The video tells us if female are empowered, for examples to help them access education and reduce barriers they may encounter in workplace, would improve their workplace performance and result in rising productivity within countries. Besides, highly-educated female can nurture their children better. High female participation in workplace increase household income and finally influences economic development positively.
 
Nevertheless, many countries overlook gender as one of the indicators to measure economic growth. Gender inequality has been a serious problem in most of the developing countries, even in some of the developed countries. Division of household labour has been the core of gender disparities in societies. Women are treated to take the responsibility of bearing household work while men work outside to contribute in economic activities. Female opportunities to work outside are restrained by traditional practices or customs (that is the stereotype between men and women). These unbalanced distributions of duties actually have great influences on not only gender itself but also on economic development. When women have less opportunity to participate in paid work, their contribution to economic growth within the countries is also small (Borjas, 2009).

 

Maybe we can have a look into how gender inequality and economic activities relate together!