Gender can affect people's life chances in various ways - for example, if you're a woman you are paid less for doing the same job as a man, this is called the gender pay gap, which is a huge uprising issue of our modern world. Also, in some Asian and Middle Eastern countries women are given less rights than men e.g. education struggle - just because they're women. This gives women less chances to be independent in their life in the way that men easily can be.