality rates.
  C) it excludes men from the informal economy, wasting a major economic asset.
  D) it severely limits the economic and social mobility of women, as well as families that are headed by women.
  E) it does not allow men and boys the freedom to attend the schools and seek the jobs that are best suited to them.

Question 2

In terms of the GII, most African countries have
 
  A) rates far below the United States and Western Europe.
  B) rates that exceed the United States and Western Europe owing to African investment in centers of higher learning.
  C) rates that are greater than the United States but less than Europe.
  D) core-periphery models.
  E) weak national economies.

[joshraies]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: A