Gender Equality and Women Empowerment

Throughout centuries gender inequality has been a crucial downfall to women’s education. Till this day women in multiple countries still such as Cambodia, Pakistan, and Morocco are denied the opportunity to pursue an education and are even persecuted if they attempt to. In other countries like Guatemala, poverty is the main factor as to why women are likely to not receive an education because families would rather send their sons simply because he is a boy. Many women in these countries are illiterate because boys are favored to receive an

Throughout the world’s history, education has proved to be a major focal point for society. With education as a tool, shoddy Hunter-Gathers turned into thriving communities, and average children have grown up to be brilliant inventors. Even though education is mandatory by law, many countries have seemed to turn their back on the concept. Afghanistan, a country in South Asia, is one of them. Education is specifically denied from girls, aged anywhere from 5-16 years. Many reasons like the Taliban, increasing poverty, and discrimination have blocked girls from receiving an education. Nevertheless, there are possible solutions that can be enacted to help these girls. This paper will center on the idea of the barriers of girls education and

Approximately 75 million children around the world have no opportunity to attend primary school. Of the 75 million, most of them are girls due to tradition or parents that hold them back from attending ("Main Navigation"). Other factors that affect children from going to school is because of conflicts and wars that result in schools to be destroyed and families to flee the country. Lack of education is a growing crisis due to many factors in developing countries but it has the power pull a country out of poverty and make them economically stable and attract other countries to trade, therefore it should be seen as a priority. Developed countries are involved to help countries increase their education because every child should have the

There are not many places in the world where women or girls are not allowed to attend school currently but is still an issue in poorer countries such as Somalia, India, and Niger. According to the World Education Blog, in Somalia, 95 percent of the poorest females aged from seven to sixteen have never been to school and the average years of education for a female between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two is 0.3 years. Unfortunately, the right to education is not the only issue they have to deal with. Gender discrimination also plays a huge role in their educational struggles. According to a survey publication from the Global Campaign for Education, “Gender Discrimination in Education”, one in ten primary school girls reported being unhappy being a girl. It was also reported that that number doubled to every one in five once they reached secondary school. Further along the the survey stated that In comparison to boys, only one percent in primary school and three percent in secondary school reported being unhappy as a boy. The reasons that these girls reported for their

However, the rate of transition to secondary school is extremely low: just 32% in 2008, compared to 40% for boys. The proportion of girls completing a full secondary education was a drastically low 0.8% in 2010. Almost 1.2 million adolescent girls are out of school. The pattern is repeated for women in adult and non-formal education, with only 55% making it to mainstream school. In another macro perspective all these countries have in common is that they are low developed countries and developing countries which means either working class or middle class and they don 't have the enough money for education. These countries don’t have the money to educate everyone even when they decide to educate people they going to educate the men’s because they are believed to be the more dominant gender.

Throughout the past few decades, the gender inequality discourse have became a dominant feature of international, national and local policy debate on the subject of economic development. This policy concern has emerged as an area of scholarly research which seeks to show that improving gender equity leads to economic growth.

Despite the UNESCO’s program “Education for All” established with the main aim of providing free primary school education, yet many children still drop out from school (Yuthas, Epstein, & Kristi, 2012, p. 1). There are several reasons why children from developing countries decide to drop out of school, some of which are: poor road infrastructure and means of transportation; high cost of books, uniforms, exam fees and transportation fee. In addition to the above mentioned, job

There are roughly three and a half billion girls on planet earth. If each one of these women had an education, one can only imagine the potential of the world. Violent conflicts in developing countries disrupt girls access to education by creating a dangerous learning environment and lead to future problems within countries due to the lack of women with an education. This disruption causes even more political and social destruction within countries and can carry on into global matters making this a worldwide problem that impacts everyone.

All over the world children are going to school, they are learning and making friends. In some parts of the world some children are denied their basic human right of education. In Pakistan girls are not allowed to go to school. Someone who experienced this first hand and then wrote a book about it is Malala. She encouraged many to speak up on this topic the way she did. At the end of her book Malala says, “This is my dream. Education for every boy and girl in the world. To sit down on a chair and read my book with all my friends at school is my right” (Yousafzai 313). Just like it is Malala’s right it is also every boy’s and girl’s right, but still in parts of the world girls are denied the right to education and to attend school.

Women have struggled to achieve gender equal rights. Feminist solidarity raises awareness of women’s issues and it gives empowerment to women to continue to fight from inequality and race discrimination. Maia Kotrosits states, “It was not just that we were different . . . it was that we each had a tremendous stake in our difference,” which indicates that women of different races have united to address the problems that they have experienced (Kotrosits 134). Consequently, they will continue to fight for their own equal rights because they deserve to be treated the same as men. The image by Dan Wynn conveys feminist solidarity against discrimination and violence against women, by displaying two women of different races with matching outfits, body language, and expression.

Women's empowerment has become a significant topic of discussion in development and economics . it also refer to the increasing and the improvement of economic and social and legal rights to women to ensure that women have equal right . is it essential to Empower women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors in order to build stronger economies and to achieve internationally agreed goals for development and sustainability, and improve the quality of life for community as whole .

For almost three decades Afghanistan has been the setting of ruthless wars. The Soviet occupation and the Taliban takeover has not only gridlocked country socially, it has also caused it to regress. Prior to the occupation of these treacherous groups, Afghanistan had a relatively liberal outlook, with a hopeful progression of women’s rights. More specifically; “Afghan women made up 50% of government workers, 70% of school teachers, and 40% of doctors in Kabul.” In recent years the public life of women has been completely effaced due to the effects of war and the Taliban regime. They are isolated, confined to their homes and masked with an all-encompassing burqa; prisoners in a country they call their “home”. In the country one calls

Elizabeth further then went to describe that “in our current population, HeForShe is about moving the 3.2 million men, one man at a time, across that line, so that ultimately, men can stand alongside women and be on the right side of history, making gender equality a reality in the 21st century”. (TED) Now in order to direct her language to the right audience, Elizabeth must choose the level of language that best suits her audience and who her target audience is. Since she’s presenting her vision and advocating for change to both men and women, with a variety of intellectual levels, we can see that Elizabeth uses a transparent language that the audience has a whole can engage and learn from.

Women’s participation in sports has a long history. It is a history marked by division and discrimination but also filled with major accomplishments by female athletes and important advances for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. It is important to know how women impacted sports and opened doors for new possibilities. The principal objective of Title IX is to stop the use of federal money to support sex discrimination in education programs and to provide individual citizens helpful protection against those practices (Casey). Over the past 40 years, women sports have changed based on broken records, superior performance, and equality.

More than 110 million children in the world are not in school. Among them two third of it accounts for girls.