Many reasons are attributed to unemployment in general. However, it is argued that digital divide and gender discrimination are the two formidable stumbling blocks on the way of what social scientist call ‘employable-employment’ balance.
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To what extent do you agree or disagree with this view?

It is true that there is imbalance in the number of employable people and the available opportunities. But this dichotomy, in my opinion, could not be attributed greatly to digital or gender divide. Since they are a force to reckon with, it looks hard for me to fully disagree with the view anyway.

Let us look at the common factors that go into what our social scientists call employable-employment imbalance. Primarily it is the size of the population. For example when the number of people who get employable and the number of employment created differ, obviously, there will be unemployment. Secondly, poor quality education, weaker national status, lack of industrialization, haphazard distribution of development between rural and urban areas and the like are the other factors that lead to this imbalance. I think all these reasons are as formidable as gender and digital divide.

For example, digital divide is depriving great number of people of their opportunities. But if we look at the statistics, we can see that digitally qualified people and the number employment created in the digital world do not go in line. That is, there is disparity too. So is the case with gender divide. For example, there is gender preference when private sector, the biggest employment provider, recruits people. Here too, those who suffer from this problem are negligibly small. And studies show that in many organization women outnumber men.

In short, gender and digital divide are two blocks, like any other impediment that stands on the way of employment employable balance. Therefore, it is difficult agree with the view that they are in any way formidable or whatever.

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