According to New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof, gender inequality is something that needs to end, while education for women is becoming increasingly important, reported the Stanford Daily, the daily newspaper serving Stanford University.

The Daily reported on a talk Kristof gave at the school, at which he said that educating women can solve some of the problems in impoverished countries, while also inspiring changes regarding other social issues for women across the world.

Earning a business degree is one way women can work to end the problem of gender inequality. By taking on high-level management jobs in the United States, women could contribute to more equal treatment of the sexes in this country, which Kristof said should be a priority.

"We don’t have the moral authority to criticize or offer our aid to other countries unless we can clean up our act in the U.S.," Kristof said. "It is an issue of a different order or magnitude in other aspects of the world."

According to ScienceBlogs, ending gender inequality could increase math skills for everyone. Typically, women have been thought to be inferior to men at math, but as socially determined gender inequality diminishes, math scores rise for both men and women.